I did a Boot time scan with nothing found, Quick Scan, Full Scan, Special Scan on Memory with nothing found. Opened my e-mail client and one message had an attachment and I attempted to DELETE that one message and nothing could be done, so I turned my system off and rebooted. Did not open my e-mail client and ran another Special Scan on Memory and now have 42 items detected all HIGH threat but 2 are Low threat. Cannot move these items to Chest nor Delete them. Reboot system again and they are still there in Memory.
Still my system checks clean using MSE, SuperAntiSpyWare and Avast v6.0.1289. All are updated daily or more often if available.
My system is Dell Inspiron 1564 Intel Dual Core processor 2.13Gig clock 4gig RAM.
Have not posted here very much because there have not been any problem, `til now . .
detection in memory can not be moved since it is not a file…but a process
also the use of the “scan memory” setting often give some strange scan results…the forum is full if you search
you say you are running MSE also…my guess is that the detecion is MSE virus signatures loaded in memory
can you attach a screenshot of the scan result ?
If you do not know what will happen when you change your settings…
i recomend using the default quick/full scan with default scan settings
they are default bc they are the best for the average user
Thank you for this response plus the others above, also about the advice about the running of more than one AntiVirus scanner. It has been noted and have been advised of this many times over plus being threatened by one on this forum that I could be banned it I did not stop posting about running more than one.
I thought these forums were to get some help with our systems along with good advice, which is what I have gotten along with a little more. I manage my own system and do take advice into consideration and make my own decisions as to how to operate and maintain same. I am very familiar with how to keep my system running and in good shape, just needing a little help now and then with where to look for things and how to remove some of the ‘unwanteds’, not very often do I get those ‘unwanted’ items.
I am not advocating the use of more than one AntiVirus program nor advise any other to do the same as I am doing, my system is a 64bit O/S plus dual booting all installed by myself. Not completely stupid just need a little assistance now and again.
Your point is accepted and taken into consideration as mentioned above and I do thank you for posting same here. Did not know that some of the signatures from MSSE were stored in memory and am not that worried about it any longer because of your information.
Keep up the good work and do not become offended from this post. Also would like to apologize for this late repy as I have been doing other duties here because I am my own auto mechanic, computer specialist, admin, gardener, house keeper, and cook/bottle washer.
You have obviously been very lucky so far with using two Av’s on the same system but serious problems are more than likely still comming your way.
You are actually weakening your security levels buy running these together and at the time when both of these av’s detect the same thing then you are going to end up with issues.
Of course advertising the use of two AV’s cannot be condoned on any security forum because that is just plain and simple bad practice.
Not to derail the thread, but I wonder how G-Data does it with two engines. Of course they are made to work together but it seems to some extent it’s still two AV engines running. Most of the time it’s clearly a bad idea and I don’t disagree with that.
I don’t recommend it, I’ve been running Panda (cloud av) along with avast! since it’s detection rates have been going down in testing (AV-Comparatives). For over a month they’ve been running together with no issues. I would never try this but I have Rollback Rx and can easily just reboot to an earlier time if something goes wrong.
Well G-Data like other twin engine av’s are solely in control of what happens within itself giving greater leeway and understanding of detections within itself as apposed to two separate av’s that really have no knowledge of what the other is doing.
I tried Panda Cloud for a few hours, it was alright for the first couple of hours then it really started to bog down and make my system less responsive, Panda Cloud does still have an on board scanner but i think it was only on demand, didn’t get that much into it but if i were you i would still be extreemly cautious running the two together.
There is a slight difference here two engines under the control of one interface and that would also include the low level drivers that would intercept calls to run a file, the low level driver (hook) would call the scanning routine. But in the case of GData the file would be scanned first with one engine and then the next; so it isn’t the same as two separate resident AVs installed both with low level drivers fighting to hook the file to scan it.
Personally I wouldn’t recommend it either.
I take my avast performance from my on real life experience (and what I see in these forums), rather than artificial on-demand test scans aren’t going to exactly match real life (even though AV-Comparatives is one of the better test organisations). Here is where the web shield is in a class of its own and quite frankly I don’t think this even gets tested.
Agreed. But I have had a couple things slip by recently, and I am a very careful user. Two issues in 6 months is high for me. I like avast enough to pay for it, so I’m not dumping on them, just looking for ways to make sure everything is secure and removed when necessary.
For what it’s worth, upon further reflection I did remove Panda this morning.
How did these slip by, e.g. were they web based exploits, hacked sites, etc. ?
I use firefox, with NoScript and RequestPolicy add-ons and they go a long way to stop scripts running driveby downloads/installations and cross site scripting hacks/exploits.
I don’t recall with the first one, but the last was from an innocent website that apparently got something attached to it. It was a “HTML:frame-inf” It came through Chrome (which I don’t normally use). FF blocked it if I remember correctly. That was how I got to thinking something was in need of a closer look. Later Chrome blocked it but prior to that avast didn’t notice it either until later a scan was done. But I know this can happen at times. I don’t know what that kind of thing does but I want to minimize those events as does everyone else.
Additionally, avast had an error in trying to remove it, so I had to rollback the system to make sure it was gone. So not only did the program I like miss it initially, it could not remove it once found. That was concerning.