Yup defender is almost useless.
Any Anti Virus may not get to Malware and other things that have
hidden themselves deep within the OS.
Avast used to have a feature that said "Do you Want to Do a Scan on Boot Up"
This is the only way tog et rid of deep down infections such as Tom
said by running a Boot Disk/CD with a Virus program Scanning your system.
Catches a lot of crap we don't know is there.
Stewart
At 11:05 AM 3/3/2010, you wrote:
*I hate to sound so obtuse, but are you suggesting that this infection is
not being detected by AVG or Windows Defender?
Randall
*
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 10:57 AM, tjpa <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mar 3, 2010, at 9:23 AM, Ranbo wrote:
>
>> *In other words, this virus, trojan or whatever it is could still be
>> lurking
>>
>> and hiding from AVG's ability to detect it? I also ran a full scan of
>> Windows Defender which didn't
>>
>
> That is why I pointed you to a Linux boot disk. Otherwise you can't escape
> root kits, etc.
>
>
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