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Microsoft Security Essentials verdict...
TOK:
--- Quote from: MonMotha on September 15, 2011, 04:14:43 pm ---Also, run Win 7 and don't disable UAC. It's not nearly as annoying as it was in Vista, and it will often catch programs trying to do things they shouldn't.
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This alerted me to a problem I had... Some random string of letters and numbers kept trying to run and UAC asked if I wanted to allow it. Each time I clicked NO, it would change and ask again.
This was some malware type thing that lived in the /Temp file of my user profile (C:/Users/*username*/AppData/Local/Temp). MSE didn't detect it and and couldn't be deleted from within Windows, but I was able to delete it from a command prompt and that eliminated it. Not sure how bad it would have been had I clicked YES when UAC asked.
I'm generally a pretty safe user, I don't really visit many sketchy sites and don't use bit torrent. I'm not really even sure where I picked this thing up from, but it is the first time Security Essentials totally goofed it in the year+ I've been using it.
saint:
--- Quote from: Gray_Area on September 16, 2011, 12:02:52 am ---I've been using MSE for at least a year, and only just a couple weeks ago got something REALLY scary. I wasn't even visiting a porn site. I was looking at a map, clicked a link, then a blank page with a 'click if the page hasn't loaded' link top-left, which I didn't even have time to click, and then....suddenly my task bar was set to default options....!.....and all my bookmarks disappeared. Turned out almost all my files were 'hidden'. I restarted, and I got a BSOD half-way through boot. I ended up having to re-install. After that, MSE found something called Orsam!rts . Nearly all instances were linked to Wolfmame.
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Forgot to mention, a ton of icons on my desktop were set to hidden also.
newmanfamilyvlogs:
--- Quote from: saint on September 16, 2011, 08:31:50 am ---
--- Quote from: Gray_Area on September 16, 2011, 12:02:52 am ---I've been using MSE for at least a year, and only just a couple weeks ago got something REALLY scary. I wasn't even visiting a porn site. I was looking at a map, clicked a link, then a blank page with a 'click if the page hasn't loaded' link top-left, which I didn't even have time to click, and then....suddenly my task bar was set to default options....!.....and all my bookmarks disappeared. Turned out almost all my files were 'hidden'. I restarted, and I got a BSOD half-way through boot. I ended up having to re-install. After that, MSE found something called Orsam!rts . Nearly all instances were linked to Wolfmame.
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Forgot to mention, a ton of icons on my desktop were set to hidden also.
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yeah I saw a similar one not too long ago on a co-worker's machine. Set EVERY SINGLE ---smurfing--- FILE on the harddrive to system+hidden.
leapinlew:
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on September 15, 2011, 06:28:48 pm ---AVG is still the best....
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I'm not a fan. I had to abandon AVG after it failed me several times across several systems. Avast seems to be doing a much better job for the particular issue I was having.
Louis Tully:
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