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Can someone give me a link to a free and safe Malware removal tool please?

I have AVG as my main virus thing but someone said that it is possible to have Malware and stuff that AVG misses?

Any guidance and help appreciated

DWD



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My understanding is AVG is solely anti-virus. You want anti-malware. Try Malwarebytes

Though having said that if your AVG is up to date, your computer is kept up-dated as well as your browser, AVG will stop just about anything.

MBaM is great as a back-up though.

Thanks chaps, I have downloaded Malwarebytes and run it and it found one Pup Optional Toolbar Installer which I have removed. I wondered if the one it found was a sprat to catch a mackerel and encourage me to upgrade to the premium service?

Thanks again

DWD

I have the premium edition, but only because I want real time protection and wanted to give something back to the developer for such a good program.

The free one will catch all the same mal-ware

If you have or think you have some nasty stuff use hijackthis http://sourceforge.net/projects/hjt/

NPE is another good tool https://security.symantec.com/nbrt/npe.aspx its good for killing Trojans and root kits

This program has found stuff that MWB missed:

http://adwcleaner.en.uptodown.com/

wrinx

Thanks all.

I uninstalled MWB as it seems to be constantly running and using a lot of resource. Ahi am happy that AVG is doing its job.

DWD

MbaM uses nothing until you do a scan ?? certainly the free version anyway...

On task manager it showed it was running in WE when I use Mozzilla as my browser. The Windows Explorer seems to be defective which is why I am not using it now. Perhaps it was an auto scan?

DWD

Some mail/spyware does try to change your connection settings in IE, usually by adding a proxy, causing IE to not connect you can check this under Internet options - Connections - Lan settings

If in doubt reset IE, Internet options - Advanced - Reset (remember to set your history settings from 20 days to 4-5 days and internet options - advanced -scroll down to security and tick "do not save encrypted pages to disc")

dewaltdisney wrote:On task manager it showed it was running in WE when I use Mozzilla as my browser. The Windows Explorer seems to be defective which is why I am not using it now. Perhaps it was an auto scan?

DWD

The free version never autoscans ???

You did download the official version from https://www.malwarebytes.org/lp/lp4/02/ ... tAodx0oAaA

As opposed to a file sharing site ??

Yes Wino, it was the site that SE linked me to in an earlier post above which looked like the proper site to me?

I checked the settings Flash, all seems in order. I have uninstalled it now and all seems okay.

Thanks all for the advice

DWD

It doesn't auto scan on my pc either. Oh and the link I gave, I confess, I got from a post here on UHM

dewaltdisney wrote:Thanks all.

I uninstalled MWB as it seems to be constantly running and using a lot of resource. Ahi am happy that AVG is doing its job.

DWD

I used to use both AVG (free) and Malwarebytes: I had to remove both of them eventually, an updated version of AVG just wasn't right it became a resource hog on my PC and I switched to *Avast*, a few months later I was running Malwarebytes and it just appeared to take over my PC, I can't remember all the ins and outs but it was running a scan at the time and it basically wouldn't respond to anything I asked it to do, it wouldn't pause or stop or anything, I turfed it out and switched to using *SUPERantispyware*.

My PC is still working OK so they must be doing something right.

Does anyone still use *Spybot - Search and Destroy*? I used to use it regularly but it never found anything - except other similar programmes which it wanted me to delete.