Hello all! First post so bear with me; Yesterday I upgraded from 4.8 to 5.0. I had some items in the chest on 4.8; and now I have 5.0 (I did do a scan) it does not find them (from 4.8). I did not remove, repair or delete the items in the 4.8 chest. With that being said, my question is where are they? Is my system still clean? 5.0 scan did not find anything. This whole mess started because I got that AntiVirus 2010 on my machine. Currently running zone alarm, malwarebytes, and avast 5.0. Ad-Aware is in the dugout, and has been run previously as well, but running full time (for malware) is malwarebytes.
Also, would you say that avast 5.0 has a build it Anti-Key logger, or is this something that I need separately? Or is Zone alarm covering that base.
I think the system is clean now; it was not doing what it was doing before.
Thanks.
They are gone, history, off to meet their creator (hopefully) in the ether. They aren’t on your system and they don’t pose a threat.
Seriously avast 5.0 as part of the installation process completely removes avast 4.8.
AdAware is somewhat behind the times it hasn’t kept pace with todays malware, so SAS and MBAM are two that I use also.
avast doesn’t have an anti-keylogger as such but it does detect keylogger files (there is a problem in some legit keyloggers) but like all things in life nothing is 100%.
Excellent! Thanks for the reply. That ‘infection’ had me so freaked out! I was never sure about where they went (after the upgrade). I have ran so many scans in safe, and regular mode I was confident, but you hear so many people telling you to bomb the drive you never are really sure.
The last scans have not resulted in any illegal activity. 1 false positive, from an audio cutter program which I sent in to avast for review.
It didn’t really register to me till now, I guess a key-logger (if I had one) would have to ‘transmit’ the data, so then it would get stopped by zone alarm; as well as avast; wouldn’t you say?
Yes, there is no point in collecting data if it isn’t going to be transmitted and a firewall with outbound protection should go some way to prevent that.