

U.S. leads the world in botnet virus infection rates








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RE: idea
By dgingeri on 10/14/2010 1:42:34 PM , Rating: 3
I do remember with some previous Windows XP machines (I'm a professional corporate support tech, so I see a lot of machines with various problems) that the MRT did automatically remove some things and put entries in the event log about them.

In one particular case, I had a laptop user who was away from the office most of the time. (He lived in Minnesota and the office was in Denver.) He came in complaining about slowness and popups during a convention. He didn't need his laptop for the day, so he wanted me to clean it up. I went through and ran spybot and AV scans first. Those removed several things, but the slowness didn't go away. I then found that automatic updates hadn't run for several months, so I installed the updates. The slowness disappeared, so I looked in the event log. it listed that it had removed 3 things that the spybot and AV scans had missed, but it never popped up anything to tell me that.

So, the tool at least used to automatically remove some things without notice. I never knew there was a way to run it manually until today.

RE: idea
By sprockkets on 10/14/10, Rating: -1
RE: idea
By Luticus on 10/14/2010 3:13:13 PM , Rating: 2
see, in my experiance it's the other way around. personally though i use microsoft security essentials. best there is as far as i can tell.

RE: idea
RE: idea
By Luticus on 10/14/2010 4:46:37 PM , Rating: 2
lol the rate down is probably due to your reference to spybot as useless. spybot may not be the end-all be-all it used to be back in the day but useless is a bit of a stretch. honestly i've seen it be fairly effective with detection and removal.

RE: idea
RE: idea
By dark matter on 10/15/2010 2:53:09 AM , Rating: 4
Don't you just love it when people have to resort to calling other people "losers" in their debates. I always find it gives the poster that air of credibility they wouldn't normally get if they merely presented a reasoned and referenced argument.

RE: idea
By 0ldman on 10/15/2010 6:33:34 PM , Rating: 1
If you rely on one antispyware application then you are still infected.

It is that simple.

Nothing out there finds everything.

These little spyware kiddies just keep pooping new bugs and the companies out there trying to get rid of them just can't keep up. Spybot finds some, MalwareBlaster finds some, SuperAntispyware, Trendmicro, MS, AVG, Sophos, etc...

Norton and McAfee seem to be pretty good at separating people from their money, but not much more.

There really isn't a light duty antivirus program anymore and I haven't found one that catches everything yet.

RE: idea
By chick0n on 10/15/10, Rating: -1
RE: idea
With your attitude you wouldn't even cut the grade flipping burgers.

RE: idea
By Iketh on 10/18/2010 2:50:42 AM , Rating: 2
the reason these windows add-ons run in the background and dont notify you of anything is to prevent MS from being sued again for monopolization, as they did with Internet Explorer

if Defender and Malicious Software Removal were "up front and personal" with the end-user, MS would be right back in court

