AVG good for detection - poor at removing

[zobbo]

AVG good for detection - poor at removing ?

Does anyone else find this ?

 

[electronicsfreak]

Yeah I have noticed some things like that. If your having problems removing viruses try safe mode or find an antivirus like solo antivirus that has a dos based scanner also. Also avg is a pretty good antivirus for being free however in my opinion and note this is opinion not fact, I personally prefer F-Prot although there demo is not very good.

 

[pechenegs]

Many anti-viruses have good detection but poor removal, Panda is another example, but using an excellent utility like the killbox and delete on reboot method usually shifts the most stubborn of virus or trojan, or boot to safe mode and use standard file kill in killbox!


I've also read Anti-vir has better detection rates than AVG? They're all roughly the same for detection rates, AVG7, Avast and Anti Vir!


Anti-vir

http://www.free-av.com/

Avast 4 from

http://www.avast.com

Download the pocket killbox

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/files/killbox.php

 

[LadySlinger]

I just had a bug on my system. AVG claims it removed it, but it's still there.

It is good at detecting, but like you said it isn't very good at removing. I've used AVG plus 3 different Spyware (Windows AS, spybot & Ad-ware) and got stop the random pop ups!

I'm just going to go out and buy protection.

 

[erikhertzel]

Try using this:

http://www.ewido.net/en/

Download it and run an update and do a complete system scan. It's free...

Hope that helps,

Erik

 

[sggaunt]

Ewido gets mentions quite a lot and it did find an object on my own machine that everything else had missed.
But although the download is free, the software times out after 14 days and looses some funtionality.
Including online updating.

Steve: Delphi a feersum engin indeed.

 

[pechenegs]

you just update ewido manually after the 14 days is up, it doesn't offer it's security guard but still an excellent progrmame to have as a scanner!

 

[LadySlinger]

Thanks for the suggestion Erik!

Ewido did clean up some, but not all. It says its unable to get rid of the spyware.Look2Me files. I did go to symantec's site and download the removal tool for that bug, but it's still coming up in Ewido's scans.

It is a pretty awesome tool!!

 

[pechenegs]

if you have Xp download and run this tool for L2me!


Download L2mfix from one of these two locations:

http://www.atribune.org/downloads/l2mfix.exe

http://www.downloads.subratam.org/l2mfix.exe

Save the file to your desktop and double click l2mfix.exe. Read and Accept the agreement. Click the Install button to extract the files and follow the prompts, then open the newly added l2mfix folder on your desktop. Double click l2mfix.bat and select option #1 for Run Find Logby typing 1 and then pressing enter. This will scan your computer and it may appear nothing is happening, then, after a minute or 2, notepad will open with a log. Copy the contents of that log and paste it into this thread.

post the log here which l2me makes!