Re: a-squared and Trojan Scan

From: "HartsVideo" <HartsVideo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


|
| Hi Dave,
|
| I still see anti-virus under Security, and I'm speaking about security and
| security programs, not an anti-virus since I don't have a virus that needs
| discussion in the anti-virus forum. If I went there, they'd probably tell me
| that I should have come to this forum.
|
| I purchased McAfee and I feel that it was a waste of good money. It never
| found any problems that other programs found, not even negligible risks that
| AdAware finds. It was also incompatible with the other programs that I have
| running so I removed it. I won't know if I'm specifically infected with a
| targeted infector that Stinger looks for unless I run Stinger. The same can
| be said of all the programs.
|
| So far I've been able to download and install a-squared. I want to also
| download and run TrojanScan at this url:
|
| http://www.windowsecurity.com/trojanscan/
|
| I now use Sygate firewall. I used to use Avast with Windows firewall but I
| couldn't use Sygate with Avast. So again it was a toss-up and I chose Sygate.
|
| Right now, I'm using the process of elimination. I doubt very much if I
| have a virus/trojan/worm in my pc but I want to know for sure so that I'll
| know that it isn't one of them in my pc causing my pc to creep along when the
| 6/15/06 updates from Microsoft have been installed. Once I've determined
| that, I'll know for sure that one or more of the updates aren't compatible
| with another program in my pc and I will do selective updating to determine
| which of the 10 updates it is. I backed up my entire C drive onto an
| external hard drive and I turned off System Restore until I've run all of the
| programs because the programs can't scan those files and they may contain a
| virus/trojan/worm that I'd put right back into my pc if I chose an existing
| restore point.
|
| It seems that my way of thinking isn't your way of thinking but what I do
| works for me. I've never had a virus/trojan/worm in my pc. Spybot and
| AdAware have found cookies that they've considered spyware and they've been
| eliminated. Up until yesterday, when the new updates were installed in my
| pc, I didn't have the problem with my pc creeping along. Someone else who
| spoke in this thread also mentioned that they caused him a problem. I would
| then assume that the update(s) contain something that isn't compatible with
| our systems.
|
| Denise

McAfee focuses on viruses and Trojans and some non-viral malware while Ad-aware SE focuses
on non-viral malware.

Two differnt products geared twords two different sub-types of malware.

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


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