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A Squared Anti-Malware Review
Posted on09 July 2010.
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Yes You CAN but i don’t recommend it as your computer will go slow as a slug system crashes ect… Stuff like that either you have to get one of each but its your choice if you want to put them both. I’ve heard some anti virus can go together
a squared is my 6th lol
when i suspect i have trojan or somthing i just run em all! lol
guys!!! Can you instal Squared Anti-Malware and Nod32 in the same time??? I heard somewhere it is not good to have 2 antivirus softwares!!!!!
A-Squared just caught ALL but ONE infection. The registry key was meaningless. That’s about a 99% detection rate. Awesome! I have been debating as to whether I should use A-Squared as a second opinion. I am no longer debating.
They have solved their false positive issue.
Great software. A2 being this good means no longer even THINKING about Spybot S&D or the smelly AdAware. Spyware Terminator is a weak JOKE! I’m happy for A2.
@GWmackan : Koobface is that Facebook Worm thats been in the news. Google it.
it looks like vista
what is the “koobface”?
This is the best antivirus ive ever tested!
When i was testing other AV’s it was not that many AV’s that cought my links,a-squared cought them all!
I have: Avira Antivir Free, IObit Security 360 PRO, Malwarebytes’ paid version, A-squared FREE and superantispyware
@languy99
Thanks but now im just using threatfire,spyware blaster and malwarebytes but thanks for the advice ill subb but subb back
I like to pair malwarebytes, superantispyware and spybot together.
Hey man whats the best free antispyware that i should use so far im using malwarebytes and spyware blaster
nope they cant, thats why they dont use hips. thus prooving no one would use A Squared.
Why not just use Windows 7 instead of going back to XP never quite got why these reviews have only just moved to vista
Ah, so your point is: If the user encounters a malicious application that he wants to run (hey, the email promised celebrity nude picz!), but can’t since his Malware protection is issuing a warning, he actually cares if it was a warning issued from a heuristic, behavior or signature based detection? You really overestimate the average user … . Most of them can’t even tell the difference between those 3.
uhm, its not really a users fault
its heruestics, thus not an actual database.
it can be legit or fake, thus your point is rather dumb.
Sorry, you can always play that “the user is an idiot” card. The user may think in Malwarebytes’ case: “Oh, but that is just a file name detection. That should be fine.” or “Oh, my fancy spyware application doesn’t work anymore. But I want it to work! I will ignore that.”
No security software can protect a computer from an idiot user.
and yet, what if a user really wanted to run that .exe’, they would disable A-squad, run the .exe and see random stuff on thier facebook woot., i’d say its all up to the database, or else the user will just say, thats just Behavior blocker
You are right. If there is an EXECUTABLE file left behind there is a risk of a reinfection. But this isn’t the case here. The sample fb.72.exe (the sample in question) is blocked by a-squared’s behavior blocker since it tried to install invisibly (it created that freddy72.exe file which was detected). What is left over is the empty file. It has a size of 0 bytes and no additional streams attached. It’s NOT executable. Therefore Malwarebytes’ detection of that file has to be considered a FP.
0xf30fc7, its a trace, its a file
i would love it off my computer, and do you know how many false positives that malwarebytes gets?, almost none, supported it from the begining. also you have to remember lets say just a little piece of an zlob is left over, they are STILL .exe’s and can be launched, (including .dll files),
thanks for the review languy99.
There are 2 ways to look at that. The first way would be”Well, the file has no malicious content. It just exists. Therefore it’s a false positive of Malwarebytes.” The second way would be “The file was created by malware therefore it is by definition malicious and should be removed.”
I personally would say that while it may be nice to actually rollback all changes malware did to the system it is ok if only the actual malware was removed. Without the actual malware other traces are harmless.
Is there any other “free” ones with good time step restoration ability because when i use Vbox with xp it didnt allow me return to a previous vmachine time period.
in my opinion it should not let anything through, trace or no trace. If it leaves things behind maybe they should fix that, right?
Free? VirtualBox … hands down. Languy99 is using VMware. You can recognize it by the little VMware icon in the system tray.
What virtual software are your using Lan ?
can you recommend some good free software for virtualizing any os ?