Computer anti-virus, malware, spyware, trojan, etc. etc. scanners

  On 4/7/2012 at 7:45 PM, THIS IS MICHAEL JACKSON said:

  On 4/7/2012 at 7:38 PM, david said:

.. what AV do you use? I understand if the warning you're getting is like a false positive, like how generators/cracks can be detected as hacktools and what not, but that would assume you knew as much.. if I was in your shoes, I would be uncomfortable in disabling my antivirus when it's clearly giving me a warning i'm not sure of, just to run the program you're trying to get. I'm still inclined to believe there's a chance you're infecting your machine unwillingly by disabling it.

well, i think i know what i'm doing, i think... and yes, false positives... i'm using AVG, i've beeing using computers for more than 20 years, it doesn't mean anything, but it gives me the confidence, i'm almost sure if i had my computer infected i would notice it.

 

if when running an whole scan, with personalized scan level, so that it scans compressed files and system ones and whatnot, i get zero viruses found, could i be relieved?? is it enough?

i can say in my personal experience I have gotten viruses when I relied on avg free. I have worked on a number of customers computers who used paid AVG and still had infected their machines. I found out on my own machine by running some kaspersky scan tool, which eventually led me to the files that were fucking everything up and I got it fixed. I used to use kaspersky alot years ago because it seemed to have the highest detection rate at the time, but nowdays i don't know what's best. I just use MSE and some of the programs listed earlier, like autoruns just to see what's been modified.

I just use the Microsoft security essentials and the windows firewall. No problemos so far.

I find it hard to believe that somewhere out there exists people who write vast amounts of malicious software for seemingly no reason.

Usually software that doesn't do much either, besides be slightly annoying or wreck your desktop with porn links and spyware.

  On 4/8/2012 at 3:41 AM, fiznuthian said:

I find it hard to believe that somewhere out there exists people who write vast amounts of malicious software for seemingly no reason.

Usually software that doesn't do much either, besides be slightly annoying or wreck your desktop with porn links and spyware.

I know people who do it

They do it for fun or financial gain

Or both at once, and they sit there and amuse themselves watching the person struggle to fix the problem remotely

late response

dling MSE, did a ton of scans with some o' the tools you guys recommended me, nothing seems to show up that looks too suspicious...not sure how this problem happened at this point...but better safe than sorry.

Thanks!