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[Lizzie_Zoom]

My friends pc had become very infected with malware and viruses galore after frequently downloading "free games" from the internet and the like off of Facebook, etc, etc.

I tried to manually to clear it all, but the bloody adverts, often shaking, along with warnings about "slow running PC", and the so called "search engine" Websearch kept on taking over, and making her PC unworkable, still were doing their worst.  Spoke eventually to the computer building and programming company who built both of our PC's and they said it takes them "hours" to clear the worst infected systems.  However was advised to try the Malwarebytes Corporation anti malware and everything else paid for (£18 PA for 3 PC's) package.

Downloaded it to her computer and installed. It took a few scans and reboots, but this programme was marvellous with all the infections being cleared.  Her PC now runs like it should with no corruption of internet searches!

Bloody great!  I would highly recommend for the many who apparently suffer from these dreadful attacks to their PC!

[Varche]

I always use the free version at least a couple of times a week.

I wonder what the paid for version offers over the free one?

[Shackeng]

I always use the free version at least a couple of times a week.

I wonder what the paid for version offers over the free one?

Ditto, been using it for years, good bit of kit.

[Taxi_Driver]

Ive recently uninstalled Malwarebytes (free version) and Avast (free version) and installed MS Security Essentials (free) which includes anti spyware as well as anti virus.

Apart from speeding lappy up.....I shall see how it performs  But pleased so far 

[TheBoy]

Paid one can do realtime antimalware

I use Ms security essentials, with malwarebytes free for occasional scans

[Lizzie_Zoom]

Paid one can do realtime antimalware

I use Ms security essentials, with malwarebytes free for occasional scans

......and more. See the list on here:

https://www.malwarebytes.org/lp/lp4/02_r/?gclid=CO-y64DQkcMCFQrpwgod9BMAWA

For under £18 per year for up to 3 PC's I cannot see why not to buy the premium package for the extra advantages

[The Sheriff]

Paid one can do realtime antimalware

I use Ms security essentials, with malwarebytes free for occasional scans

Me too. Malwarebytes gets on me tit a bit, though. Telling me my licence has run out and I've only got the free version. I KNOW!

[zirk]

The free version is fine Lizzy, just doesn't give realtime protection but the Scan is the same, ideally a full Treat Scan with all 3 options ticked in Settings/Detection Options/ to include Root Kits and best done in Safe Mode. 

[amazonian]

Recommended here too, paid for version well worth it imo.

[Broomies Mate]

Learn how to use a computer on the Internet and you'll never require any form of protection.

They are just Memory Hungry (TSR for the old school) Resource hungry applications which are not required.


I've recovered many a system (usually Vista, XP, Win7) from the brink of death when so called 'experts' charging proper money have failed by simply editing the registry and only allowing Windows to boot what I tell it to load.

A simple and fool-proof method is to find out what is loading during start-up using 'msconfig' and disabling them from that application.  To double bag the situation, manually change the .exe filename and it'll never start again!

[dbug]

Learn how to use a computer on the Internet and you'll never require any form of protection.

They are just Memory Hungry (TSR for the old school) Resource hungry applications which are not required.


I've recovered many a system (usually Vista, XP, Win7) from the brink of death when so called 'experts' charging proper money have failed by simply editing the registry and only allowing Windows to boot what I tell it to load.

A simple and fool-proof method is to find out what is loading during start-up using 'msconfig' and disabling them from that application.  To double bag the situation, manually change the .exe filename and it'll never start again!

Only a small part of the story mate - use Autoruns (free from Sysinternals, now owned by MS) to se full picture for "startups".

The freeby version of Malwarebytes is also perfectly adequate.
Another good free tool for anti-malware is HiJackThis - altho experience required to interpret results

[aaronjb]

TSR for the old school

There's a term I haven't heard in a lot of years! Terminate and Stay Resident.. takes me back to the good old days of conventional memory vs. UMA vs. HMA vs. extended memory, forever tweaking config.sys and all that good stuff.

[Gaffers]

Personally if I ever see a disk that infected I recover the files I need and scrap it as you can never fully trust it.  I would also flash the BIOS just to be sure before starting a fresh install from scratch.

Malwarebytes is good but very little can be done to rid a machine of any rootkits, RATs and anything that has infiltrated the BIOS unless you literally wipe the slate clean.

At £40 for a half decent disk drive it is worth it, especially if you conduct financial or business affairs on that machine.

[Lizzie_Zoom]

Personally if I ever see a disk that infected I recover the files I need and scrap it as you can never fully trust it.  I would also flash the BIOS just to be sure before starting a fresh install from scratch.

Malwarebytes is good but very little can be done to rid a machine of any rootkits, RATs and anything that has infiltrated the BIOS unless you literally wipe the slate clean.

At £40 for a half decent disk drive it is worth it, especially if you conduct financial or business affairs on that machine.

Malware (paid for) did that on my friends PC as advertised

[Kevin Wood]

TSR for the old school

There's a term I haven't heard in a lot of years! Terminate and Stay Resident.. takes me back to the good old days of conventional memory vs. UMA vs. HMA vs. extended memory, forever tweaking config.sys and all that good stuff.

<shudder> Me too. brought back horrible nightmares, that one. Memories of a machine that required a TSR of about 250k to operate, and there I was trying the shoe-horn the rest of the software around it into the meagre memory space that was left.