I find AdwCleaner a good complement to MalwareBytes. It concentrates on known hitchhikers like Conduit and the phony toolbars, whether they qualify as viruses or not. It will flush out add-ons in browsers also.
Dan Covill ---------------------------------------- > Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2015 13:56:33 -0400 > To: [email protected] > From: [email protected] > Subject: [NF] Suggestions for Free Anti-Spyware? > > Hi Folks, > > We've been using MalwareBytes and Spybot Search & Destroy for periodic > full-system scans to detect malware. We don't use them for real-time > defense; we have Avast for that. > > Lately, on machines where MalwareBytes will pick up one or two items, > Spybot has not been detecting anything except the same tracking cookie. I > had been thinking about ditching it for a while, and then today discovered > that the 1.6.2 version no longer detects any pattern updates. The 2.x > version does, but it is bloatware and a PITA to configure--and in the end, > it doesn't find anything unless you configure it to detect things that no > anti-malware in its right mind should detect. > > So I am looking for a new option for periodic full-system scans. > > SuperAntiSpyware seems to get good reviews. Does anyone here have an > opinion on it? > > Are there other options I should consider for free anti-spyware/malware > system-scans? > > Thanks very much. > > Ken Dibble > www.stic-cil.org > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
