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Been tasked with cleaning up a laptop for an aged acquaintance, he thinks it's rife with viruses etc. Already updated Avast free version & run a scan which comes back clean.
Is there any freeware the Hivemind would recommend to check for malware or spyware that Avast might have missed?
TIA
Posted : 24/01/2014 6:12 pm
Malwarebytes or SuperAntiSpyware, though the later revels in screaming about even the slightest infringement (eg: Normal website cookies)
Posted : 24/01/2014 6:17 pm
Just use the standard Microsoft virus stuff
Posted : 24/01/2014 6:17 pm
Malwarebytes is a good starting point, yes.
Posted : 24/01/2014 6:39 pm
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Sounds good. I'll give it a lash & see if anything pops up.
Cheers
Posted : 24/01/2014 6:41 pm
The windows security essentials or whatever its called is fine.
Posted : 24/01/2014 6:45 pm