Posted: 3/11/2005 5:23:26 PM EDT
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I work on computers every day that are full of virus, trojan, spyware etc. I want to hear about some other software programs that u guys use, im mainly working with xp and win2k. this is my routine for just about every computer i work on... i still have had several computer that are acting up after all these scans !! first thing i do it take the HD out of the computer, delete temp, and internet temp files and delete ALL XP restore files. then do a full system scan in my bench machine running panda 2005. It has virus, trojan and spyware removal detection. still while in the bench machine i run a full system scan with adaware se, remove what is found then run a squared remove trojan found. hook drive back into customers machine . boot into safe mode with networking support. install ewido, CA pestpatrol, spysubtract including cwshreeder, spysweeper, spybot, hijackthis. there so many i think that is it. update all of them run full system scans and delete or quartine as necessary! i occasionally have computers still acting up. the majority of them are using port 445 sending out tons of traffic on the network and i can find what virus is causing it. anyone have any other software suggestions, or have a different way of scanning etc?? thanks for any help you can give |
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Prevention is the best medicine. Here, and at my other job, computers with multipule users are only given limited accounts (XP Pro). The second account is for myself and the LT. If they are the only who uses that computer, then only one account w/ admin function. Maybe it would still be a good idea for the 2 accounts? Anyway, I manage the passwords. All computers are set to auto update AV, OS, and the antispy programs every night and scan every night. Once a week I run cleanup, scandisk (or check disk), defrag, manually update the OS and any other important stuff (AV). When I had the coputers with everyone who had access to them be able to use admin functions, man things got screwed up FAST. Lesson learned: they will screw it up and say “I didn’t do that” or “I have no idea what you are talking about”. Art in KY |
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Hey Cruze, I'm a member of a 4-man team that administers the Wide Area Network (WAN) for a Palliative Care Environment here in Southwest Florida. One of my primary responsibilites on the Network is Virus and Spyware Containment. We run Trend AntiVirus on our WAN however even with the latest pattern file (updates) it does not get rid of Spyware. As a result, I implement Lavasoft's Ad-Aware into all of the XP Images I deploy. For a good while we were having 100's of reported outbreaks that Trend would detect but was unable to clean, delete, or quarentine. By the time I had Ad-Aware implemented in most of the network (we're talking 600 workstations) and full system scans completed, the Spyware Traffic began to drop. It's been 6-months since then and we have no problems w/ Spyware and/or Viruses in our entire company! I stand by Lavasoft's Ad-Aware above any other Spyware removal utility out there. 
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I used to say that as well, until i tried Microsoft's AntiSpyware Beta (powered by Giant). It found stuff that Ad-Aware (and a few others) never did. |
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Ad-Aware Spybot S&D Norton AV Norton Internet Security Firefox is the browser and Thunderbird the E-mail client Usually works pretty well. I usually try to format every 12 months if I can for a total purge. Though right now it looks like it'll be 18 before it gets done this time. |
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I work on client's systems a lot, but since I connect to their desktop remotely, I don't have the luxury of tearing down the box, it's mostly "meatball surgery" to get them up and going. Most everything I've read and tried on spyware is that no single title gets 100% of it. Most reviews that try to quantify generally finding the top dog getting about 75% at best. General steps: * browser maintenance (usually IE), toss cache, cookies (I ask first, but at this point, they're not attached to any cookies), reset a number of settings to default. * Simply remove the extra toolbars from IE from within the browser * Quick trip through Add/Remove programs to toss known enemies * Ad-Aware (by Lavasoft) * Spy-Bot Search & Destroy * If I locate a particularly pesky spyware/malware, I'll used HijackThis! to remove it. HJ is excellent for removing that stuff, but not so good at knowing what's good and bad. So I recommend it only if you can see the threat...perhaps Ad-Aware or another title located something, but can't get rid of it...HJ is the ticket in that case. * I then go with Firefox, Opera, or Mozilla and teach them to use that. * If they need firewall/antivirus, I'll hook up AVG 7.0 plus ZoneAlarm. If they already have something, I may reinstall it and get the updates. Sometimes they'll have more than one "security/privacy" software title running with interesting results. * Quick look at SP2 if they have it to make sure it's playing nicely with the other kids. * If they have a router, I'll look at the router settings...more than once I've found a DMZ'd PC. * I wish I had the luxury of securing wireless connections, but it's not practical on my remote connection. |