Anyone have experience of Malwarebytes?...

[charliehorse]

+ another one for malewarebytes free Raffles

my girlfriends 9 year old son has a terrible habit of downloading things without unticking the boxes that add toolbars and change browser home pages and such like - now I have already put avast antivirus on her laptop but when the wee rouge grants permissions for all these things to run then that's not going to stop the nasties from installing and running and generally reeking havoc.
On the first scan malwarebytes found and quarantined 53 "pups" or potentially unwanted programs ! 53 !

Its extremely easy to use as well

[chykensa]

I have Spybot S & D, Malwarebytes, CCleaner, and of course Avast! on my machine, and if I remember to run them regularly they work a treat! As you can see, I hate paying for software unless I can help it

[igual]

CCleaner is a great little prog would recommend to everyone.http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download

[leo]

Sept 10, 2014 22:22:44 GMT charliehorse said:

+ another one for malewarebytes free Raffles

my girlfriends 9 year old son has a terrible habit of downloading things without unticking the boxes that add toolbars and change browser home pages and such like - now I have already put avast antivirus on her laptop but when the wee rouge grants permissions for all these things to run then that's not going to stop the nasties from installing and running and generally reeking havoc.
On the first scan malwarebytes found and quarantined 53 "pups" or potentially unwanted programs ! 53 !

Its extremely easy to use as well

A very useful security tip that people often overlook in situations like your girlfriends, is to make a second user account for the nipper. Do not give the account administrator rights, and password protect her own account. He won't be able to install anything without the password, and if she wants him to install something she can go through it with him and double check what's being installed.
Added bonus is that if he does manage to naus something up, it's less likely to affect her data.
My daughter had her own laptop since the age of about 9, and I always made sure there was an administrator account, and a second account for her. In day-to-day use, web browsing and whatnot, you'd never know.

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Sept 11, 2014 6:57:13 GMT leo said:

Sept 10, 2014 22:22:44 GMT charliehorse said:

+ another one for malewarebytes free Raffles

my girlfriends 9 year old son has a terrible habit of downloading things without unticking the boxes that add toolbars and change browser home pages and such like - now I have already put avast antivirus on her laptop but when the wee rouge grants permissions for all these things to run then that's not going to stop the nasties from installing and running and generally reeking havoc.
On the first scan malwarebytes found and quarantined 53 "pups" or potentially unwanted programs ! 53 !

Its extremely easy to use as well

A very useful security tip that people often overlook in situations like your girlfriends, is to make a second user account for the nipper. Do not give the account administrator rights, and password protect her own account. He won't be able to install anything without the password, and if she wants him to install something she can go through it with him and double check what's being installed.
Added bonus is that if he does manage to naus something up, it's less likely to affect her data.
My daughter had her own laptop since the age of about 9, and I always made sure there was an administrator account, and a second account for her. In day-to-day use, web browsing and whatnot, you'd never know.

Or else your nipper will install Linux and begin programming and that'll do nipper no harm

Seriously I don't use windows right now (I'm on an old mac) but if I did I'd use everything that chykensa said....McAfee/Norton - same cigalike, different name

Might be worth a live CD of Linux (can't remember what's good? Maybe Puppy Linux don't know?) just to check system...

I figure that I'm falling out of love with macs after doing some research yesterday (from the guy that told me about fast tech ages ago ) so won't be buying a new mac when this one dies ...will get a cheap basic second hand lappy and bung Linux on it

Simples

[Super-Shiny]

Raffles if you are going to DL Malwarebytes you might also want to DL SuperAntiSpyware as it sometimes picks things up that Malwarebytes does not.

I use both side by side and they both work great.

p.s As with anything free when installing make sure to un-check anything along the way that the software is offering.

List of software i use and i never get any problems:

Ccleaner
Malwarebytes
Superantispyware
Microsoft Security Essentials



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[charliehorse]

Sept 11, 2014 6:57:13 GMT leo said:

Sept 10, 2014 22:22:44 GMT charliehorse said:

+ another one for malewarebytes free Raffles

my girlfriends 9 year old son has a terrible habit of downloading things without unticking the boxes that add toolbars and change browser home pages and such like - now I have already put avast antivirus on her laptop but when the wee rouge grants permissions for all these things to run then that's not going to stop the nasties from installing and running and generally reeking havoc.
On the first scan malwarebytes found and quarantined 53 "pups" or potentially unwanted programs ! 53 !

Its extremely easy to use as well

A very useful security tip that people often overlook in situations like your girlfriends, is to make a second user account for the nipper. Do not give the account administrator rights, and password protect her own account. He won't be able to install anything without the password, and if she wants him to install something she can go through it with him and double check what's being installed.
Added bonus is that if he does manage to naus something up, it's less likely to affect her data.
My daughter had her own laptop since the age of about 9, and I always made sure there was an administrator account, and a second account for her. In day-to-day use, web browsing and whatnot, you'd never know.

Yeah, you would think that would work, wouldn't you.

It was the first thing I did after her sister had a loan of the laptop, dropped laptop, knackered hard drive in laptop

New hard drive - nice clean fresh install of win 7 - everyone with their own password etc.

All well and good till she gets fed up and just tells him the password

Not that's she's any better at watching what she's doing, technology and her don't go together, so the chances of her going through it with him are slim to non existent lol.

I just accept that every now and again I've got to clean it out and put things back into a reasonable state.

Gives me something to do when i'm not fixing the hoover     

[Raffles]

OK... have downloaded and done a scan. It's come up with 200+ suspect files, but is expecting me to decide on their future. How do you decide that?

[thatguy]

If malwarebytes thinks it's malware, then trust it. I've used this program for over 5 years and never had it trash anything I needed.

If it trashes something you use, then you shouldn't really be using it in the first place. Honestly, trust the software, It wont lead you astray.

[chykensa]

Raffles - which software have you run? Usually you can trust the software to quarantine the dodgy files, preventing them to do any more damage. Spybot finds clicktrackers, cookies, keystroke loggers, and all other sorts of nasties which can be safely shoved in a folder (by Spybot), so just click the 'Fix' button and let it do the job for you, no need to delete them individually.
200 files, that was worth doing, might make a considerable difference to speed and efficiency!

[zedsdead]

Sept 10, 2014 22:22:44 GMT charliehorse said:

+ another one for malewarebytes free Raffles

my girlfriends 9 year old son has a terrible habit of downloading things without unticking the boxes that add toolbars and change browser home pages and such like - now I have already put avast antivirus on her laptop but when the wee rouge grants permissions for all these things to run then that's not going to stop the nasties from installing and running and generally reeking havoc.
On the first scan malwarebytes found and quarantined 53 "pups" or potentially unwanted programs ! 53 !

Its extremely easy to use as well

on the new clean account of 9 year old install rxrestore, it will wipe all the previous session when you reboot including the desktop(take care with that). 

[charliehorse]

Sept 22, 2014 20:03:33 GMT zedsdead said:

Sept 10, 2014 22:22:44 GMT charliehorse said:

+ another one for malewarebytes free Raffles

my girlfriends 9 year old son has a terrible habit of downloading things without unticking the boxes that add toolbars and change browser home pages and such like - now I have already put avast antivirus on her laptop but when the wee rouge grants permissions for all these things to run then that's not going to stop the nasties from installing and running and generally reeking havoc.
On the first scan malwarebytes found and quarantined 53 "pups" or potentially unwanted programs ! 53 !

Its extremely easy to use as well

on the new clean account of 9 year old install rxrestore, it will wipe all the previous session when you reboot including the desktop(take care with that). 

Thanks for the suggestion, but as I say, things like that only work when he logs into his own account and since my g/f let slip all the passwords that never happens.
Also, rebooting seems to be a dirty word in their house, both as bad as each other for just shutting the lid and letting it sleep, or worse, letting it die all the time on battery power.
I have tried and failed to persuade them to change their ways and have resigned myself to cleaning it out once in a while.
They never ever ever get to interfere with my laptop,phone or tablet for obvious reasons 

[mybad]

Up graded my pc about 4 weks ago to win7 , was running norton360 for about 4yr with no problems on the old one but started playing up an all that jazz hence the time for the up graed , so anyways the new pc came with only Microsoft Security Essentials on it and with in 3 days I had all sorts of nasties on it , so a quick download of malwearbytes seemed to do its job until I decided to get another virus protection installed, so I decided to go with one called bitdefender and its absolutely brilliant.

[ronaldo]

haven't tried bitdefender but have heard good tings about it I had Kaspersky on my computer and it was total crap would have been better off with nothing at all it was a powerful brand new machine that ran like a slug

[zedsdead]

All antivirus is a waste of time, ask an expert:

Antivirus software is dead, says security expert at Symantec

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