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 Rulker   United States. July 06 2012 05:37. Posts 1402
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Hey TL, recently I caught a virus on my computer (malware or something, I really dont know) and had to reinstall windows because I don't know how to deal with them. I'm kind of newbie with computers and had some bad Anti-Virus that somehow was on my computer ( I don't remember putting it on there ).


I need some help, and I was wondering what the best free anti-virus software of combination of free anti-virus software is the most effective? Also would it protect me from generally most virus's?
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 HoMM   Estonia. July 06 2012 05:42. Posts 561
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Microsoft Security Essentials for real-time protection, Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware for on-demand scans.
Enjoy. (:
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 Rulker   United States. July 06 2012 05:43. Posts 1402
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Thanks~ Does MSE scan your downloads?
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 ReketSomething   United States. July 06 2012 06:09. Posts 4030
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Mse and mbam ftw! Used to use a lot of other crap when I realized these are the best!
I love Jaedong! :3
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 MrF   United States. July 06 2012 08:10. Posts 312
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i just use MSE and it works fine, i guess Malware bytes would be good to have as well but its not really needed.
HunterXHunter is awesome
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  NeMeSiS3   Canada. July 06 2012 23:03. Posts 2969Profile Blog # 
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=350042

"Recommended Downloads Thread"

Here's the piece you need from it (so far)

Anti-Virus: (rather easy to understand, choose your poison, I recommend Malwarebytes)
+ Show Spoiler +
Avast
Microsoft Security Essentials
Avira
Malwarebytes
AVG


Anti-Virus supplements
+ Show Spoiler +
RKill: + Show Spoiler +
used for killing "known" malware processes, note the quoted text, it isn't full proof but it is a viable option to stop malicious processes.

Super Anti-Spyware: + Show Spoiler +
Not confirmed by myself. If someone can confirm it's application (a second user) that would be fantastic, I have faith from previous posts this is applicable. It is described to "find things most other anti-spyware programs don't)

TDSSKiller:+ Show Spoiler +
This program, developed by Kapersky, is used to detect and remove "rootkits" (note, wikipedia rootkits if you do not understand what they are, very useful program)

Hijackthis!:+ Show Spoiler +
This is a "Startup Process Analyzer", it is to be used with a specific website(http://hijackthis.de/)



If you ever have any further needs for software or specific questions (looking for software) related to the thread, please post them or PM me and I will headline it and look for a solution (as will anyone else keeping tabs, as was done with user "gruff").

Please refrain from posting for software/program related help outside of that specific thread, it's community managed so it should hold all of your answers, I am trying to remove the clutter and combining it into a single usable thread so we don't get multiple threads, such as this, all over the forum.

Thanks in advance.

Last edit: 2012-07-06 23:05:56
FoTG fighting!
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 mahnini   United States. July 06 2012 23:15. Posts 6772
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http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=109597

this should help
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 maritini   Greece. July 06 2012 23:31. Posts 121
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Whatever you do stay away from Norton. I had a lot of problems with it...

Kaspersky (internet security) is the best in my opinion and its not even close. The only "problem" is it aint free.
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  JingleHell   United States. July 06 2012 23:46. Posts 11262Profile Blog # 

On July 06 2012 23:31 maritini wrote:
Whatever you do stay away from Norton. I had a lot of problems with it...




Misinformation. Norton is rock solid these days, with excellent low-profile features. It used to instill fear in people, but now it's one of the only subscription AVs worth paying for.
http://jinglehelltech.blogspot.com -- Pics of my rig in Profile
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 EdenPLusDucky   Singapore. July 06 2012 23:54. Posts 566
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Norton still classifies under scareware, but yes they are really good and have been really good since 2010.
Did the gas knock everyone out? Nope, just Jensen.
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  JingleHell   United States. July 07 2012 00:16. Posts 11262Profile Blog # 

On July 06 2012 23:54 EdenPLusDucky wrote:
Norton still classifies under scareware, but yes they are really good and have been really good since 2010.


Uhm, I haven't seen anything scareware-esque out of them in quite a few years, and they've been solid since 08-09 or so.
http://jinglehelltech.blogspot.com -- Pics of my rig in Profile
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 Holy_AT   Austria. July 07 2012 00:25. Posts 705
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I like avast <3
It is low profile, it is free and I liked it that much that I even bought a licence !
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 TheToast   United States. July 07 2012 01:54. Posts 4804
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On July 06 2012 23:46 JingleHell wrote:

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On July 06 2012 23:31 maritini wrote:
Whatever you do stay away from Norton. I had a lot of problems with it...




Misinformation. Norton is rock solid these days, with excellent low-profile features. It used to instill fear in people, but now it's one of the only subscription AVs worth paying for.


Further misinformation

Norton is crap considering that there are equally as good alternatives that are free

Having worked with SAVCE and SEP11 (corporate versions of norton, well norton is actually a consumer version of the corporate product) I can tell you it's pretty lame. I ran into countless issues where Symmantec was entirely unable to recognize, let alone remove, obvious Malware like the "PC Antivirus 2010" that got big for a while. And this was like weeks after this stuff had been floating around on a completely up-to-date client. Not that the free options are much better, but they are free and most perform equally as well (though most will have more detections). Certainly not worse anyway.

It makes sense in a corporate enviroment, as the server side client management options and monitoring tools are very handy. But for a home user you're an idiot if you pay for Norton. Might as well be flushing money down the toilet.

Also, this is like the 10,000th time we've had this discussion, so I'm going to be a grumpy Toast and scold the OP for not searching first :S
I like the way the walls go out. Gives you an open feeling. Firefly's a good design. People don't appreciate the substance of things. Objects in space. People miss out on what's solid.
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  NeMeSiS3   Canada. July 07 2012 01:54. Posts 2969Profile Blog # 

On July 07 2012 00:16 JingleHell wrote:

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On July 06 2012 23:54 EdenPLusDucky wrote:
Norton still classifies under scareware, but yes they are really good and have been really good since 2010.



Uhm, I haven't seen anything scareware-esque out of them in quite a few years, and they've been solid since 08-09 or so.


I've personally noticed my Norton 2010 (should upgrade) warns me about a lot of things that aren't actually malicious, other than that, it's a huge step up from predecessors, plus that's not even the latest model, when this runs out (my subscript) I'ma buy 2012/13
FoTG fighting!
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  JingleHell   United States. July 07 2012 02:43. Posts 11262Profile Blog # 

On July 07 2012 01:54 NeMeSiS3 wrote:

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On July 07 2012 00:16 JingleHell wrote:

On July 06 2012 23:54 EdenPLusDucky wrote:
Norton still classifies under scareware, but yes they are really good and have been really good since 2010.


Uhm, I haven't seen anything scareware-esque out of them in quite a few years, and they've been solid since 08-09 or so.



I've personally noticed my Norton 2010 (should upgrade) warns me about a lot of things that aren't actually malicious, other than that, it's a huge step up from predecessors, plus that's not even the latest model, when this runs out (my subscript) I'ma buy 2012/13


Meh, mine gives me performance related warnings, but aside from that, I don't tend to see any issues personally. Might just be performance related.

Although it's always funny when I forget to turn it on silent before a bench run, and get "High CPU Usage by Prime95" alerts...

No shit, sherlock...
http://jinglehelltech.blogspot.com -- Pics of my rig in Profile
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  NeMeSiS3   Canada. July 07 2012 02:51. Posts 2969Profile Blog # 

On July 07 2012 02:43 JingleHell wrote:

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On July 07 2012 01:54 NeMeSiS3 wrote:

On July 07 2012 00:16 JingleHell wrote:

On July 06 2012 23:54 EdenPLusDucky wrote:
Norton still classifies under scareware, but yes they are really good and have been really good since 2010.


Uhm, I haven't seen anything scareware-esque out of them in quite a few years, and they've been solid since 08-09 or so.


I've personally noticed my Norton 2010 (should upgrade) warns me about a lot of things that aren't actually malicious, other than that, it's a huge step up from predecessors, plus that's not even the latest model, when this runs out (my subscript) I'ma buy 2012/13



Meh, mine gives me performance related warnings, but aside from that, I don't tend to see any issues personally. Might just be performance related.

Although it's always funny when I forget to turn it on silent before a bench run, and get "High CPU Usage by Prime95" alerts...

No shit, sherlock...


Yeah, it drains the CPU like a motherfucker haha, like I said, I don't have the latest addition so I'm not an expert, it just always claims my downloads are malicious (or atleast 1 out of every 10) which is a fairly high ratio, then I check them and they're not.

FoTG fighting!
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  JingleHell   United States. July 07 2012 03:03. Posts 11262Profile Blog # 
Nah, Norton is fine on the CPU, it just bitches about other things using a lot of it when they're intended to. Like benchmarks.

Norton only causes discernible slowdown when it's doing something big and active, which generally only happens if you tell it to.
http://jinglehelltech.blogspot.com -- Pics of my rig in Profile
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  NeMeSiS3   Canada. July 07 2012 03:24. Posts 2969Profile Blog # 
Really, I find that my CPU usage jumps 15% when I have it running, dunno what to say there haha, I'll take your word for it though, you're better versed in this then me.
FoTG fighting!
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 TheToast   United States. July 07 2012 03:29. Posts 4804
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On July 07 2012 03:03 JingleHell wrote:
Nah, Norton is fine on the CPU, it just bitches about other things using a lot of it when they're intended to. Like benchmarks.

Norton only causes discernible slowdown when it's doing something big and active, which generally only happens if you tell it to.


Knowing that you pay for your anti-virus software, I really can't take anything you say seriously anymore lol.

Seriously though, there is no reason. Norton's home version does not do anything that free antivirus cannot do, and Symmantec's products really aren't better. At least that was my experience supporing 350-400 computers in an enterprise environment (after becoming the go-to virus removal guy I did a lot of it T_T )
I like the way the walls go out. Gives you an open feeling. Firefly's a good design. People don't appreciate the substance of things. Objects in space. People miss out on what's solid.
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  JingleHell   United States. July 07 2012 03:56. Posts 11262Profile Blog # 

On July 07 2012 03:29 TheToast wrote:

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On July 07 2012 03:03 JingleHell wrote:
Nah, Norton is fine on the CPU, it just bitches about other things using a lot of it when they're intended to. Like benchmarks.

Norton only causes discernible slowdown when it's doing something big and active, which generally only happens if you tell it to.



Knowing that you pay for your anti-virus software, I really can't take anything you say seriously anymore lol.

Seriously though, there is no reason. Norton's home version does not do anything that free antivirus cannot do, and Symmantec's products really aren't better. At least that was my experience supporing 350-400 computers in an enterprise environment (after becoming the go-to virus removal guy I did a lot of it T_T )


My wife pays for it because she likes things that she sets up and ignores, and she has shitty luck. Honestly, with how little she uses her computer at home, and the fact that she manually cleaned it the last two times she had issues, I don't understand it myself.

Of course, some idiotic "don't know why you pay" elitism is just babble for "I must be smarter than you because I spend more time or use less lightweight things with similar performance"

Norton isn't exactly expensive for a home license, doesn't require any management, and it's lightweight and convenient. If you're willing to pay a (small) fee for that convenience, that's no more of a reason to try and discredit someone than say... bragging about your tons and tons of experience that we have no means of verifying?
http://jinglehelltech.blogspot.com -- Pics of my rig in Profile
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