How To Never Get A Virus, or Remove One

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  1. Arash

    Arash Level I

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    Virus Scanners
    I decided to make an official virus scanner thread so people would stop making threads like HeLp KeLlOgGeR!!! Or ViRuS!!!” So if anyone needs help removing a virus they can come to this thread and seek help from others.

    In addition I was thinking we could make a virus scanner list so if someone needs to know some names of good virus scanners they can run through the list and find some they like.


    WARNING: Never get Norton Anti-Virus. It sticks on to your computer. The only thing I have succesfully removed it with is MoveOnBoot.

    List of Downloadable Antivirus Programs

    Download Avira AntiVir Personal - Free Antivirus 8.1.00.295 - Free, effective protection against computer viruses - Softpedia

    Download avast! 4 Professional Edition 4.8.1201 Free Trial - Complete ICSA certified antivirus package for small office, home office - SOHO - Softpedia

    SpywareBlaster

    Download AVG Free Edition 8.0 Build 101.1327 Free Trial - A free antivirus tool for protection against computer viruses - Softpedia

    Free Antivirus Software Downloads: Remove Spyware and Adware - Trial Versions

    AVG Anti-Virus and Internet Security - Download AVG Trial Versions for Free

    Download BitDefender Antivirus Plus 10.2 Final Free Trial - antivirus protection, data confidentiality, active content control and Internet filtering - Softpedia

    Free Antivirus Software Trial: Free Download from ESET

    List of Downloadable Anti-Spyware Programs

    Ad-Aware @ Lavasoft - The Original Anti-Spyware Company - Lavasoft

    Webroot Spy Sweeper - Free software downloads and reviews - CNET Download.com

    The home of Spybot-S&D!

    Download Spyware Doctor 6.0.0.354 Free Trial - Award Winning Spyware Removal & Protection - Softpedia

    KeyScrambler Personal - Free software downloads and reviews - CNET Download.com

    XoftSpy SE spyware removal - Free Download

    Computer tweakers such as registry cleaners, defragmentation programs, and CCleaner

    Eusing Free Registry Cleaner: Safely scan and repair registry problems - Spyware FREE.

    Download CCleaner 2.09.600 - FileHippo.com

    Download Defraggler 1.02.078 RC2 - FileHippo.com

    Download Recuva 1.15.327 - FileHippo.com

    Suspect a file of having a virus? Upload the file and scan it with one of the three websites below.

    Online malware scan

    VirusTotal - Free Online Virus and Malware Scan

    http://www.kaspersky.com/remoteviruschk.html

    Scan You Computer Online

    Sygate Online Services

    Protection against Malware like Trojans, Worms, Dialer, Spyware in one program! a-squared Anti-Malware (A2) and Mamutu - Malware scanner and remover software

    List of Sandbox Programs

    Returnil Virtual System - Simple, Smart and Strong Approach to PC Safety - Returnil

    Sandboxie - Sandbox software for application isolation and secure Web browsing

    Having trouble deleting a virus scanner (NAV)? Go to the core files and delete it on the next reboot with MoveOnBoot!

    MoveOnBoot download and review - move or delete files on next reboot from SnapFiles

    (WARNING THIS IS NOT A VIRUS SCANNER.)

    Finally, I wolud like to say if you are still using Internet Explorer then come out of the stone age and get Firefoxtoday.
     
  2. Icegoten

    Icegoten Level III

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    Its also wise that after you have downloaded some things and you see changes in your computer to run a full scan overnight. Full scan is better than quick scan because quick scan passes alot of files and folders.
     
  3. skeptic65

    skeptic65 Newbie

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    I just had to do system recovery on my labtop due to a virus. That SUCKED!
     
  4. Zer0

    Zer0 Level IV

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    haha, winN00bz >:)
    Linux ftw, I've pwned many Windows viruses in my time, and counting. I never have to worry about running Windows executables.
     
  5. Arash

    Arash Level I

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    Linux has absolutely no compatibility with anything at all, that is why you use Java to write programs instead of VB6. Java probably required 2 to 3 times as much code.