It’s odd actually how these things happen. My brother Steve recently had a horrendous issue with what turned out to be MalWAre. He begun to notice that his system was behaving strangely. There was increasingly unexplained network activity even when the machine was supposed to be sitting idle.
His then current antivirus or security system which just happened to be Norton AntiVirus was not picking anything up. When we added Steve’s system to our business network, alarm bells started not just ringing but clanging incessantly. So Gordon tried another solution. Since Norton didn’t detect anything, he removed it. Then, he networked Steve’s computer to our Mac. Our Mac contains a solution called “CleanMyMac” and another called “NTFS For Mac”. Their functions are obvious. Then Gordon set ClearnMyMac loose on Steve’s drive and that’s when we started getting some results. The system, it turned out, was carrying not just 1 suspicious piece of code, but quite a lot of them. CleanMyMac actually removed the Malware from Steve’s computer, given time. As I say, we have now installed Vipre Business on Steve’s machine along with MalWare Bytes Business. Hopefully with the 2 solutions running side-by-side, we and Steve should be able to feel a little more safe when we have to use Windows. The MalWAre Bytes utility is tiny, about a 9MB download if I remember correctly. We are now having to use Windows more frequently still, now that Gordon’s employment contract has been secured. His job will involve the production of literature material for very young pupils. Some Internet research will be involved and a lot of other in-house things as well regarding IT. Gordon has been given the job title “Information Technology And Accessibility Consultant”. I will talk more about that elsewhere; but I’m proud. Anyway, back to the point. Malware is something which must be taken very seriously in my view, and not just brushed under the carpet. Nor does it affect only Windows. We have already highlighted Apple’s security leaks in another place. So it looks like MalWAre is definitely on the increase. Ignore this threat at your peril. Of course, solutions such as 1Password which store your data securely in encrypted formats help. But that’s for another post. Lynne On 7 Oct 2013, at 20:32, Dane Trethowan <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes good points about Malware. > > Its timely that you refer to the subject of Malware, there's a chap who > writes reviews for Windows and associated products in our local Newspaper, > he's been saying for quite some time that most security suites around today > are not capable of dealing with Malware on their own, thus he's been > recommending an Application called Malware Bytes, I think the people who > develop Vipre Internet Security etc are also recommending the Malware Bytes > utilities. > > Anyway back to the point, the Malware Bytes Suite is only $29.00 for the full > copy and a free version is available, the difference? Well the full copy > works in the background, that is to say it examines and runs suspicious code > and acts accordingly, in other words Malware Bytes does its thing and only > "Alerts" you when your attention or assistance is required to clean or remove > an object and - if the full application is running - its highly likely that > your attention will ever be sought <smile>. ======================================= To post to this group, please send your message to: [email protected] The Windows-Access E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit your personalise subscriber options page, located at http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/windows-access You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Windows-Access forum at either of the following websites: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/windows-access/index.html Or: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. The feed is at: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> --------------------------------------- [email protected]
