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Looks like a good product other than a higher expertise being necessary.
Some of us don't have flash drives.
Can it run from the hard drive, a CD, or a memory stick instead ?
Can it run from the hard drive, a CD, or a memory stick instead ?
This tool can run from a hard drive (just copy the .exe to the drive) or from a memory stick. As for the CD -- it should.
This is a great little program. I have used it on a few machines and it does a wonderful job and is easy to use. My only complaint seems to be that if you turn off notifications for firewall, virus protection and automatic updates to stop the little pop-ups then these show up as rouge programs and the rogue killer turns them back on. Just a small pain in the butt.
dave
dave
Falsely stopped Tivo Desktop software processes and doesn't let you exclude false positives from being stopped in the future. The program needs this facility.
Do any Microsoft heavyweights recommend cleaning the registry at all? All my reading is that they do not, they say the registry does not need cleaning and you only stand to cripple the computer instead of accomplishing anything positive.
Since you recommend this prog to clean the registry, I assume you are aware of all this. Please provide links to MS sources that recommend cleaning the registry.
Since you recommend this prog to clean the registry, I assume you are aware of all this. Please provide links to MS sources that recommend cleaning the registry.
" I find RogueKiller is superior to CCleaner for getting rid of registry issues."
What 'registry issues' would those be? And the two programs have completely different aims AFAIK. Bizarre statement...
Yeah, hleveque, Mark Russinovich addressed that, he reckoned NOT necessary to run registry cleaners / optimisers. I think this Roguekiller is just looking at autorun locations and installed services etc, so not really a registry cleaner as such, more general anti-malware
What 'registry issues' would those be? And the two programs have completely different aims AFAIK. Bizarre statement...
Yeah, hleveque, Mark Russinovich addressed that, he reckoned NOT necessary to run registry cleaners / optimisers. I think this Roguekiller is just looking at autorun locations and installed services etc, so not really a registry cleaner as such, more general anti-malware
I wish the "experts" would quit ducking this basic question. Makes ya wonder...
How can you expect to trust an application site that is only in French? I have no intention of downloading software that I can't read about before I download and install.
I understand the skepticism, but just because it's not in your native language doesn't mean it isn't legit. Just use a web translation service; there are so many of them out there. Most search engines (Google and Bing, at least) have translation services which will translate full websites.
The RogueKiller redirection site come ups witha 100/100 as Malicious by zulu.zscaler.com
The French should be no problem at.
Just use Google translate to get a English
or almost any other language rendering of
website.
Just use Google translate to get a English
or almost any other language rendering of
website.
Once dl'd Norton detects an "issue" with this file using it's reputation based scan. I hope it is a false positive.
I've seen Norton's reputation scanner reccomend against Norton / Symantec signed files. It's a crock of baloney, like their 'Fake AV' scamming tactics. If you really want to scan it, upload it to virustotal or Jotti's malware scan.
"If you really want to scan it, upload it to virustotal or Jotti's malware scan." I'll Laugh when you system is infected because you already dl'd the file before doing a scan of any type. kinda like asking the bullitt to stop once the gun is fired!
Just downloading the file doesn't do anything. You need to execute it.
I suppose if you've got windows configured to autorun, you save it to a flash drive, remove the drive & reinsert it, then you could be automagically infected.
Then again, I've seen a user open an email "from themself", download an attachment they supposedly sent themself, unzip said attachment, which luckily they included the zip password in their email, and execute the file they had no recollection of.
Just downloading the file is more like loading a bullet into the gun. It has the potential to fire, but it doesn't fire itself, you need to pull the trigger.
I suppose if you've got windows configured to autorun, you save it to a flash drive, remove the drive & reinsert it, then you could be automagically infected.
Then again, I've seen a user open an email "from themself", download an attachment they supposedly sent themself, unzip said attachment, which luckily they included the zip password in their email, and execute the file they had no recollection of.
Just downloading the file is more like loading a bullet into the gun. It has the potential to fire, but it doesn't fire itself, you need to pull the trigger.
McAfee's Siteadvisor blocks access to this site as "Dangerous", and if you overrride the block, it claims that the download contains "spyware or malicious code". I think I'll pass.....
As McAfee protects you about as much as Norton, it's not a surprise. You can use VirusTotal to scan the URL, coming up completely clean. My Kaspersky doesn't make a peep when visiting the URL. I would also put money on you uninstalling McAfee, reinstalling a real virus/malware scanner and you will find at least one bug on your "protected with McAfee" machine. If you take a look at Jotti's malware scan you can see that McAfee, along with Websense in the post below you are not listed as they can't find squat.
but nobody should use". Norton and McAfee will tie for first place of overhyped uselessness.
I use Symantec and I regularly check my system with Malwarebytes Anti-Malware as well as Spybot. Both never found something that Symantec missed. You seem to be biased. On the other hand McAfee is a big piece of doo-doo.
It's normail
Lots of AV vendors don't like antimalware tools due to their powerful features
Lots of AV vendors don't like antimalware tools due to their powerful features
Websense has identified this as a malicious site and is blocking us from downloading it. I suspect the executable is fine and non-malicious, but I would not be surprised if the software's author attracted the attention of some malware write who decided to get even and trash his web site.
My reply to Datacommguy on his McAfee false positive that is. Just read where I put McAfee and replace with Websense.
I've had my share of problems with multiple commercial anti-malware programs which either detected false positives (McAfee's quarantine of XP's svchost.exe comes to mind) or claiming they found something but were unable to do anything about it. And Websense which blocked the local newpaper site for a while. For RogueKiller, WOT did not flag the site, and a scan of the downloaded program by MBAM and MSE and Norton found it clean. That said, I tend to err on the conservative side, and the BSOD report below is not comforting. I probably will, however, keep it around for worst case problems where nothing else has worked.
Hello
On which OS?
Why don't send a feedback report? I got a support email you know
On which OS?
Why don't send a feedback report? I got a support email you know
I should have mentioned that I did run a scan on the RogueKiller file with both SEP and Clamwin before I tested it myself. Neither product found an issue with the file (had they, I wouldn't have written about it ).
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This tool is a life saver when malware programs such as symantec continue to let you down and not only let malware through but can't remove them or fully identify the full breadth of infection. This tool has save me hours of time combatting malware/virus intrusions on PC's, is easy to use - and if you find this 'too hard' to use, maybe you should take the time to 'Learn' something that might actually do you some good and protect you and your data in the future.
The real answer across the board in almost every corporate office out there, is USER education - until that happens, carry a biiig band-aid.. Rogue-Killer works.
The real answer across the board in almost every corporate office out there, is USER education - until that happens, carry a biiig band-aid.. Rogue-Killer works.
Download is bad, 'RogueKiller.exe isn't a valid win32 executable file' on XP Pro, Windows 7 Professional 64 and 32 bit.
Right now Rogue Killer is our choice to fix malware issues. Is there a way to run this program in some type command-line/stealth mode so that we can scan a group of computers for potential unknown infections(malware, spyware, key-loggers...etc) All we would need is the Scan report. If detected then we can access the Windows desktop directly and repair as needed.
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