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    Offline virus scanner - what do you use?

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    • DashrenderD
      Dashrender @dafyre
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      @dafyre said:

      @Dashrender Never heard of it.... runs off to read

      I've been using it for at least 2 years, if not more like 4.

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      • dafyreD
        dafyre @Dashrender
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        @Dashrender said:

        @dafyre said:

        @Dashrender Never heard of it.... runs off to read

        I've been using it for at least 2 years, if not more like 4.

        Does it work well?

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        • DashrenderD
          Dashrender @dafyre
          last edited by

          @dafyre said:

          @Dashrender said:

          @dafyre said:

          @Dashrender Never heard of it.... runs off to read

          I've been using it for at least 2 years, if not more like 4.

          Does it work well?

          It does find things from time to time. I will have to do double scans for the next few times, once with Clam and again with Defender Offline and see if they show different things - though now that i think about that.. that won't work.. as the first AV should get rid of any badies on there.

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          • travisdh1T
            travisdh1 @Dashrender
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            @Dashrender said:

            @dafyre said:

            @Dashrender said:

            @dafyre said:

            @Dashrender Never heard of it.... runs off to read

            I've been using it for at least 2 years, if not more like 4.

            Does it work well?

            It does find things from time to time. I will have to do double scans for the next few times, once with Clam and again with Defender Offline and see if they show different things - though now that i think about that.. that won't work.. as the first AV should get rid of any badies on there.

            If you do it a number of times, reversing which one you use first, it would be an indication if one is missing things.

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            • AmbarishrhA
              Ambarishrh
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              I've used http://www.sarducd.it/rescue-cd-antivirus.html once and used kaspersky from there to remove. Not sure if its still as effective as it used to be!

              Basically this gives you an option to boot and use most of the free AV rescue disk and if your machine is connected to internet, it will download the latest signature updates to the temp storage and use it for scanning

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              • dafyreD
                dafyre @Ambarishrh
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                @Ambarishrh I forgot about that one. I haven't had to use it in ages.

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                • DashrenderD
                  Dashrender @Ambarishrh
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                  @Ambarishrh said:

                  Basically this gives you an option to boot and use most of the free AV rescue disk and if your machine is connected to internet, it will download the latest signature updates to the temp storage and use it for scanning

                  I would assume ClamAV would have to do the same thing.

                  Defender online can often get online as well, but I generally just make a new disk with the latest definition files on it.

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                    Alex Sage
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                    Tron

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                    • DashrenderD
                      Dashrender @Alex Sage
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                      @anonymous said:

                      Tron

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