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re: System hijacked by malware?
Saturday, April 12, 2008 at 6:59 am
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Posted by cc (11 messages posted)

Do not download Kapersky Internet Security 7 due to it is a "resource-hog" and leaves your Temp folder in a complete mess. Avast detects some false-positives and doesn’t detect droppers, so I would use AVG Free like the majority do.

On Friday, April 11, 2008 at 6:42 pm, Gill wrote:
>I've tried using this, "AVG Anti-Rootkit Free" and scanned twice (safe and normal
>mode) with no root-kit malware found a few hours ago, I'll try Sophos right now just
>to be safe.
>
>By the way, I've been using Avast (4.8) Pro all these years, should I switch to
>Kapersky Internet Security 7?
>
>Which one is more robust?

Written in response to:: re: System hijacked by malware? (Gill: Friday, April 11, 2008 at 6:42 pm)

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All messages in this thread [show all]

System hijacked by malware? (Gill: Fri, Apr 11, 2008, 7:50 am)

re: System hijacked by malware? (MartinM: Fri, Apr 11, 2008, 9:56 am)

re: System hijacked by malware? (Gill: Fri, Apr 11, 2008, 1:45 pm)

re: System hijacked by malware? (MartinM: Fri, Apr 11, 2008, 2:10 pm)

re: System hijacked by malware? (Gill: Fri, Apr 11, 2008, 6:39 pm)

re: System hijacked by malware? (MartinM: Sat, Apr 12, 2008, 6:07 am)

re: System hijacked by malware? (cc: Fri, Apr 11, 2008, 11:17 am)

re: System hijacked by malware? (Gill: Fri, Apr 11, 2008, 1:37 pm)

re: System hijacked by malware? (cc: Fri, Apr 11, 2008, 4:06 pm)

re: System hijacked by malware? (Gill: Fri, Apr 11, 2008, 6:42 pm)

re: System hijacked by malware? (cc: Sat, Apr 12, 2008, 6:59 am)

re: System hijacked by malware? (Gill: Fri, Apr 11, 2008, 7:35 pm)

re: System hijacked by malware? (cc: Sat, Apr 12, 2008, 6:52 am)

re: System hijacked by malware? (Gill: Sun, Apr 13, 2008, 10:42 am)

re: System hijacked by malware? (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Sat, Apr 12, 2008, 9:29 pm)

re: System hijacked by malware? (Gill: Sun, Apr 13, 2008, 10:46 am)

re: System hijacked by malware? (Selim Junz: Mon, Apr 14, 2008, 1:45 pm)

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