Thanks everybody for your suggestions.
I used to use Trend Micro Houscall for server scans. For some reason I
stopped--I think at some point it started malfunctioning. But I will take a
look at it again. (We used to use Trend Micro Corporate Edition for our
anti-virus system but, at least back in the old days, it used to munge
email client settings in a way that caused frequent errors, so we stopped
using it in favor of Avast.)
I've looked at SuperAntiSpyWare and AdwCleaner. Both seem easy to use. They
didn't find anything of much interest on my computer either--but that's to
be expected.
If I had my druthers I'd set up a separate router on one of our unused
public IP addresses (to keep it divorced from my network), plug a machine
into it, hose it up with crap real good, and then see what these programs
find. But I probably can't justify the spending for that..
Thanks again, all.
Ken Dibble
www.stic-cil.org
I consider Trend Micro Housecall a first-line defense standard when
dealing with any kind of malware or virus detection. (along with Malwarebytes.)
Microsoft has also, recently, added a couple of online scanners.
Mike Copeland
Ken Dibble wrote:
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
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