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 Nov 18 2007, 07:31 PM
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Another question all of these free scans to check your computer out for anti-virus and malware are these safe? Guess this about all. not_anyone |
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Nov 18 2007, 08:10 PM
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Distinguished Member Group: Members Posts: 769 Joined: 20-May 07 Member No.: 131,989 |
F-Secure is legit if that's what you're asking. You might want to look into the timing out issue. Maybe there are known issues with F-Secure. The Windows firewall & Defender aren't strong enough to give decent protection. You should probably download a couple more spyware scanners like AVG Anti Spyware & Super Anti Spyware and use them as on demand scanners. Also you might want to try an online virus scanner as a backup like Eset.
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 Nov 18 2007, 11:03 PM
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 Just enough info to be armed & dangerous... Group: Members Posts: 2,055 Joined: 18-March 06 From: St Kilda, Dunedin. South Island. NZ Member No.: 59,805 |
Hi not_anyone
The first part of this article contains recommended and safe online scans - http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic34773.html More info here - http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic1628.html If you have more queries, please post back. Cheers -------------------- |
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Nov 21 2007, 04:45 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 89 Joined: 17-August 07 From: Virginia Member No.: 150,748 |
I put alot of this on my computer before and it really messed it up had to completely clean it up. I am checking with f-secure about those errors. I am still kinda curious about like pitstop,registry scans, are they safe or do they add unwanted files. I have used housecall before. Thanks for this forum it really is helping me alot. Nothing wrong with learning.
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Nov 23 2007, 09:52 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 89 Joined: 17-August 07 From: Virginia Member No.: 150,748 |
I was told not to start a new forum if my question pertained to the same matter. OK I went to hijackthis and ran the scan and of course I don't know if there is anything wrong with my computer. So I saved the scan results and I looked at them and dummy here did not know what she was looking at, and has know idea what any of it is. The good thing is all I did was save the scan, I hope. So what do I do now with the results.
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Nov 23 2007, 01:35 PM
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 Forum Addict Group: Global Moderator Posts: 20,843 Joined: 11-April 04 From: Chicago, Il. Member No.: 113 |
Interpretation of HJT logs should be left to people with a very specific skill set, such as our volunteer HJT Team here at BC. Read this guide for instructions for submitting your log, and remember that once you do submit it, you will need to refrain from making any changes to your computer that might invalidate the data the log provides:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic34773.html Regards, John -------------------- Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one should be silent.
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