For what it's worth, I recently spent a day removing a Trojan from my mother's computer. Nothing that PC Tools and AdAware could do would remove it. They would say that they had cleaned the system, but it would return. Plus, having both an AV and an anti-malware system running live proved to be burdensome to the system.
So, I remembered having read about Vipre from Sunbelt Software. Long and short is that I downloaded, installed, and cleaned the system. (Full disclosure: Vipre's real-time monitoring told me where the problem was, and I manually fixed it; I don't know that it would have actually cleaned the Trojan, but none of the other apps gave me so much as a hint. Vipre would put a popup on the screen, telling me what was going on, and I'd click OK telling it to remove the infected file. Before I could do anything else, the popup was back. Trouble was, a different dll was recreating the infected file every time the infected file was removed. But Vipre told me which dll was doing this. While it was a required system file, I was able to replace it with a copy from an uninfected XP machine, having booted into safe mode.) Plus, Vipre does both anti-virus and anti-malware, and does so in about 1/3 the footprint of just your normal anti-virus. http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Home-Home-Office/VIPRE/ Check it out ... reasonable prices - including a "home site license" - and works great in a fraction of the footprint I've seen with any other such application. Emmitt Dove Manager, Converting Applications Development Evergreen Packaging, Inc. [email protected] (203) 214-5683 m (203) 643-8022 o (203) 643-8086 f [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Castanaro, Bob Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 5:15 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Warning Did the DOS apps run OK with previous versions of Ad-Aware? BC -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill Owens Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 2:06 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Warning I just wanted to let anyone who still runs Rbase Dos Applications that I had a problem this morning. On 1 of my PC's in the office we upgraded Ad-Aware to the newest version. After this upgrade we would click on our Dos Application Icon and nothing would happen. It seems the new Ad-Aware thought it was spam or malware. I removed Ad-Aware and all is well Just a friendly warning Bill
