HiJackThis Logs

GDATA AntiVirus 2009 Review

FYI - I uploaded the GDATA antivirus 2009 review last night.  YouTube.com/mrizos

I really enjoyed working with GDATA.  I firmly beleive that multiple scan engines are the furture (along with whitelisting).  GDATA removed 95% of the malware on the test PC, however it couldn’t remove Qhost or any malware related registry entries.
My official rating for GDATA [...]

HiJackThis Log For Anti-Malware Product Reviews

As I work on the F-Secure review I thought I’d introduce HiJackThis logs before and after.  Here is the current HijackThis Log for this (current) infected PC:

Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2
Scan saved at 10:53:31 AM, on 9/26/2008
Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180)
Boot mode: Normal
Running processes:
C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe
C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.exe
C:\WINDOWS\shell.exe
C:\WINDOWS\wpopejyl.exe
C:\Program Files\NetProject\scit.exe
C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_04\bin\jusched.exe
C:\Program Files\SystemDefender\SystemDefender.exe
C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware [...]

Norton Internet Security 2009 Review

Hi Everyone!  I uploaded the 8 part Norton Internet Security Review to YouTube.  You can watch any of my reviews  by going to YouTube.com/mrizos.
NIS2009 performed pretty well!  It removes a lot of serious malware, however it leaves behind a little adware (vundo) and a few trojan downloaders (the exe’s).  Here is the HiJackThis log after [...]

HiJackThis Log After FULL Kaspersky Scan

Here is the hijackthis log taken right after the Kaspersky scan. Unfortunately there seems to be alot of malware left on the pc. You can see where Kaspersky removed malware (it’ll say (file missing) ) and where it left malware, for example the entry below has been left intact by kaspersky even [...]