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Introduction
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Every living creature or plant on our planet has a risk of being infected by various diseases. As computer grow faster and become more autonomous they to are at risk of there own set of artificial diseases known as malware. Like humans computers can be immunized against these artificial diseases to prevent infections; however even these precautions are not perfect and infection can occur. Once a computer is infected the the infection should be removed right away to prevent serious complications such as data loss, privacy breaches and scamming. There are many different types of malware removal tools, some are for general use, others treat specific infections and others are fake removal tools that trick you to install more malware. The following general malware removal tools have been reviewed with more being added: Malwarebytes Antimalware SuperAntiSpyware Spybot Search and Destroy These programs have been evaluated for their detection rates, installation procedure, and usability. Each program is evaluated using a grading rubric out of 300 and a copy of an infected virtual machine to ensure there are the same number of malware samples. |
Discussion
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After updating I ran a quick scan which did not find my test file. The scan menu offers third party cookie blocking. The immunization feature interacts with the web browser to warn users of potentially harmful websites. I tried to install sweetpacks toolbar and spybot put up a warning. Spybot's full scan will also check for rootkit malware . Spybot detected the EICAR bogus website the first time, however it didn't detect the bogus malware/virus file downloads. Spybot also flagged a warning when I clicked on a 7-zip advertisement on C/NET. Spybot works very well to warn of potential problems with links or websites. |
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Honorable Mention: Spywareblaster is a prevention not a removal program but I felt worth mentioning here for it's unique features.
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2.0 Supports IE, Chrome, Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera. Languages: English, German, Italian, Russian. Spybot Search & Destroy 1.6.2 available for older PCs. v2.1.21 SR2 released 30 July, 2013 View the malware engine updates here

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