Hallo there, I come here to learn. :]
After Avast blocked a “trojan” from urlfilter.vmn.net by the name of “JS:ScriptSH-inf”, I quickly googled it to see what would pop up and I found a 2009 thread about someone having the same issue as me. Was made to realize that Spybot’s tea-timer was the source.
So I am to believe this just happens when Spybot updates signatures? This is really odd.
nope seems the site is bad.
Yes, but the trojan “JS:ScriptSH-inf” came with visicom’s urlfilter which I do not remember installing as I am usually careful about where I go. Tea-timer had it.
i would replace SpyBot with malwarebytes
spybot was once a good program in the old days of spyware…but not match for todays malware
mawarebytes is absoluteley the best tool today
spybot teatimer is also know to have had conflicts with avast
I’ll second that opinion. I used to be a big Spybot S&D user until a few years ago. I’ve got my file stored on one of my drives when I did about a hard week of research and came to the conclusion that company had slipped below the useful line.
Actually, I think it was more than a “few” years ago, but I don’t give them much thought anymore and may have forgotten exactly when that happened. Let’s see, it was probably the Hacker … Box folks that clued me in to check the company and make my decision for myself, so might be about 4+ years ago.
Anyway, I second the opinion.
just take a look in all those forums that is doing free malware removal, like bleepingcomputers / majorgeeks / geeks to go…and many more. the first tool they usually run is malwarebytes…and sometimes superantispyware
you have to digg many years back in those topics before you see them run SpyBot…you can even see them run malwarebytes in SpyBot forum
Malwarebytes can have something like 10 updates released on a day, SpyBot release one a week…wednesday i think. meaning malwarebytes may have more updates on a week then spybot in a year
mbam also do constant develop of the program…there is now a new beta rootkit tool out for testing
OBS…i think spybot is working on a new version also…time will tell how good that is
I also use Window’s Defender. What’s your opinion on that?
Windows Defender is worthless and should be disabled.
about as good/bad as spybot
Spybot has been working on v2.0 for at least a year and a half.
They have 2.0 RC 3 out now. If it’s like the present one it won’t be worth the time to download. ;D
I ran an XP Pro computer for a little while on the internet wth Spybot/Teatimer enabled, but with Avast or another anti-virus program, on the theory that any register updates would show up.
After a problem made me realize that I was infected, I installed Avast and did a boot-level scan. It found about 100 (!!) virus files.
I don’t consider Spybot to be a useful barrier at this point.
Thanks for the advice. :]
Also i went to check when Visicom’s “urlfilter” was installed and the date for it was 3-12-2012. That’s creepy.