The Gang of Five
Beyond the Mysterious Beyond => Hobbies and Recreation => Computer and Electronics => Topic started by: Nimrod on November 14, 2008, 08:28:52 AM
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I just got two new trojans on my pc, I don¥t know why this always happens to me :p I tried everything but nothing worked. I got a hint from a friend and he named a program called Spybot - Search and destroy. And see there it solved all of my problems. It found the trojans and after I said delete, they were deleted and never popped up again :-) So, just for these one who have problems with viruses or anything, here you can download and try it ;-)
http://download.chip.eu/en/SpyBot-Search-D....6.0_71994.html (http://download.chip.eu/en/SpyBot-Search-Destroy-1.6.0_71994.html)
EDIT: fixed topic title so it wasn't misleading
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Spybot isn't an antivirus program. It's an antispyware program, I believe. But yeah, I know of it. I used to use it before, although I don't anymore because I can't get it to work anymore for some reason. It is pretty good, yeah.
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Spybot is ok as an anti-spyware removal tool. It will not catch nor protect against viruses.
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I am sorry, explained that wrong.
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As a matter of fact, I have little trojan living its own life somewhere on my PC. It doesn't do anything that bothers me, but... it's a Trojan... Humans kill Trojans! :wow
So I'm testing your program Pat, and see if it will work out.
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Hope it works out for you. It sounds like a useful program. On windows I use to use the free version of adaware, whatever the current version is called, to scan for spyware.
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Holy crap! I download it, read the instructions, and it tells me that the red entriea are real threats, while the greens are something else I should read into further.
So I try the SpyBot out, and it finds 60 red entries and not a single green one! Where'd they all come from? I've only been active on the Internet since January!
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Same here, I got about 15 red treats.
But the Trojan's still there.
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Spybot won't catch/remove everything.
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I've heard it's best, if you want to catch as nearly everything as possible, to use more then 1 program. Use several since I"ve heard each will have some stuff it can't catch.
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I've got Norton Anti-Virus as well. I'm actually a little miffed that Norton missed as much as it did.
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At least you are catching most of them I'd guess.
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I just checked my pc for viruses today. Spybot found around 10. I deleted a few, but I couldn¥t delete the others. The program told me to restart. I did so and the viruses were deleted.
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I've used several programs over the day and scanned my whole PC.
I do not like what I see.
I really hope I'll find a way to get rid of the crap, otherwise I will have to consider a full system reset. :slap
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I've got Norton Anti-Virus as well. I'm actually a little miffed that Norton missed as much as it did.
Norton has gone downhill in recent years so I'm not surprised its missing things.