“It sure does”, you must be thinking. Viruses, trojans, spyware, adware, rootkits, all this malicious software sneaking on to your computer really bites.
My current favorite malware remover is “Malwarebytes“. It finds and removes things that other programs have trouble with. I’ve even used it to remove the Vundo trojan, which is one of the most difficult.
Where I used to recommend that people install and frequently run Spybot or AdAware, I am now recommending that they run Malwarebytes instead. The free version is all I’ve used. They have a version you can buy that runs continually in the background scanning files, just like AVG, McAfee or Norton do, but I haven’t tried it and so cannot recommend it.
Go to their web site and click on the ‘Download Now” link on the left side of the screen.
4 responses so far ↓
1 Richard // Dec 14, 2008 at 4:10 pm
I like it!
2 Don // Dec 14, 2008 at 4:11 pm
It didn’t find anything on the 3 machines I installed it on. Maybe AVG is doing it’s thing correctly.
3 Daryl // Dec 15, 2008 at 10:19 am
It’s interesting that this posting has received more spam comments than everything else I’ve posted in the several months combined. In the two days it’s been up I’ve had 5 or 6 spam comments.
Of course they don’t make it to the web page since they are unknown writers and WordPress requires my approval. I’m guessing it’s the word “malware” that is catching their attention, but I’m not really sure.
4 Don // Dec 15, 2008 at 7:46 pm
I almost never get spam that I have to deal with using WP 2.3+ and Akismet. That’s one of the best spamkillers for a WordPress blog.
I’m actually using WP 2.7 but it’s had Akismet since 2.something around 3.