Re: scan using safety.live.com

From: "SteveZ" <SteveZ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


Dave, I forgot to mention that the microsoft safety.live.com is a Beta version. my
regular antivirus is nav 2006 and my ad-aware are current also. the only place i get 1
virus is when running the scan. when scan completes it shows no viruses. i am not a
computer expert. i am not sure if this beta scan is false, since my regular scans find no
virus or spyware.if i use your suggestions will it replace my current nav and ad-aware? i
also ran the beta and nav and ad-aware onin safe mode and no viruses were found.

No it is NOT a replacement but a supplement. A fully installed application performs both
"On Access" scanning and "On Demand" scanning.

"On Access" scanning is scanning files as they are written or read from disk media. That is
a protection scenario.

"On Demand" scanning is telling an AV scanner to scan media. This is usually done after the
fact.

My Multi AV Scanning tool provides four different "On Demand" AV scanners. I implement
four different vendor scanners because one may catch what another may miss.

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm


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