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Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware

April 2nd, 2009 2 comments

In my last post about Securing your Online transactions we have seen how to avoid Man-in-the-middle attack. Consider the following situation

A spy may be lurking on your system without your knowledge, secretly stealing your valuable data, such as credit information, typed in web addresses, online bank accounts etc. How to detect and remove them?

Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware

Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware is an easy to use anti-malware application that can thoroughly remove even the most advanced malware.
It has several extra utilities for manual malware removal. The program is available in many languages and works just fine with other anti-viral and anti-spyware software.

 

Its database can be updated on a regular basis to detect the latest outbreaks.
Overall a great little tool and quite capable for it’s size.

 

malwarebytesanti_malware

Features:

  • Effective heuristic detection.
  • Light speed quick scanning.
  • Ability to perform full scans for all drives.
  • Quarantine to hold threats and restore them when needed.
  • A small list of extra utilities to help remove malware manually
  • Works together with other anti-malware utilities.
  • Command line support for quick scanning.
  • Context menu integration to scan files on demand.

OS: Windows 10®, Windows 8.1®, Windows 8®, Windows 7®, Windows Vista® (32-bit, 64-bit), Windows XP® (32-bit)

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Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware

April 2nd, 2009 2 comments

In my last post about Securing your Online transactions we have seen how to avoid Man-in-the-middle attack. Consider the following situation

A spy may be lurking on your system without your knowledge, secretly stealing your valuable data, such as credit information, typed in web addresses, online bank accounts etc. How to detect and remove them?

Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware

Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware is an easy to use anti-malware application that can thoroughly remove even the most advanced malware.
It has several extra utilities for manual malware removal. The program is available in many languages and works just fine with other anti-viral and anti-spyware software.

 

Its database can be updated on a regular basis to detect the latest outbreaks.
Overall a great little tool and quite capable for it’s size.

 

malwarebytesanti_malware

Features:

  • Effective heuristic detection.
  • Light speed quick scanning.
  • Ability to perform full scans for all drives.
  • Quarantine to hold threats and restore them when needed.
  • A small list of extra utilities to help remove malware manually
  • Works together with other anti-malware utilities.
  • Command line support for quick scanning.
  • Context menu integration to scan files on demand.

OS: Windows 10®, Windows 8.1®, Windows 8®, Windows 7®, Windows Vista® (32-bit, 64-bit), Windows XP® (32-bit)

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USBDeview : Free Extended USB information utility

February 27th, 2009 No comments

A small utility that lists all USB devices currently connected to your computer, as well as the history of USB devices attached.
Extended information like Device name/description, device type, serial number (for mass storage devices), the date/time that device was added, VendorID, ProductID are also displayed.
The devices which are currently connected are shown in green.
You can individually uninstall & reinstall faulty drivers.

usbview

USBDeview allows you to execute exe/cmd/bat file whenever a USB device is inserted to your system. In order to use this feature, go to ‘Options->Advanced Options’, select the ‘Execute..’ check-box, and type the exe/cmd file that you want to run.Use this option to make your Antivirus software to scan the Mass storage device to avoid the chance of virus infections in an effective way.

Consider this situation:
You bought a generic usb thumb drive which worked fine on your newer machines, but you wanted to use it on an old Win98 system. Lacking a Win98 driver, it is difficult. Then use USBDeview to find the vendor code of the generic drive, look on their web site, you may find a Win98 driver for some of their name brand drives.

OS : Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista. Windows 98/ME is not supported

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