preferred secondary scanner?

[eyeb]

Which scanners do people prefer as a secondary anti-virus?
Lately I've been testing hitmanpro and I can't decide if I like it. the only things it's been finding are false positives.

I'm not sure how hitman compares with panda cloud antivirus though but I'm thinking a cloud scanner as a backup would be good because it will be updated faster than traditional ones.

[bo.elam]

Originally Posted by -.-

Which scanners do people prefer as a secondary anti-virus?
Lately I've been testing hitmanpro and I can't decide if I like it. the only things it's been finding are false positives.

I'm not sure how hitman compares with panda cloud antivirus though but I'm thinking a cloud scanner as a backup would be good because it will be updated faster than traditional ones.

The only scanner that I have presently installed is MBAM, my favorite
because its fast, reliable and its designed to find things that regular
anti virus miss, rogues are an example of what all AV do bad against
but MBAM does great against them.


Bo

[maplichen]

I'd like to second the vote for MBAM for exactly the reasons mentioned by Bo. Alternatively, I personally found SAS useful before I started auto managing my LSO storage (tracking cookies really being the only things it ever found for me). While I am a current user of Panda Cloud, I would say that many people have reported high rates of false positives using Panda's definitions, a problem that is most likely exacerbated by untested, automatic cloud updates. So if you are using much software that is off the beaten track it may be more of a headache than it's worth.

If Hitman pro is turning up nothing for you over an extended period, your computer habits would seem to be doing most of the job of a secondary scanner and you probably would be fine with either MBAM or even just using a web based on demand file scanner like virus total (http://www.virustotal.com/).

[garth]

I find Mbam and SAS both work well. SAS found stuff that Mbam missed when i ran them back to back on a friends machine.

[reneeautumn]

[QUOTE=garth;36466]I find Mbam and SAS both work well. SAS found stuff that Mbam missed when i ran them back to back on a friends machine.[/QUOT
Malwarebytes,Hitmanpro,Emisoft

[tushR]

I vote for MBAM..

[bo.elam]

Originally Posted by garth

I find Mbam and SAS both work well. SAS found stuff that Mbam missed when i ran them back to back on a friends machine.

To me they are like a team, should not be compared and work great together.

Bo

[eyeb]

SAS?

also another question, I've noticed a few times when I ran things like clamwin av/hitman with avira still protecting me I get some alerts from avira on what the other scanner is doing. Should I turn off avira while running the other scan? I know I shouldnt have 2 av guarding system but what about when 1 is just scanning?

[bo.elam]

Originally Posted by -.-

SAS?

also another question, I've noticed a few times when I ran things like clamwin av/hitman with avira still protecting me I get some alerts from avira on what the other scanner is doing. Should I turn off avira while running the other scan? I know I shouldnt have 2 av guarding system but what about when 1 is just scanning?

If Avira gives you an alert when scanning with HP or Clam, absolutely you
ought to disable Avira real time while scanning with them. The scan with
the scanner will also take less time to finish and your machines workload
will be less if you disable Avira. With SAS, specially, the time for the scan
to finish and the workload is a lot less with the real time AV disabled when
doing scans. Thats my experience. I rarely do scans and only do MBAM
often and have not found the need to disable my real time AV, but if I was
a user that gets infected often, then even when scanning with MBAM it
would be recommendable to disable the real time AV. That is because
both apps might detect and fight for the same detected file.

Bo

[eyeb]

I don't really get infected... not for a few years really.

I just do manual scans about once a week when I'm making a backup since I want to make sure it's clean before backing up data.

I've managed to make SAS portable with jaunte I know there is a portable SAS already but I looked at it and it doesn't keep the updates. With my jaunte SAS I can update, carry to computer with no internet and have newer databases

you know what happened with ad-aware/spybot? I used to use them but stopped when I didn't like them. Are they still any good?

edit: Hm looking at SAS... isnt this superantispyware that windows defender is based on? windows defender didn't have such a good rep... but SAS does?
edit: finished running SAS... it found 2 things, both false positive 1 being a file and other is a registry that makes process hacker replace taskmanager. I'm not sure if I trust SAS as much as MBAM so I'll try it later a few times and get rid of it if it isnt better