Mitch Haley <m...@voyager.net> writes: > About a year ago, a fellow who builds computers suggested I give > MalwareBytes' Anti-Malware a try. He was surprised that it only found > a couple of slightly unfriendly cookies on my machine, it had been > finding stuff on most of the used computers he'd tried it on. The free > version isn't continuous protection, but it's supposed to be pretty > good at search and destroy missions. > > http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php
This is a good program. I used it last week to clean up a co-worker's machine that had the "Malware Defense" infection. Also used Spybot. They both found different things, and it took half a dozen scan/clean cycles before the scans reported "no problems found" One odd thing, initially I could not install MalwareBytes. The installer program did nothing. I saw the process in the task list, but it was doing nothing and eventually vanished. I installed Spybot but it would not run with the same symptoms. I surmised that the malware was watching for executables running by name; I changed the name of the MalwareBytes installer exe and was able to run it and install it. After installing, I also had to change the names of the actual MalwareBytes executable and the Spybot executables in order to get them to run. I had to do all this in "Safe Mode" because the computer would slow to an unusable crawl in normal mode. Allan -- 1983 300D _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
