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flamewalker

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  1. MBAM is not an Anti Virus, although it will catch many of them. I personally run it along side Norton Internet Security 2012. I know, Norton has a bad rap, but their latest products (2010 and later) really turned everything around for them as far as performance and catch rates and false positive rate. Any rate, there are a couple videos on Youtube showing off MBAM, catching every malicious URL thrown at it (granted a small subset of 25 most recent, nonetheless, still impressive). These are sites that typically can sneak past most antiviruses and IE. I highly recommend MBAM, as it can catch a lot of active infections better than most (if not all) others. I rarely use anything else in my job as a PC technician anymore, except for the bad ones that require use of the tools that one shouldn't run unless they know what they are doing! One other snippet I discovered today is that it is number 1 on CNET for anti malware programs
  2. OK, I have a unique situation here... I have a Windows 7 Professional with XP Mode installed (for software compatibility reasons). The XP Mode has a really nasty rootkit of some sort, can't even run removal tools from safe mode. Unfortunately it's not like a normal machine, I can pull the hard drive and scan it from another computer. So, I am looking for ideas, other than backup files and delete and reinstall the VM. I suspect this may be the only viable option at this point, but willing to try anything. TIA. If anyone else runs into this issue, I used the Microsoft Security Sweeper @ http://connect.microsoft.com/systemsweeper. Downloaded the ISO and then set the virtual machine to load the ISO as a CD. Then I followed this page to get the VM to boot from the CD (ISO): http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/59908-windows-virtual-pc-boot-cd-virtual-machine.html. The VM must have 768MB RAM or more for the MSSS tool to run. Once it ran and removed everything, I was able to reboot, re-enable integration features, and reinstall and run MBAM. Hope this helps someone!
  3. I have a customer's PC who has the regtool.com program loaded... and searching Google just came up with a bunch of sites promoting it, and 1 or 2 that say it is malicious. So, I searched here. I have found posts saying it is detected and removed by MBAM, and others saying it isn't because it is more of a 'snake oil' product...Well it isn't detected by the latest updates, so I don't know what the truth of the matter is :x It did update Adobe, Java, and other programs that were out of date, which I find useful since it is usually the older versions of software that gets exploited the most. It said it found and removed quite a few other "problems". As far as system performance? No change. (Not surprised either, as I have never seen a registry tool make Windows run better, ever... unless it was trying to load bad drivers or something). Since it isn't being detected, I assume MBAM considers it to be non-malicious? (Other than being a 'snake oil' product). And since it appears the customer may have paid for it, is there really any harm in leaving it? TIA
  4. Yeah unfortunately another program had already purged the autorun file from the flash drive or I would have submitted it. I understand the battle. Was just surprised that it didn't detect something it detects during a scan, when it tried to run.
  5. I got my flash drive infected with the following apparently: Files Infected: C:\WINDOWS\sysguard.exe (Trojan.FakeAlert.H) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully. Shouldn't malwarebytes protect against infected flash drives that get an auto-run file installed on it, if MBAM detects the file in the first place? Before you ask, yes malwarebytes was up to date and the protection module was enabled. Or was it possible that the file that installed this wasn't detected? Confused... Thanks
  6. 1st, suggestion... For the updates, you could probably save some bandwidth if you were to implement a method of updates where you don't have to download the entire installer every time for the new version, just updated files... And second, I have questions as to what the MBAM real time protection actually does. What does it detect, and does it scan files/registry as they are edited/written? (I haven't actually experienced an attack with the real time protection on yet). What about the ever infamous IE exploits? What about an infected flash drive that tries to auto run a virus installer file? Thanks, flamewalker PC Technician
  7. I concur. Definitely one of, if not the best. Misses some minor stuff (usually registry entries or other entries that by themselves can't harm), but is able to get some of the nastiest stuff out that the others cannot. I purchased the protection module, and am currently testing it, but so far so good.
  8. The software is definately very good at what it does. Unfortunate that you have had trouble contacting them via email...I just bought the software today to test the background protection. Give them a chance to respond here IMO before you chargeback...
  9. Have you tried safe mode with networking by chance? It actually sounds like there may be something else that mbam isn't detecting... have you run any other antispyware software out there?
  10. Rest assured, this is indeed a legitimate program. If you had removed it from the Add/Remove control panel, it has always uninstalled fine for me. The worms it found, I can attest that they indeed are worms if it says they are. If you ran into problems running/removing the program, it is possible there are other malicious softwares on your computer that are still mucking about.
  11. Once you get this fixed, get Firefox... I haven't tested MBAM paid version yet (going to very shortly), so I don't know if it will protect you from those, but every time I get those redirects on Firefox, I just close the window and open a new window and I am never (at least yet) infected. If the above recommendations don't help, one useful tool I found for a one-time run cleanup to help get some of the ickies out of the way (so other software such as MBAM can do their job) is called Dr Web CureIT from drweb.com. I have only recently discovered it, and it helped for one PC I was working on... so your results may vary. It will not protect you in the future, it is purely a scan only engine.
  12. Is that what that is? I see those in my Gmail and techsupport email frequently... never opened or clicked on them though (fortunately ). I've been around the block so many times already that rarely does a new one trick me into opening/clicking
  13. I had this same issue a while back... the file was over 500mb uncompressed... it was a hacked software partially downloaded on a customer pc I was working on. Rubber Ducky, have you had any time to fix that problem yet?
  14. Do you mean overall or just with MBAM? The first time I found MBAM, there was several thousand, no joke. That PC was so horrendously destroyed by spyware, almost had to wipe and reload. Did have to do a repair install tho. Wish I had kept the logs/screenshot
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