On 5/13/2010 10:59 AM, Pat Connors wrote: > I really want to thank all for the help you are giving me. >> Download the "free version" fromhttp://www.malwarebytes.org/ and run it >> ASAP. This is probably the best free programs available to detect and >> remove any unwanted files on your pc. >> > > I did this and this is the 3rd scan in less than 24 hours that I have > done (McAfee, Windows Security) and this one took the longest (over 2 > hours) and scanned over 275,000 files and I really feel it was the most > complete. None of them found anything. Remember this is a brand new > computer. I am confident their is no virus/worm on my computer.
Actually, virus scanning as a whole is hit or miss. Just because you run one (or all) of them doesn't in any way mean you don't have a virus, etc., on your machine. The only tool in existence that will prevent your machine from getting a virus is to never turn it on in the first place. The scanner/cleaner tools can find most things, but they can't by any stretch of the imagination find everything. This just isn't possible. To help you see this, imagine the company that created a virus scanner. They designed their scanner to look for particular patterns in files which match known virus patterns. Known at that time, that is. Now, consider the situation even 5 minutes after they released their latest virus scanning database to you. Someone on the planet can develop a new virus which the scanner software doesn't know to look for. How will running the scanner software catch this one? It simply can't. In a few days/weeks, the software may be updated to catch that particular virus (depending on how easy it is to detect and how quickly the scanner software people are able to react to it). Note also that if you're the only one hit by a particular virus, the scanner software people may not even know about it - so their software might never be updated to look for it. I hope this help you understand things a bit better. Best Regards, _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
