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white_darkness

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Re: Need a zero impact anti virus for windows 7
« Reply #15 on: March 18, 2011, 06:31:52 am »

Microsoft Security Essentials, good enough that the "major" (commercial) malware defense manufacturers threatened M$ with a lawsuit if they offered it free in every "new" build of Windows (I think Millenium Second Edition and 7 onward).
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Re: Need a zero impact anti virus for windows 7
« Reply #16 on: March 18, 2011, 06:54:25 am »

I recently had a virus that was proving very hard to get rid of - I tried about half a dozen different solutions and it was still kicking about. Spyware search and destroy sorted it out.
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Re: Need a zero impact anti virus for windows 7
« Reply #17 on: April 04, 2011, 09:44:06 am »

Fortunately I have an update...

It turned out that my virus like behavior?... wasn't a virus.

My ISP was just crap and for some reason was blocking a whole host of google, microsoft and anti-virus sites.

Its fixed now, just had to wait it out.
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Re: Need a zero impact anti virus for windows 7
« Reply #18 on: April 04, 2011, 09:55:19 am »

Fortunately I have an update...

It turned out that my virus like behavior?... wasn't a virus.

My ISP was just crap and for some reason was blocking a whole host of google, microsoft and anti-virus sites.

Its fixed now, just had to wait it out.
Yea Qwest did that for me. Told them to fuck off and switched my DNS to FreeDNS

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Re: Need a zero impact anti virus for windows 7
« Reply #19 on: April 04, 2011, 10:08:44 am »


Do people outside the USA ever have to deal with ISP dirty games like this?

I've asked Korean and German colleagues, and they tell me the population would simply never permit that kind of nonsense.

Verizon, in particular, is getting downright criminal in how far they will go.
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Re: Need a zero impact anti virus for windows 7
« Reply #20 on: April 04, 2011, 11:14:36 am »

Thats interesting.  I have Verizon, and have zero problems.
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Re: Need a zero impact anti virus for windows 7
« Reply #21 on: April 04, 2011, 11:15:52 am »


Do people outside the USA ever have to deal with ISP dirty games like this?

I've asked Korean and German colleagues, and they tell me the population would simply never permit that kind of nonsense.

Verizon, in particular, is getting downright criminal in how far they will go.

Qwest's DNS purposely redirects you to ads. My father thought it was adware or something but no it was goddamn DNS, switched that real fast.

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Re: Need a zero impact anti virus for windows 7
« Reply #22 on: April 04, 2011, 11:27:10 am »

Fortunately I have an update...

It turned out that my virus like behavior?... wasn't a virus.

My ISP was just crap and for some reason was blocking a whole host of google, microsoft and anti-virus sites.

Its fixed now, just had to wait it out.

https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/

It probably won't do much for you now, but if enough people speak up, it might keep 'em on their toes a bit next time...
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Re: Need a zero impact anti virus for windows 7
« Reply #23 on: April 05, 2011, 07:59:53 pm »

Also won't do you much good now, given there is no virus to deal with, but for the record, one of the (several) tools I use to identify malware is SuperAntiSpyware.

One problem is that this looks like, and has been ripped off as, fake anti-malware, so be sure you're getting a legit version and not one that's been re-engineered to actually infect your computer.  (Or something that's been made to look like it.)  I forget exactly where I got my original copy, which now happily sits on a number of my memory sticks, so be careful in your Google-Fu.


But, in particular, the version I use is a single .com file (old-fashioned executable).  You can download this and several other alternate executable versions (.scr is another, IIRC) so that "anti-malware aware malwares", such as ones that complain when "mbam*.exe" is being run, and thus stops you from installing MalwareBytes or using an already-installed copy of same, can be got around.  It's a single file and always needs updating each time it's started (the installable version would probably keep its information between one run and another), so Safe Mode With Networking and a valid ethernet connection to the internet is generally the environment I run it in.  (Which also tends to nullify the "executable-hooking" aspects of the malware, but that might not be universally true.)


As to the reality of your situation, I can't quite believe that an ISP is doing what I think you're saying its doing.  I know I'd certainly not appreciate it.
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Re: Need a zero impact anti virus for windows 7
« Reply #24 on: April 12, 2011, 02:00:59 am »

Microsoft security essentials for the win.  I talk it up to all my friends.  However, if you already have the virus, antivirus software might be too late to save you depending on how bad it is.  Microsoft security essentials hasn't let me down yet, I've been using it since it came out.  Its very low key on your system, almost too low key, as it'll block everything with barely a ding in the corner of the tray to let you know it stopped something, but its effective no doubt.
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