Poll Secondary virus removal tool & anti malware scanner

[Sorrento]

I rarely if ever use one for myself but for others I usually use Malwarebytes - As for myself, I do find it not really necessary to keep scanning my own systems unless you often go into the valleys of deep shadows where dragons & ghouls live

 

[Parkinsond]

I rarely if ever use one for myself but for others I usually use Malwarebytes - As for myself, I do find it not really necessary to keep scanning my own systems unless you often go into the valleys of deep shadows where often dragons live

I use it as audit of MD.

 

[silversurfer]

If possible in settings of your favorite on-demand scanner(s), adding the following user folders:

C:\Users\.....\AppData\
C:\ProgramData\

After we added that manually (in the past for tests in the Malware Hub) to KVRT and NPE both found more malware traces...

 

[Parkinsond]

If possible in settings of your favorite on-demand scanner(s), adding the following user folders:

After we added that manually (in the past for tests in the Malware Hub) to KVRT and NPE both found more malware traces...

I scan the whole C drive, not just relying on default scan.

 

[Researchspace]

- Norton Power Erasert
- Sophos Scan & Clean

I usually use the above two while in the past I have used KVRT and Eset

 

[Digmor Crusher]

Norton, Kaspersky, Eset and Malwarebytes are what I occasionally use, I gave up on Emsisoft as it was taking way too long to update in my VM.

 

[Trident]

Norton Power Eraser and KVRT have very deep remediation that also deletes malicious registry entries, startup items, scheduled tasks and so on when malware is detected. This is similar to MalwareBytes (which also does that) but NPE is a portable tool that doesn't require installation.

Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool also includes memory scan (not sure if Trend Micro Housecall has been updated with the recent TM memory scanning). It can detect evasive fileless malware (though unless it handles the persistence as well, it may not be so useful).

In Essense, these 2 are the best.

BTW, there is this McAfee/ Trellix Stinger as well, the GTI sensitivity before a scan can be bumped up to max.

 

[Parkinsond]

In Essense, these 2 are the best

KVRT has the advantage of scan speed; NPE scanned C and D in 10 hours, compared to only 1 h 20 min for KVRT.

 

[stonjean633]

I mostly use Trend Housecall as it always update before the app starts.
Eset is another one that you can update.
KVRT is good too but needs to redownload the latest app version to have the latest signatures.
Those above feels like a full scan is really a full scan.

The rest got full scan too but I always feel it's really not full and it seems they are skipping some directories.

 

[Acadia]

Other: CyberLock (formerly VoodooShield)
Acadia

 

[Parkinsond]

I mostly use Trend Housecall as it always update before the app starts.
Eset is another one that you can update.
KVRT is good too but needs to redownload the latest app version to have the latest signatures.
Those above feels like a full scan is really a full scan.

The rest got full scan too but I always feel it's really not full and it seems they are skipping some directories.

In order to get a "real" full scan, you have to manually select drive C.

 

[brambedkar59]

Any one uses Dr.Web Cureit ? I remember ~15 years ago, when I was last infected, it was (along with ComboFix) recommended by the malware removal expert on Malwarebytes forum. Is it any good now?

 

[simmerskool]

KVRT has the advantage of scan speed; NPE scanned C and D in 10 hours, compared to only 1 h 20 min for KVRT.

NPE scans my c:\ in a minute or 2, it never gave me a reason to time its scan.

 

[stonjean633]

In order to get a "real" full scan, you have to manually select drive C.

Forgot to Add Emsisoft is also ok.

The scan which I feel are too fast is the Fsecure, Panda Cloud Cleaner and some others that I can't remember.

 

[Parkinsond]

Forgot to Add Emsisoft is also ok.

The scan which I feel are too fast is the Fsecure, Panda Cloud Cleaner and some others that I can't remember.

Never tried on-demand one by Fsecure or Panda; EEK is good, but utilizes the largest amount of RAM compared to NPE and KVRT.

 

[simmerskool]

Norton, Kaspersky, Eset and Malwarebytes are what I occasionally use, I gave up on Emsisoft as it was taking way too long to update in my VM.

I sometimes scan a win10_VM with EEK and scan was (seemed) pretty quick (fwiw)