I've just had to rewind my PC back to before I installed 4OD (uses bloody kservices.exe).
This slowed it down to a crawl...
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I'd avoid McAfee and Norton like the plague...full of bloatware and guaranteed to scr3w your PC around.
I use F-Secure Internet Security for home use (Sophos for work).
For Trojans and the like, I use a combination of Adaware, Spybot Search & Destroy, Counterspy and Ashampoo Anti-Spyware
HTH
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From my experiance Kaspersky is one of the better ones. I used to use McAffee but the latest version is a pig, prolly because symantic bought them....(My opinion of symantic is very low indeed).
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Originally posted by cykophysh39
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Originally posted by zeitghostformat c: doesn't touch the MBR...
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In such situations as yours, I use the Trinity Rescue Kit - it boots to a Linux prompt but is really easy to use. If it's connected to the network it can download the latest definitions for ClamAV, Bitdefender, AVG and another one that escapes me and then scan the PC.
P.S. it's free
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Originally posted by PaddySometimes viruses attack the boot sector of the hard drive and this is the only way of removing them other than a new install of the OS.
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Originally posted by PigPaddy,
Have tried to system restore but unsure when it downloaded will be restoring again going back 2 months. But unsure whether I will still have the problem after this.
Symptoms are machine slowing down and appears to crash when virus checkers locate it. According to checkers it is a malacious programme trying to access my information. Virus checkers are telling me it is a 'bearshare' virus (malwarew). Currently running the following
stinger
avg
sophos
norton (appears to find it but crashes at that point)
Both avg and sophos have found it but machine crashes before I can get to it.
If you can give me any help it will be appreciated.
Cheers
Pig
I doubt the problems that you have are caused by that particular “virus”, but the actions of your PC running slow seems to point to spyware.
I would recommend removing all of your AV programmes and use either Norton, Sophos or the free version of Avast. For spy ware use the free version of Spybot.
If your PC is crashing running these applications (presuming you don't have a hardware fault) then download a bootable CD (XP?) from the net, that way it will boot without the virus in memory. You can the install and run the AV. (This is a much easier job than it sounds)
Sometimes viruses attack the boot sector of the hard drive and this is the only way of removing them other than a new install of the OS.
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Have you tried rebooting in safe mode without any networking, and then run anti-viruses?
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Trojan
Originally posted by PaddyI haven't found one product that does all.
What are the symptoms and details and I can tell you how to remove it manually.
Have tried to system restore but unsure when it downloaded will be restoring again going back 2 months. But unsure whether I will still have the problem after this.
Symptoms are machine slowing down and appears to crash when virus checkers locate it. According to checkers it is a malacious programme trying to access my information. Virus checkers are telling me it is a 'bearshare' virus (malwarew). Currently running the following
stinger
avg
sophos
norton (appears to find it but crashes at that point)
Both avg and sophos have found it but machine crashes before I can get to it.
If you can give me any help it will be appreciated.
Cheers
Pig
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I used Kaspersky and it fixed my Pandex Trojan problem... you can download a free trial version of the AV and use that to rid the system of the trojan.
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