re: Need Free Virus Scan
Sunday, July 11, 2010 at 1:50 am
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Just Me
(24 messages posted)
One thing is to never relie on one virus scanner.
Also you need to run a full time firewall, preferably rule based that you can
block access by program and even block things you wouldn't think of, such as windows
internal apps, your virus scanners, firewalls, etc. you should also run an app for
adware and trojans, many anti-virus apps do look for these, but best to be safe,
plus you should read about the versions of windows, etc. you are using and know how
things work.
Another couple of tools to use are "ProcessExplorer" and "Autoruns", the company
"System Internals" that made them is now part of microsoft, but their apps are still
free from microsoft.
Now for older versions of windows you may need old versions of process explorer
and autoruns as the newest versions have beed butchered by microsoft with a dialler
and some other changes and don't work on some WinME and win98/95 systems.
I recomend you goto these shareware sites for freeware/GPL software
http://win.softpedia.com/
Softpedia is one of my current favs, not perfect, but lots of apps.
http://download.cnet.com/windows/
http://www.tucows.com/
Tucows used to be really good, not as much these days but they do keep older versions
on their servers.
I like "panda anti-virus" as far as finding problems, but its a dam the torpedo's
full delete a head of virus, etc. which can be anoying if you have something you
need to save, so save any needed stuff first. then you can find some other app that
may save the corupted file.
"Ad-aware" is a pretty good adware scanner.
"TDS-3" is an old anti-trojan but it will still find stuff most others won't.
Disable system restore on WinMe if you get a virus or trojan and then see your
backup files in c:\window\sysrestore usaly one will be much larger, move it out of
there, take one of the other files copy it to another dir and rename it to the restore
file you moved, so you have as many backups as posible while you fix things, I copy
these things out every so offten so I have backup copys save a lot of trouble just
put ths old restore files in boot on a floppy goto c:\windows and start "scanreg"
click on restore and away you go.
An app that seems to work well if you hoose your partition map is "PTDD Partition
Table Doctor 3.5".
And if you have a messed up dir structure then use "EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard
Professional 3.3.4"
On win95/98/ME "Nortons utilitys" "undelete", "unformat" and "ndd" are ok, I don't
recomend installing the norton tools as they are a resource hog, you can run these
threer apps with out an install, and right off the cdrom if necasary.
If you have more than one CDROM turn off auto insert notification to avoid the
CDROM seek off death, ware windows goes back and forth between CDROMS slowing a machine
to a snail.
Nortons anti-virus sucks, its bloated and drags a system into hour glass hell.
A program called "NFR" "nasty file remover" formaly "Nvidia file remover" it removes
old video drivers, a big help if going from an Nvidia card to another brand, Nvidia
drivers leaves lots of crap around.
"A-squared Anti-Malware" is another one I've used, it was recomended to me.
"Spybot - Search & Destroy" is another app I've used it was also recomened to
me.
I recomend putting in the "Tweak UI" (the 133 version works on win95/98/ME) extensions
in windows control pannel.
"X-setup" has a lot of good options for control pannel too.
"RegSeeker" is an old app I use that fixes a few windows bugs.
"regclean" is another old app I use it also fixes a few windows bugs and cleans
out jun in the registry.
I also run the "directx" test app "dxdiag.exe" if I have changed video drivers
and there are problems latter, you may have to expand this out of a directx installer.
Any version dxdiag will work.
Anyway just a few ideas.
Oh and check out the oldversions and oldapps sites too.
One last thought goto www.grc.com to test that firewall app once you got it setup.
- Written in response to:
- Need Free Virus Scan (elmoticky: Saturday, July 10, 2010 at 6:13 am)
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