AVAST.......... Free tool that will help you remove selected worm infections from your computer. If, despite all the security measures you take, your computer gets infected by a virus or worm, it is necessary to disinfect your system somehow. While for some viruses the only 100% realiable method of disinfection is restoring your system from backups, for many common infections this is not really necessary and the virus/worm can be removed quite easily
Cool, but I have found the best way is to do some research find and remove it manually. It is the best way to learn how these things really affect your system and how you can better defend against it. File mod IDS like Tripwire, a bit of snort a decent Firewall and a couple of AV.
Thanks for the info ComSec Jax
as0l0
Dec 10 2003, 02:44 AM
this is great.
do you know of any tool that will do this remotely? or a tool that can scan remotely for trojans?
CoolRaden
Dec 17 2003, 12:57 PM
Thanks for the info
Rigpa
Dec 18 2003, 01:12 PM
as0l0: since you asked this here, you can find a tool from pandasoft that i put on my website here there are tools to remove stuff as wellas other information there as well,, hth
beardednose
Dec 18 2003, 09:15 PM
I run panda platnium on one of my boxes (got it free when they were dangling out that "free for life" deal), but can't say I like it much. Not intuitive and just doesn't work as well as I like. Just had to reinstall as the firewall wouldn't run.
But it DOES catch the SC-keylogger, which impressed me (not that this logger is any better than any other). So far, I've only found that Avast, Norton, Panda, and Antivir catches it. Trend Micro does not, which is very disappointing (it did catch one other keylogger, but don't remember which).
I don't particularly like avast either. The GUI is horrible IMHO and stuff is too hard to find. It does seem to have more features that other free antivirus. And Avast installs and updates FAST!
(of course, loggers exists that don't even use sockets, so no AV will catch them).
ganz2
Dec 20 2003, 05:45 AM
found 2 on my comp lol
skorpio
Dec 28 2003, 12:49 PM
very nice program
i have found 3 virus :S
thx
FakoLy
Dec 28 2003, 12:56 PM
thanx i check it
AdmiralB
Dec 28 2003, 11:56 PM
excellant got 5 out of mine
ganz2
Dec 29 2003, 07:12 AM
it missed an adware program on mine that spykiller got.