[THIN] Re: OT: MalWare removal programs?

  • From: "Mark Mucher" <mmucher@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 21:46:58 -0400

Jim,

I use Trend OfficeScan (on 2003 SBS), but it never has found anything.  Has
it for you?

The usual suspects (Ad-Aware, Spy-Bot) find tracking cookies, but no real
malware - maybe that's why...

Mark


 

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Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: MalWare removal programs?

Trend Officescan


Tasita Ebacher wrote:

> I know this topic has been discussed a lot lately, but I have 
> questions about it no one has asked yet!
> 
> I've started demo-ing PestPatrol's corporate edition software.  I like 
> all of it's features and it seems like it would work, but there is a 
> problem.  I tried to do a "Specific path" scan of my Citrix user's 
> roaming profiles.  It didn't find ANY spyware.  Odd, because AdAware's 
> free version found nearly 300 instances of malware!  I thought maybe I 
> wasn't typing the path how it was needed, so I scanned "all drives" 
> and it still didn't find anything in my roaming profiles!
> 
> Anyone have any suggestions either for PestPatrol to get it to find 
> all the problems, OR for a different corporate anti-spyware software 
> that has the cool features of PestPatrol (scheduled scans, scanning 
> network PC's without the users knowledge, etc) but that does actually 
> find the malware in roaming profiles in a specific area?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Tasita Ebacher
> 702 Communications
> Data Systems Engineer

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