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1140944 2010-10-03 21:05:00 Edited: you do of course know that PC Tools / Spyware Doctor is Now Owned by NORTON (www.pctools.com) :groan: Press Release (www.symantec.com)

It has been for a while. I wouldnt recommend the AV part of it, but the spyware scanner is the best Ive used by far.
Unfortunately, Id recommend allways removing it after spyware cleanup's. :badpc:
Im just waiting for Symantec to Kill it off or render it worthless as well :punk

_You MUST change the default settings on ANY av/spyware program if you want a good detection/cleanup AND look at what & where the detections are. The AV/spyware proggies are by default, often set to do a fast scan, not a complete scan.
Some detections may be harmless cookies, system restore, infections in old emails (that many AV proggies simply wont scan),or vulnerabilities rather than actual infections .
1101 (13337)
1140945 2010-10-04 07:52:00 Even though its free, its still a waste of your money.

roflol!!! funny guy :clap

i use to have AVG and spybot...but then avg got annoying so i dropped it, only using spybot now....been like this for over half a year, no signs of infections yet....
powerover (12121)
1140946 2010-10-04 08:06:00 If you read post #12 - the infected drive that AVG failed, and had the TIUOP.SCR-- it was a sneeky one, that was only the tip of the iceberg so to speak -- it infected any USB device as well -- 1st Ran Superantispyware from a CD, as it wouldn't install, Found and removed 979 infections, then booted from the Nod32 Bootable recovery CD - scanned, a futher 402 Infections.

Booted the Laptop - ran Combofix - 81 more -- Malwarebytes, a further 35 --- still scanning with other programs tomorrow -Oh what fun :) :nerd:
wainuitech (129)
1140947 2010-10-04 20:49:00 Bloody hell, what were they doing?? Re-install, anyone? linw (53)
1140948 2010-10-04 20:58:00 The main infections were basically two exe files, which just went nuts and started replicating by the looks of it -- Which I now have on CD -- Viruses any one ? :devil


Bloody hell, what were they doing Usual stuff, downloading music and movies with limewire.
wainuitech (129)
1140949 2010-10-04 20:59:00 You stay the hell away from me! :p SoniKalien (792)
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