A look at Anti-Virus & Anti-Malware Programs

[crazed 9.6]

To sum everything up and a great look at some top quality anti-virus and anti-malware programs...
Here it is, with most quoted from RICH, a top fella in his field (ATE Field Service Engineer)

'These days what is common are PUPs... Potentially Unwanted Programs that gives adware which came in a bundle with something else'

'Run adwcleaner and junkware removal tool'

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/

'and then do additional cleanup with MalwareBytes Anti-Malware'

https://www.malwarebytes.org/

'then go check your browsers for any bad extensions.. remove if possible.. If none are seen, and you still have adware in your browsers, then you'll need to reset your browsers.. (google on how to reset them)..and also set homepage and search engine defaults'

'For virus/trojan detection that you can use in conjunction with any real time AV you have.
These scan tools don't offer real time protection but are good removal tools'

online scanner from eset

http://www.eset.com/us/online-scanner/

and/or kaspersky's avptool

http://www.kaspersky.com/antivirus-removal-tool?form=1

'After it's cleaned out... install (into firefox) a popup blocker adblock plus, adblock edge and another addon called noscript.
And also while at malwarebytes, look at it's free anti-exploit as another form of protection'

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/malwarebytes-anti-exploit/

That's it guys, all very good programs.
Thnx again everyone that helped with this :)


This was put together by a friend of mine and is a year or so old now, but are still very good programs.