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        <title><![CDATA[Wow!]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-339091-3747227]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[You do realize that you are posting to a thread that is over 2 years old?  Yet your primary concern is with grammar and spelling, and all you have to say is some childish remark about other members.  Guess what Joe...the group already left this discussion 2 years ago and you are talking to...an empty room.  Feeling better about your command of the English language and your Spelling Bee Championship from elementary school that you were just awarded?  Wizard57MTR Moderator]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2013 13:00:56 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Giving this site a shot, BUT]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Wow, with the two previous posts I read, &quot;definately&quot;? (definitely misspelled!), and a complete lack of punctuation before that. Are these educated people? I'll go look at more of the site now, leave the couple guys that I saw to play with their Speak and Spells.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[joecseko]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2013 09:53:52 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Yes - MBam / ComboFix / TDSSKiller / SuperAntiSpyware]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Yes I agree - hard to have just 10 - BUT - - MBam / ComboFix / TDSSKiller / SuperAntiSpyware - have gotten rid of more, in my experience than MS Removal tools and many more. I have heard good things about MSE also - have installed in on a couple of Machines - good list - but top 10 should at least include MBam and ComboFix.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[eyesak@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 12:34:08 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Only need these 3 to clean infections...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[1. MBAM2. Spybot S&amp;D3. CombofixWith friends and family constantly asking me to clean PC's &amp; Laptops these 3 have never failed me. If you have a stubborn infection you cannot get rid of, disable System Restore, reboot &amp; use these 3 programs for easy and free infection removal.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[craig.rodgers2]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 13:09:02 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Windows Secrets...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[also employs at least one MVP, and several writers with the same credentials, and nobody is accusing them of favoritism?Now if you were to say this about ZDNet, I might agree, but then I hate ZDNet, so I digress.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[JCitizen]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 12:11:36 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I would count you lucky....]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[as every one of my clients that have attempted to use AVG has ended up with a hosed system. Some of them were hosed by malware, and the rest were hosed by AVG!!!(edited) You may be misunderstanding why I mention more than one AV here. AdAware Free does not run an active anti-virus, only a passive one. This is how I can run more than one anti-virus. You cannot run more than one AV real time protection scheme; I've seen some systems get hosed doing that.Also you could add Prevx to that list, as it is a cloud based solution, that does not interfer with the installed AV. It is also a kernel space solution, that is impossible to conflict with anything other than other kernel space solutions. I quit using it because it is not as affective as Rapport for protecting against spy session riding, and it conflicts with Defense + in Comodo. Some of my clients like it though, as they either can't run the others or simply don't like them.You cannot remove viruses with it though(Prevx), even though they say you can with the paid version. I found that it was better to let CCleaner or another AV remove the virus. I was glad to know I had the infection, or potential infection, though.(edited) for clarity. Also - one must turn off the real time virus protection in the AdWatch part of the AdAware console. This is true even on the free one now. It is a paid in the pat-toot, but still worth it to me. I now understand Spybot Search and Destroy has finally come out with a new and improved version. One could switch to it and probably get almost as much real time protection as AdAware - perhaps even more - I need to re-evaluate it.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[JCitizen]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 11:53:32 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[neon samarai]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[did you try running your machine in safe mode and then running your anti-virus and anti-malware software. Don't mean to make you sound silly, but LOTS of people would not think of this.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Harry Reinbot]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 18:30:26 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[jcitizen, need three anti- virus and anti-spyware to run IIE?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I run AVG and MWB and never have a problem with IE. I run both freeware products and AVG runs constantly and I run MWB once a week with no problem.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Harry Reinbot]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 18:22:00 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I did a test once...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[to muck up the registry, on purpose to see if the CCleaner registry backup worked. I did a repair, that I knew wouldn't work, but it was a junker and I didn't care. It put everything back in its place and never a problem since. In the hundreds of machines I've done registry cleans on, I've never hosed a system.I only run it if I have just had a bad malware attack or if I've uninstalled some pesky software.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[JCitizen]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 14:18:48 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Yes...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[PSI starts the UAC when it updates, and I simply logon to give it administrative permission to do its work. I feel this is way easier than constantly logging off and on to the admin account to check if PSI has anything new. This really helps close that vulnerability time gap. I know what you mean about CSI. I would be onto the boss of any organization to adopt it pronto.I hope you find a solution to that problem next time, if it happens again, which I'm sure it will, to all of us. I'll let you know if it does, and I am lucky enough to discover the problem. I guess I need to at least try putting my browsers in the sandbox and see if they work on the restricted side. I'll have to read the help file, I don't want to mess up Avast or my honey pot. Have a good one there Neon!! =D]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[JCitizen]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 14:10:18 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[That would be cool!...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Thanks for the rep! ]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[JCitizen]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 13:57:31 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[files vs reg]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I don't add too much to the default checkboxes for file cleaning. The worst I've done is blow away browser cached passwords getting a little too zelous about clearing out browser cruft. I've not seen it lead to a reinstall yet.Registry cleaning is another story; I've seen it lead to reinstalls depending on frequency of cleaning and tool used. CCleaner is probably the only reg cleaner I trust but even then I don't use that function unless there is clear reason to run a vaccum through the hive. Unless malicious, orphan entries don't slow the system down since the reg is a lookup database; random access versus tape storage.. so to say.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Neon Samurai]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 06:10:04 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[yup]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[If I had a spare hard drive and a volume license I'd have that sucker in carbonite in my throne room.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Neon Samurai]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 06:00:21 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[absolutely]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[That was part of my reason for mentioning it. Figured someone may have an idea I didn't try.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Neon Samurai]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 05:59:26 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[PDF reader too]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I was happy to see that update along with Flash]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Neon Samurai]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 05:57:55 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[IE an Firefox affected, IE patched]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I actually tried FF4 hoping it was something in FF3 being exploited after the first time but the malware came right back. If it was TDSS it's known to hijack bot IE and FF.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Neon Samurai]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 05:56:39 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[yeah hitman had a nice interface]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It was the first of the &quot;send out to multi-engine&quot; one I tried. I like that it scans locally and if it's suspicious but can't identify why, the file goes out for analysis.CCleaner runs at startup but it'd be nice if it had a &quot;on shutdown&quot; checkbox too. Maybe I'll do a .cmd to run it. Comodo I'll have to look into further.Secunia is awesome. I skip the auto-update as I do with the Windows patches but v2 is a very nice update to the first. PSI goes on any home user machine I look at now. I've CSI on my wishlist for work. What I've noticed is that it runs as admin in the background. I always get prompted to become admin when opening it as a regular user. That's probably how manages the install while your regular user.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Neon Samurai]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 05:52:49 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Nearly baught a fresh hard drive to mirror it]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Sadly, it did come down to the deadline. I got to play for a few days while the user was out of the office but eventually had to go for effectiveness over science and nuke/pave. I did consider buying a fresh hard drive and cloning the system before reinstall. If I knew my AV provider that closely and could confirm no sensitive information on the drive, I'd even have considered just sending it on to them; maybe get new signatures more promptly or such to detect it.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Neon Samurai]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 05:40:00 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Wow...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[almost a shame to let it get away, huh?Would have been awesome to have that critter encapsulated in amber, up on the shelf ... so to speak.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[AnsuGisalas]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2011 22:36:44 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I answered this...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[on another of you posts here on this discussion. But as you are so thorough, I doubt you overlooked the possibilities I mentioned. I figure it can't hurt to suggest anything I can think about, as these can be very vexing problems. Anyone's perspective could be helpful - one hopes!?  ]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[JCitizen]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2011 12:31:07 -0800</pubDate>
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