Re: Opinions on malwarebytes virus cleanup software?

[Kevin Wilcox <wilcoxkm () APPSTATE EDU>]

On 22 February 2010 15:39, McCrary, Barbara <bmccrary () ogslp org> wrote:

> I don't know what has changed at Malwarebytes, but it has been less effective as of late, last 3 or 4 months,  in 
> catching and cleaning some of the latest malware.  I am talking about the free version.

I'm not convinced that it's something going on at Malwarebytes so much
as it's an increase in the sophistication of current nasties.

As a general rule, I assume that a scan that returns <n> pieces of
malware/virus/trojan/worm is probably missing <n/2> other pieces that
it just doesn't know how to find. It could just be paranoia or a
blatantly bad assumption on my part but once the integrity of the
machine is *known* to be compromised, you can't convince me that it's
clean short of a full-disk format and re-install.

kmw

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