Anti Malware

[Logan18]

OK, are there any free anti malware that are good programs out there? Which ones?

 

[froggyboy604]

Spybot-Search and Destroy by safer network
Spywarebaster
AVG free
Avast
Spyware doctor free edition

Comodo Fire wall

are all pretty good in my experience.

 

[ℓєσ gнσѕт]

@froggyboy604
None of those are anti-malware iirc.

Check out this little site, home to a few great programs,
http://www.malwarebytes.org/ - "Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware" being my program of choice for Windows systems.

Also check out Gimgak's site for learning to protect yourself,
http://bustedmalware.com/

For long term protection, may I suggest switching to Linux Mint 7?

 

[Gimgak]

Thanks for linking to my site Leo! -happy-

Also, I'd say malwarebytes anti malware is also what you'd want to use, will get everything done for you, although it does take some time for it to complete the scan.

 

[ℓєσ gнσѕт]

Oh yeah it does, longest scanner I had. It does a great job though, removed whatever I had (and trust me, with what I do in my freetime I had quite a bit on there).

If you like it, then buy it and support the developers ~cool~

 

[Pixel Pirate]

http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php

is what I use. Must trustworthy in my opinion too.

 

[froggyboy604]

@froggyboy604
None of those are anti-malware iirc.

Check out this little site, home to a few great programs,
http://www.malwarebytes.org/ - "Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware" being my program of choice for Windows systems.

Also check out Gimgak's site for learning to protect yourself,
http://bustedmalware.com/

For long term protection, may I suggest switching to Linux Mint 7?

I also use Malwarebytes. It is pretty fast.

Can you explain what is the difference between anti-mailware, anti-spyware, and anti-virus. They all seem to do the same thing?

 

[Gimgak]

Nope, different things, well I'll say pretty much the difference between anti virus and anti spyware:
Viruses are things like trojans, worms, etc and this is what anti-virus will find
anti-spyware will find things like zango crap, keyloggers, antivirus 2009 rogue software etc

 

[Pixel Pirate]

If you want something a little bit more trustable. You can also go to microsoft
http://www.microsoft.com/security/malwa ... fault.mspx

 

[Gimgak]

Going to microsoft for protection is like entrusting your money to Bernie Madoff -lol-
Seriously Malware Bytes Anti-Malware is safe and clean of any any malware. Some anti-virus protection softwares might flag it as such, but that is because it does a change in the registry during start up each time randomly to make it harder for malware to disable it like some do to your anti-virus software

 

[Pixel Pirate]

True, but it can remove some stuff too. But yea I would go with MBam.

 

[ℓєσ gнσѕт]

Microsoft's stuff has saved me a few times when I ran XP, but I wouldn't use it as my only protection. I also wouldn't use Mbam as my only protection either though, a mix will always be best.

 

[Tolken]

I just use AVG that has anti malware built in.

 

[Ryanplex]

http://www.techsupportalert.com/pc/security-tools.html

Thats a really good site. I just use comodo firewall, antivir, a-squared, superantispyware, ccleaner, easycleaner, auslogics registry defrag, and perfect disk 2008. All that stuff together plus always keeping everything up to date makes my computer work perfectly and i never ever had a problem in years.