Newbie

[mattblack]

Hi All,

I'm a newbie to this forum and just thought I'd introduce myself. I work in Information Security in London, UK and work specifically with local government in London. Whilst I have a little technical knowledge, I would not consider myself to be a techie so I hope to be using this forum a lot in the future!

A colleague of mine recommended MBAM to me the other day so I thought I would give it a try on a home PC. So far, I've been really impressed - it's picked up a load of stuff which my regular software (AVG & Ad-aware) did not.

One thing it picked up was a Rootkit.Agent which I can't seem to get rid of. I've seen a lot of similar stories on the forum so I will go away, have a look around and, if necessary, post in the correct place.

Cheers,

mattblack

[Blaze]

Hi mattblack, welcome to the forum .

Hope you enjoy your time here, and if you need help with Malware Removal, you can follow the directions here:

malware removal

Alternatively, you can post a log in the following forum:

HiJack This logs

[noknojon]

Hello mattblack ,Welcome to Malwarebytes.org

As you will notice the forum consists of people from around the globe (I'm an Aussie, but don't hold that against me)

If you think that you may still have infections then you are always welcome to follow the directions below at any time -

As we don't work on Malware removal or diagnostics in the general forums please read on - This is a free service -

Please print out, read, and follow the directions here, skipping any steps you are unable to complete. Then post a NEW topic here.

One of the expert helpers there will give you one-on-one assistance when one becomes available.

After posting your new post make sure under options that you select Track this topic and choose one of the Email options so that you're alerted when someone has replied to your post - As our experts are a bit busy at the moment we ask all to be a bit patient -

Welcome and Thank you -

[mattblack]

Thank you both for your pointers!

[DarkSnakeKobra]

Hi mattblack,

I would consider dropping avg and ad-aware nether of them are as good as they use to be. Here is a good list of anti-viruses. Also consider replacing Ad-Aware for suprantispyware which does a great job.

Microsoft Security Essentials- Microsoft has created a good lightweight anti-virus for home users . MSE does very well on detection,removal and low false positives.

http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/

Avast!- Avast by Alwil does very well and has some useful features such as the boot scan. Also you are required to register every 14 months for a free license which is also free.

http://www.avast.com

Avira Antivir- Avira does very well in detection rates and has some of the best protection for a free software. The only issue with avira is that free users receive an annoying ad at least once a day on update.

http://www.free-av.com

[Ibrad]

If you do ever drop AVG I recommend Panda Cloud antivirus. It is very good a protecting a system from malware.