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Great list, I am a big fan of Glary Utilities also, has a lot of nice features too it.
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Anyone use GMER?
GMER is great, I use that tool all the time, nice at finding hidden rootkits
I'll scan my XP machine with it and at a certain point it will reboot.
I gotta say, ComboFix really saved my butt recently. Got some kind of nasty that kept multiplying. Desktop wouldn't even show up, although I could get into it thru ctrl-alt-delete. I could still run MSE, MBAM and SAS but the problem wouldn't go away. I was ready to re-format.ComboFix - http://www.combofix.org/ - This is a great tool for cleaning up a system that is messed up to the point you can't run MBAM or anything else. After running this you should still run the other tools to clean up the left-overs.
Did you make sure system restore was turned off? Malware likes to hide there and come back. Also, I just ran ComboFix on my mother-in-law's computer over the weekend and it found but was unable to remove the new "Personal Anti-Virus" vundo variant. Not impressed at all. MBAM was able to take care of it just fine, after I disabled system restore and booted into safe mode and let it run for 30 minutes.
I gotta say, ComboFix really saved my butt recently. Got some kind of nasty that kept multiplying. Desktop wouldn't even show up, although I could get into it thru ctrl-alt-delete. I could still run MSE, MBAM and SAS but the problem wouldn't go away. I was ready to re-format.
Then I read about combofix here. It comes with a lot of dire warnings like don't use it unless you really know what you're doing, yadda, yadda, yadda. I read the instructions, it told me exactly what it would do. And yeah, it sounded kinda scary, not like running your typical AV, but in turning your trust over to a higher power. Cross your fingers and pray.
Reminded me of a few years ago I got a nasty and used something called "vundo be gone" or such. It said something along the lines of "This program will do things your OS won't like. It will cause a BSOD." Took a leap of faith to use it, but I was desperate.
I'll scan my XP machine with it and at a certain point it will reboot.
because you have either cd emulation, Securirom or your av scanner is still active
Heard about this for the first time today, and it looks like it could be a very important tool:
Microsoft Standalone System Sweeper
Honestly speaking None of these actually work if your pc gets infected by a trojan,malware or a virus..I am using Windows XP and whenever I had issues I had to format it completely to make sure my PC is all clean..
Seriously? Thanks for being a forum member for two days and then posting garbage. You're either a troll or an idiot.
If he is a troll, then he's automatically an idiot.
Microsoft released another tool beta, Windows Defender Offline Beta
Haven't used it yet, but it allows you to make a bootable CD, DVD, or USB key. It supposedly has the same engine as the Windows 8 version of defender, both anti-malware and anti-virus.
You shouldn't have to lose everything, just pull the drive and hook up to another computer to scan and backup your stuff. If you don't have a spare computer then you can boot from an Ubuntu Live CD and copy your files to an external drive.