Here is the final day (day 2) on my look at Spyware Doctor with Antivirus 2010 on a highly infected PC.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cURmi1Pa5S0
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Here is the final day (day 2) on my look at Spyware Doctor with Antivirus 2010 on a highly infected PC.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cURmi1Pa5S0
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I guess I’ll be waiting for the 2011 version then. PC Tools seems to still be a huge hog. I’m happy enough with Norton Internet Security 2010 anyway.
I’ve recently bought PcTools Internet Security 2010 and I have to say that it’s one of the lightest suites I have ever tried.
When idling it sits around 25-40 mbs and the protection is superb.
What was on the VM? Did a follow up scan with SAS or MBAM reveal the culprit(s)?
Whatever they were, I’m thinking MSE with Threatfire might do a better job than Spyware Doctor with Antivirus 2010. This review revealed something odd about Spyware Doctor. Why did it say it was clean and allow rediirects without much warning? I can only assume the “Browser protector” was doing only a part of the job it promised to do.
I never liked it. I do appreciate that they provide a version of ThreatFire for free. It is a good BB. But using their suite as active protection is not suited for me. I want a light product (mem usage AND CPU usage). As for on-demand scanning, Malwarebytes is faster and also has good detection rates. Win7 is Vista improved. The more I use it, the more I like it. Small changes make a diference: You can tweak UAC, Networking is made easy with Libraries and Homegroups, no more annoying sidebar…etc. I never did a OS update in my life. Clean install is the way to go
I meant OS upgrade. Of course I do updates. Every new Win OS is over-hyped. I just think that Win7 is what Vista should have been.
Matt,
Have you ever heard of Disk Write Copy software? It’s for virtualization and compatible with 64 bits OS.
Homepage: http://www.diskwritecopy.com/eng/
Have a crazy MBR rootkit on a system (Mebroot variant). Can’t just do a fix MBR, it’s in the first sector, the 60th, and at the end of the drive (and maybe more). Can’t remove it with anything (tried all mentioned AV/Malware commonly used). GMER detects it, but so what, it won’t remove it. System was running Norton Endpoint Protection. Nod32 won’t remove it, rootkit repeal crashes, combofix tried, but failed. It activates from too many places. How do you suggest I clean this out? (even tried a kaspersky live CD with very recent updates).
I just found this useful site btw, I like Firefox, but only with adblock and WOT addons does it sort of protect from malware. you are right, it’s getting bloated. WOT is available for IE as well, highly recommend it for your customers (free). Thanks!
Matt,
Since Spyware Doctor 2010 is bundled with Threatfire and considering Spyware Doctor failed on avoiding some malwares acording to your test, can We also consider that Threatfire is also not good?
Thanks