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[owl]

From: "owl" (e-mail address removed)

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No problem. I'm glad that you now have a current AV solution and it
found and cleaned some
infectors.

You may want to verify that you are indeed clean of infectors. I have
written a front end
to the scanners from; McAfee, Trend Micro and Sophos that you can run
"On Demand". They
can be used to make sure your PC is indeed infector free and can
co-exist with AVG.


Download MULTI_AV.EXE from the URL --
http://www.ik-cs.com/programs/virtools/Multi_AV.exe

It is a self-extracting ZIP file that contains the Kixtart Script
Interpreter {
http://kixtart.org Kixtart is CareWare } three batch files, five
Kixtart scripts, one Link
(.LNK) file, this PDF instruction file and two utilities; UNZIP.EXE and
WGET.EXE. It will
simplify the process of using; Sophos, Trend and McAfee Anti Virus
Command Line Scanners to
remove
viruses and various other malware.

C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT -- { or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in
C:\AV-CLS}
This will bring up the initial menu of choices and should be executed
in Normal Mode. This
way all the components can be downloaded from each AV vendor’s web
site.
The choices are; Sophos, Trend, McAfee, Exit the menu and Reboot the
PC.

You can choose to go to each menu item and just download the needed
files or you can
download the files and perform a scan in Normal Mode. Once you have
downloaded the files
needed for each scanner you want to use, you should reboot the PC into
Safe Mode [F8 key
during boot] and re-run the menu again and choose which scanner you
want to run in Safe
Mode. It is suggested to run the scanners in both Safe Mode and Normal
Mode.

When the menu is displayed hitting 'H' or 'h' will bring up a more
comprehensive PDF help
file.

To use this utility, perform the following...
Execute; Multi_AV.exe { Note: You must use the default folder C:\AV-CLS
}
Choose; Unzip
Choose; Close

Execute; C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT
{ or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS }

NOTE: You may have to disable your software FireWall or allow WGET.EXE
and/or FTP.EXE to go
through your FireWall to allow them to download the needed AV vendor
related files.

* * * Please report back your results * * *

hank-Thanks for your advice, I have downloaded AVG free edition,
andamazingly it found 9 trojan
| horses, yet I have subcribed to Norton for2 yrs and it never picked
these up. Avg has put
| them in a vault, do notfully understand this, do they just stay
there? Have consulted
| theirhelp notes but do not fully comprehend them either, but anyhow
basedonthe fact that
| it detected these, I will probably subcribe to the paidversion, do
you know if it user
| friendly to people that are not thatexperienced with computer
termonology? Once again
| thanks for your time, help and advice, so many things with acomputer
are a minefield, but
| i'm still learning and practicing!-- owl

Owl:

yTo Dave
Tou so much for your advice,I downloaded MULTI_AVEXE as you said, I did
need some help to get to the start menu from some-one who understands
computers better than I do, but we got there. The first, Sophos found
7563 errors!!!, 3 viruses and 3 files infected, Trend and mcfee found
only a couple of viruses. I assume that running these programs has
either quarantined or deleted these items??
I also re-ran them in safe mode, but the Mcfee file would not open, so
have now re-booted, without that one being done. I really do appreciate
the time you have taken, it is difficult when you are still learning to
understand these things, I do subcribe to easy pc and have nearly
completed the collection, if only one had enough time to read them all!
I am so grateful there are people out ther who are prepared to help us
novices. Well I assume I am done on this subject, I am still using AVG
free anti virus, do you think that the paid for AVG AV is ok for my use
or do you have a preference for some-one else?
Once again many thanks
Owl

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "owl" <[email protected]>

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| yTo Dave
| Tou so much for your advice,I downloaded MULTI_AVEXE as you said, I didneed some help to
| get to the start menu from some-one who understandscomputers better than I do, but we got
| there. The first, Sophos found7563 errors!!!, 3 viruses and 3 files infected, Trend and
| mcfee foundonly a couple of viruses. I assume that running these programs haseither
| quarantined or deleted these items?? I also re-ran them in safe mode, but the Mcfee file
| would not open, sohave now re-booted, without that one being done. I really do
| appreciatethe time you have taken, it is difficult when you are still learning
| tounderstand these things, I do subcribe to easy pc and have nearlycompleted the
| collection, if only one had enough time to read them all!I am so grateful there are people
| out ther who are prepared to help usnovices. Well I assume I am done on this subject, I am
| still using AVGfree anti virus, do you think that the paid for AVG AV is ok for my useor
| do you have a preference for some-one else? Once again many thanks
| Owl-- owl

Continue to use the free version. I am sure the added abilities won't add to tor security
level.

You can contue to use the Multi AV tool on a perios bassis as a "On Demand" scanner as it
will keep you updated as long as you run the modules in Normal Mode.