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I know you guys have listed the names of a few free anti-virus scans that are pretty good but I can't find the names right now. I use IObit to clear my cache and for scans but I am being told there is a security problem and it isn't clearing it up. I have also done a scan with avast antivirus and with Ad-aware and they can't find it either... Any ideas would be appreciated, please. Be careful. I've never heard of IObit, but there are scammers out there that create fake AV software that will report fake security risks to get you to buy their product. I'm not saying that IObit is one of them, but if Avast! didn't catch anything, you should be safe. You can try AVG, but AVG tends to slow down some systems. There's also ClamAV, which is a linux AV program. ClamAV is used on many Linux servers, but they have a Windows version as well. Forgot to mention there's free online AV scans as well. System Rescue Cd has the clam antivirus scanner and can update from the cd. SystemRescueCd Last Update: Thursday 7 April 2011 01:53 GMT SystemRescueCd * Based on: Gentoo * Origin: France * Architecture: i586 * Desktop: JWM, Xfce * Category: Rescue, Live Medium * Status: Active SystemRescueCd is a Gentoo-based Linux system on a bootable CD-ROM or USB drive, designed for repairing a system and data after a crash. It also aims to provide an easy way to carry out administration tasks on a computer, such as creating and editing hard disk partitions. It contains many useful system utilities (GNU Parted, PartImage, FSTools) and some basic ones (editors, Midnight Commander, network tools). It aims to be very easy to use. The kernel of the system supports all of today's most important file systems, including ext2, ext3, ext4, ReiserFS, Reiser4FS, btrfs, XFS, JFS, VFAT, NTFS, ISO9660, as well as network file systems, such as Samba and NFS. The CD comes with several floppy disk images. These can be used as if they were real boot floppy disks. * FreeDos[22] allows running DOS programs without proprietary MS-DOS * MemTest+ test the physical memory, and tells if it is damaged or not * Gag (Graphical Boot Manager)[23] an easy to use Boot manager (such as LILO) * Ranish Partition Manager a bootable partition editor. Revised documentation at [24] * Aida a powerful hardware enumeration/diagnostic/discovery tool (as sandra). Details components like type of video subsystem, NIC and memory specifics. * MHDD[25] low-level Hard Disk Drive Diagnostic. Reports S.M.A.R.T. data, firmware errorlog, runs firmware tests, scans surface reporting access times per sector and much more. Revised documentation at [26] http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page 
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There's also false positives as well. yea, i agree... i think that falls in line with what you were saying about the anti-virus companies making the viruses themselves... at least thats what i think |
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There's also false positives as well. yea, i agree... i think that falls in line with what you were saying about the anti-virus companies making the viruses themselves... at least thats what i think Not always, sometimes legit software is just too sensitive or soemthing could be misconfigured, or something. |
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