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Why are we even messing with anything other than WD these days?
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<blockquote data-quote="danb" data-source="post: 888758" data-attributes="member: 62850"><p>Yeah, I was surprised it happened so quickly as well... otherwise I would have taken stronger precautions.</p><p></p><p>In all fairness, you are scanning with a blacklist scanner. and it is going to miss a lot more than WLC ever would (especially with a dwell time of 150-800 days). While reading your post, I just now realized that I did not start noticing this issue until several months ago when WLC was released. Remember, this all just came up recently and I am just now putting two and two together.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, you might try scanning your computer with WLC and see what it finds. If it detects any items as Not Safe, it would be wise to investigate. If all of the items are detected as Safe, there is a great chance your computer is perfectly clean.</p><p></p><p>If you are interested, here is a link... it uninstalls perfectly too.</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.whitelistcloud.com/Download/InstallWhitelistCloud.exe[/URL]</p><p></p><p>So instead of scanning your system for malicious files, WLC scans your system for safe files. The reason whitelist scanners are not used to scan the drive is because if you were to scan the entire drive with a whitelist scanner, there would be tons of false positives. But a year ago or so I realized, well, we can at least scan the running process with a whitelist scanner, and maybe even eventually a smart scan that scans the running processes and common malware locations.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, if you or anyone else scans their computer with WLC, please let us know! You might be surprised what it finds.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="danb, post: 888758, member: 62850"] Yeah, I was surprised it happened so quickly as well... otherwise I would have taken stronger precautions. In all fairness, you are scanning with a blacklist scanner. and it is going to miss a lot more than WLC ever would (especially with a dwell time of 150-800 days). While reading your post, I just now realized that I did not start noticing this issue until several months ago when WLC was released. Remember, this all just came up recently and I am just now putting two and two together. Anyway, you might try scanning your computer with WLC and see what it finds. If it detects any items as Not Safe, it would be wise to investigate. If all of the items are detected as Safe, there is a great chance your computer is perfectly clean. If you are interested, here is a link... it uninstalls perfectly too. [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.whitelistcloud.com/Download/InstallWhitelistCloud.exe[/URL] So instead of scanning your system for malicious files, WLC scans your system for safe files. The reason whitelist scanners are not used to scan the drive is because if you were to scan the entire drive with a whitelist scanner, there would be tons of false positives. But a year ago or so I realized, well, we can at least scan the running process with a whitelist scanner, and maybe even eventually a smart scan that scans the running processes and common malware locations. Anyway, if you or anyone else scans their computer with WLC, please let us know! You might be surprised what it finds. [/QUOTE]
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