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That's a nice little program, been looking for a replacement for RegCleaner as the developer has discontinued it and it has problems with dual core processors, have to set the affinity to force it to use one core, this one looks promising so far, :cheesy:oatman said:
rouge and oatman
You guys seem to know what you are talking about. a question again for you if I may. Windows Defender & AOL Sypwear, both run real time protection in the back round, should I only allow one of them to run, and if so which one?.
Or run the two live, but would this slow my PC down
Thanks.
You guys seem to know what you are talking about. a question again for you if I may. Windows Defender & AOL Sypwear, both run real time protection in the back round, should I only allow one of them to run, and if so which one?.
Or run the two live, but would this slow my PC down
Thanks.
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AOL has a bad rep with a lot of the Internet community, largely related to the software it bundles with its products and the difficulties of uninstalling it. My only personal experience with it was a laptop my sister bought a few years back that came bundled with AOL software and it was a nightmare to remove. Here is an article that illustrates some of the general feeling towards AOL
http://stopbadware.org/reports/reportdisplay?reportname=aol082706
As for their latest offerings, as I said b4 the Virus shield is based on Kasperski's definitions which is a top paid for product, the AntiSpyware shield I believe is based on CA's Pest Patrol which is also a respected product, therefore they should be capable products if you can live with AOL itself.
Windows defender has pretty tame reviews, and imho would be classed as a mediocre product, but I do currently run it on both my XP machines, offhand I'm not sure what the memory usage is as it's not on this machine, will have a look in the morning. I run a Gig of RAM on my trading machines so resources are not too much of an issue.
Defender appears to run 2 background processes, MsMpEng.exe and MSASCui.exe together at rest they use about 2Meg of RAM but as time passes like most programs it can show a lot more, my peak mem usage shows the processes have at one time or another had 40Meg, prolly during an update and scanning phase
http://stopbadware.org/reports/reportdisplay?reportname=aol082706
As for their latest offerings, as I said b4 the Virus shield is based on Kasperski's definitions which is a top paid for product, the AntiSpyware shield I believe is based on CA's Pest Patrol which is also a respected product, therefore they should be capable products if you can live with AOL itself.
Windows defender has pretty tame reviews, and imho would be classed as a mediocre product, but I do currently run it on both my XP machines, offhand I'm not sure what the memory usage is as it's not on this machine, will have a look in the morning. I run a Gig of RAM on my trading machines so resources are not too much of an issue.
Defender appears to run 2 background processes, MsMpEng.exe and MSASCui.exe together at rest they use about 2Meg of RAM but as time passes like most programs it can show a lot more, my peak mem usage shows the processes have at one time or another had 40Meg, prolly during an update and scanning phase
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hello to all t2w members
i have just installed avast on my pc, ran a thorough scan and it picked up an infected file. the options were 'move to chest' OR 'delete'.
i chose 'move to chest' because that was recommended but would it have been ok to just delete the infected file??
the infected file was- win32:adware.gen
many thanks
c88
i have just installed avast on my pc, ran a thorough scan and it picked up an infected file. the options were 'move to chest' OR 'delete'.
i chose 'move to chest' because that was recommended but would it have been ok to just delete the infected file??
the infected file was- win32:adware.gen
many thanks
c88
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AVG Anti-Spyware (different to AVG Antivirus, one needs both) is very good.oatman said:
Charley, the name you gave was the type of suspected infection not the file infected ... I'd choose move to vault as some of these infections are not real and you may be removing a valid file.
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Charley, agree with Kiwi, unless you know exactly what it is you are deleting, it is always a good idea to move to the virus chest first whilst you determine what it is. I have seen the malware you discribe being discussed around the web. You may want to subscribe (free) to one of the specialist help forums such as
http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/index.php
where you can upload an HJT log,
http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/index.php
where you can upload an HJT log,
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Anyone?
sounds good:
NOD32 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
never heard of them before .. but I like the idea that it has low impact on system resources.
I use free stuff myself , AVG free and Ad-Aware free
but I hardly ever scan my system as I use my computer safely.
I use firefox browser with noscript plugin and I am meticulous about scanning email attachments before opening so I am pretty security conscious.
