Spyware cleanup?

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omar.rizwan

Hey,

Does anyone have some statistics about which free spyware remover is
best? I've heard that Spybot and Adaware aren't as effective as they
used to be.

(No, I can't switch my friend's PC to Linux. He uses FF, but the PC is
still drenched with adware/malware/etc.)
 
Hey,

Does anyone have some statistics about which free spyware remover is
best? I've heard that Spybot and Adaware aren't as effective as they
used to be.

(No, I can't switch my friend's PC to Linux. He uses FF, but the PC is
still drenched with adware/malware/etc.)
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Try using a combination of free utilities such as, Spybot S&D, Ad-Aware,
Microsoft AntiSpyware (Beta), SpywareBlaster, and WinPatrol.
 
Hey,

Does anyone have some statistics about which free spyware remover is
best? I've heard that Spybot and Adaware aren't as effective as they
used to be.

(No, I can't switch my friend's PC to Linux. He uses FF, but the PC is
still drenched with adware/malware/etc.)
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Sometimes complete cleanup is aided by the Kaspersky scan engine using
its extra defs. See my sig for KASFX.EXE.

Art

http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg
Free antivirus:
http://www.ik-cs.com/programs/virtools/KASFX.EXE
http://www.claymania.com/KASFX.EXE
http://tinyurl.com/azzkc
 
What Habidasher & Art say is very good advice, here is some extra
info.

ewido security suite free for Windows 2000/XP
http://www.ewido.net/en/features/
http://www.ewido.net/en/download/
Please use the online update after the installation. Only then can the
recent signature database be transferred and installed.
By combining the free AVG anti-virus scanner, the free version of Ewido
anti-Trojan scanner and the free Microsoft Antispyware scanner, I
managed to achieve a 95% detection rate against a
particularly nasty set of 104 assorted malware products that I had
downloaded from P2P networks.
http://www.techsupportalert.com/issues/issue122.htm
http://www.techsupportalert.com/issues/issue123.htm
http://www.techsupportalert.com/best_46_free_utilities.htm
http://www.techsupportalert.com/issues/back_issues.htm
Trojan and Spyware Tool -- Ewido Security Suite
http://georgeh123.blogspot.com/2005/09/trojan-and-spyware-tool-ewido-security.html
Microsoft Antispyware
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4466.html
 
Hey,

Does anyone have some statistics about which free spyware remover is
best? I've heard that Spybot and Adaware aren't as effective as they
used to be.

(No, I can't switch my friend's PC to Linux. He uses FF, but the PC is
still drenched with adware/malware/etc.)
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Perhaps he should change his browsing habits.
 
Art said:
Sometimes complete cleanup is aided by the Kaspersky scan engine using
its extra defs. See my sig for KASFX.EXE.

Art

http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg
Free antivirus:
http://www.ik-cs.com/programs/virtools/KASFX.EXE
http://www.claymania.com/KASFX.EXE
http://tinyurl.com/azzkc
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Are you the guy that has a batch file you were posting for getting the
latest updates? If so would you mind posting it again? I currently use the
built in updater but would like to see how you did your script again.

Thanks.
 
Are you the guy that has a batch file you were posting for getting the
latest updates? If so would you mind posting it again? I currently use the
built in updater but would like to see how you did your script again.
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I guess you mean this:
*************************
@echo off
cls
echo -----------------------------------------------
echo Updating using updates1 ftp site
echo -----------------------------------------------
wget -N ftp://updates1.kaspersky-labs.com/updates_x/*.avc
wget -N ftp://updates1.kaspersky-labs.com/updates_x/avp.*
echo -----------------------------------------------
echo Updating completed!
echo -----------------------------------------------
**********************
BTW, KASFX.EXE is now up at my web site as a much smaller (less than 1
meg) download. It contains a new KAV-UP.EXE updater program that
allows the user to select d/l sites. By way of explanation to others,
this kit contains a earlier version of Microworld's eScan antivirus
which has a clean/delete capability. It uses the Kaspersky scan
engine.

Also, I have a link to Kaspersky's version 3.5 which is a trial
version that can't be updated. My updater for use with it is
there as well. IMO, this was the best version of KAV.

Art
 
Art said:
I guess you mean this:
*************************
@echo off
cls
echo -----------------------------------------------
echo Updating using updates1 ftp site
echo -----------------------------------------------
wget -N ftp://updates1.kaspersky-labs.com/updates_x/*.avc
wget -N ftp://updates1.kaspersky-labs.com/updates_x/avp.*
echo -----------------------------------------------
echo Updating completed!
echo -----------------------------------------------
**********************
BTW, KASFX.EXE is now up at my web site as a much smaller (less than 1
meg) download. It contains a new KAV-UP.EXE updater program that
allows the user to select d/l sites. By way of explanation to others,
this kit contains a earlier version of Microworld's eScan antivirus
which has a clean/delete capability. It uses the Kaspersky scan
engine.

Also, I have a link to Kaspersky's version 3.5 which is a trial
version that can't be updated. My updater for use with it is
there as well. IMO, this was the best version of KAV.

Art
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Yes I use barts pe and I have mwav autoupdate for it but I would rather use
this way as it is cleaner than the mothod they use were files are
litterally downloaded into folders were things don't need to be.

Thanks again. I will use download.exe as it does update properly and I have
had issues with wget not doing an update but simply redownloading every
time. Anyway thanks.


What are the license restriction of kav 3.5? mwav is only legal to use by 1`
person on their very own system. If kav demo version is not licensed the
same way it may be very handy addition to my system restore cd.

Thanks.
 
Art said:
IMO, 3.5 was the best version of all, and I continue to use it.
Because of the issue I mentioned, earlier versions will give a "can't
resolve GetProcAddressEx" message. Just ignore it. And
ignore the fact that it doesn't know it has been updated. It reports
some old "laste update" date. But you'll notice the number of
records increasing well over 153,000 so you know it is updating
ok.

Art
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Thanks I did look at the license that it pops up during install and the
license does not expire as far as I can see and even states if you continue
to use it after 30 days you have to remove it from anything it is on or
else pay for it. So I am going to assume that it is not usable for my
purposes.

Well and really this also means that it is not really usable legally for
anybodies purposes after 30 days. As far as what it does or does not do I
run a shop and am very well acquainted with the different advantages of
different virus scanners. I currently am a nod32 reseller but am watching
the Kaspersy 2006 line and am beta testing it to see how it does.

The issue with mwav is that you can only use it as a single person also but
for the purposes you talk about it would seem to be completely legal. For
my purposes it is not. Since they require a license for every system I work
on and I would rather sell the customer a complete solution rather than
mwav.

Thanks for your input and knowledge. If you happen to run across a scanner
that is legal and uses the kav engine let me know.
 
What are the license restriction of kav 3.5? mwav is only legal to use by 1`
person on their very own system. If kav demo version is not licensed the
same way it may be very handy addition to my system restore cd.
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What started me on this last week was the news that the Swiss site no
longer offers Kaspersky products. I searched, and couldn't find
version 3.5 offered for sale anywhere. Then someone pointed out
that the sac ftp site has version 3.5 available for d/l. It's a trial
version with def files so outdated that the trial period is expired
and it doesn't update.

So I figured it's abandonware and decided to do a updater for it.
KAV is up to version 6 Beta which will be it's offering for 2006. I
dunno if anyone supports version 3.5 ... Kaspersky themselves
haven't offered it in a long time, and I kinda doubt they still
support it.

Insofar as scan engine limitations compared to newer versions,
I read a technical bulletin Kaspersky put out on the subject which
mentions that newer versions have a improved capability of
dealing with certain in-memory malware. But other than that,
3.5 has the same detection capabilities as the new versions,
so far as I can determine. And perhaps in Safe mode, even
the issue Kaspersky mentions is a non-issue.

IMO, 3.5 was the best version of all, and I continue to use it.
Because of the issue I mentioned, earlier versions will give a "can't
resolve GetProcAddressEx" message. Just ignore it. And
ignore the fact that it doesn't know it has been updated. It reports
some old "laste update" date. But you'll notice the number of
records increasing well over 153,000 so you know it is updating
ok.

Art

http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg
 
Thanks I did look at the license that it pops up during install and the
license does not expire as far as I can see and even states if you continue
to use it after 30 days you have to remove it from anything it is on or
else pay for it.
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There's nobody left to pay :) That was my point. It's not for sale
anywhere that I can find.

Art

http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg
 
Thanks again. I will use download.exe as it does update properly and I have
had issues with wget not doing an update but simply redownloading every
time. Anyway thanks.
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I guess you're referring to this download.exe ?:

http://noeld.com/programs.asp?cat=misc

I just found it and tested it out for use with Kaspersky defs updating
and decided it's unsuitable. When only one or two or a few files
require updating it takes forever to go down through the list and
put out the "no update required" for most all of the 121 files.

I never have had the problem you mention with wget. It's been quite
reliable in my experience. Dunno off hand what the problem might
have been. I've used it in my F-Prot for DOS updaters for years,
and probably the users of my updaters number in the millions,
according to claymania site stats alone. If wget is buggy it's news
to me :)

Art

http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg
 
IMO, 3.5 was the best version of all, and I continue to use it.
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Seconded! I don't think they would loose too much money if they declared
it free, because most people nowadays don't know how to do command line.
But nevertheless they surely will restrain from giving it freely away,
unfortunately. - If not because of monetary thoughts, then out of fear
of massive support requests... :-(

BeAr
 
Art said:
I guess you're referring to this download.exe ?:

http://noeld.com/programs.asp?cat=misc

I just found it and tested it out for use with Kaspersky defs updating
and decided it's unsuitable. When only one or two or a few files
require updating it takes forever to go down through the list and
put out the "no update required" for most all of the 121 files.

I never have had the problem you mention with wget. It's been quite
reliable in my experience. Dunno off hand what the problem might
have been. I've used it in my F-Prot for DOS updaters for years,
and probably the users of my updaters number in the millions,
according to claymania site stats alone. If wget is buggy it's news
to me :)

Art

http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg
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it doesn't work properly over http if you happen to have some update sources
that need to be done that way.

I have used it under linux and the linux version always seemed to operate
properly. The windows version is a port however and the last time I went
looking it was a rather old port also.

I don't really care about any of that though. I was not suggesting anybody
change.


As for download.exe I don't remember the address right off. I just used it
though and it only updated the two files that changed and did not enumerate
all the others. Possibly this is only an issue when allot of files are out
of date. Since I'm running is multiple times every week though I don't
think I would ever see that type of thing. And it is nicer since I use a
set of batch files to update multiple things over both ftp and http. Well
nicer in that i can do it all easily with one program.

I had tried it with wget and had all my scripts switched over but as stated
it did not work properly I beelieve it was for http. It would always
redownload weather an update was needed or not. And since most the other
programs I update are http it makes for allot of unneeded downloading.
 
Art said:
There's nobody left to pay :) That was my point. It's not for sale
anywhere that I can find.

Art

http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg
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kaspersky is still a company with a legal license to it. Unless they gave it
away to a company that is out of business. And you still have to agree to
their legally binding license to install it.

I would rather be legal. I'm cheap but would rather stay legal.
 
Seconded! I don't think they would loose too much money if they declared
it free, because most people nowadays don't know how to do command line.
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3.5 isn't command line. You may be thinking of KAVDOS32.
But nevertheless they surely will restrain from giving it freely away,
unfortunately. - If not because of monetary thoughts, then out of fear
of massive support requests... :-(
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Kaspersky has said that KAVDOS32 is not supported.

Art

http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg
 
3.5 isn't command line. You may be thinking of KAVDOS32.
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You're right. Kaspersky Avpdos32 3.0 (133). Your mention of the Swiss
server set me on the wrong path. It used to be the last download for
that version and now links to Nirvana. :-(
Kaspersky has said that KAVDOS32 is not supported.
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Still works with the current definition files, though. Reduced
functions if not registered. That's why a release as freeware
would be a good thing. It is still (one of) the best for on-demand
scanning.

BeAr
 

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