Re: Infected by ciadoor.13

From: "Art" <null@xxxxxxxxx>

| On Tue, 30 May 2006 22:06:06 GMT, "David H. Lipman"
| <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote:
|
|> I feel sorry for those users who grind through all four scanners with
|> all the data base updating, and hours of wearing out their drives when
|> it doesn't buy them much at all, if anything, over just using
|> KAVDOS32.
|
KAVDOS32 *only* works on files, not on the Registry since it is a for DOS program.
Sophos, McAfee and Trend Micro are Win32 apps.
|
| So you're saying that these other scanners are effective with registry
| cleaning? I was under the impression that many av are ineffective in
| that regard.
|
| A problem I see far too often with McAfee and some other scanners
| is their growing tendency to not be able to distinguish variants, even
| to the point of misidentification in some cases. That puts those
| scanners in a poor position to do a malware cleanup, it would seem.
|
There are advantages and disadvantages of each scanner and they could NOT just be
replaced by KAVDO32.
|
| Perhaps not, but if KAVDOS32 finds nothing, I see no point in scanning
| entire drives with the others. Only if KAVDOS32 fails to do a cleanup
| would I see a purpose in trying a different scanner which could be
| aimed at a limited number of folders/files.
|
| Art
| http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg
|

It is my understanding they do. However, with non-viral malware, there are so many Registry
changes that the anti spyware applications exceed in that area.

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm


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