Anti-malware software for Windows 7

[Skuzzy]

Seems Webroot bricked (not able to boot,...I believe) a number (not all) of enterprise business computers with a recent update.

[AKIron]

Likely the wrlog.log file that grew to fill up the boot drive. Often a machine won't boot with zero free space on C. We worked around it on non-domain controllers by booting to a safe mode command prompt and deleting the file. Of course webroot starts all over on the next normal boot if you let it.

[AKIron]

For removing malware (not preventing), malwarebytes is the best imo.

[Vulcan]

Seems Webroot bricked (not able to boot,...I believe) a number (not all) of enterprise business computers with a recent update.

Every major AV vendor does that at least once every 5 years 

[100Coogn]

I don't trust any AV software that is harder to remove than a virus.   

Coogan

[Pudgie]

Update:

I went ahead & purchased a 1 yr subscription of Webroot Secure Anywhere Antivirus for PC Gamers to use it in place of the Kapersky Internet Security series AV software that I have been using for the last 8-9 yrs and have installed it and got all set up then deleted Kapersky and rebooted my box to bring all up as clean as I could get it all.

The very 1st thing that I noticed is the SPEED\SNAPPINESS improvement of Windows running on my box since this AV swap. I mean it was VERY noticeable. Every app that is running is running MUCH crisper and smoother under Webroot AV for PC Gamers than under Kapersky Internet Security. This AV client software is showing to not impede any computer performance at all when compared to what I've been used to when using Kapersky.......night & day difference.

AHIII runs beautifully under this AV software w\o any special exclusion settings to enable.....just as Webroot said in their advertisement. I've had this AV running for approx 20 mins & it has already made 3 scans of my box taking only 20 secs to complete each 1 and so far all are clean.

So far, so good.

This particular Webroot AV version looks like a winner at this time. Will monitor to see how it all holds up but right now it looks very good.

Now that I've experienced this I definately ain't going back to Kapersky.....................

 

 

PS--Here's the link: https://www.webroot.com/us/en/home/products/gamer-av#reviews_summary_consumer-reviews

[TDeacon]

I liked Malwarebytes a lot, too.

I had a problem, though, in that, when I used both an antivirus and Malwarebytes, a reboot of the computer took forever, with the disk thrashing for a long time at startup.  Uninstalling one or the other greatly reduced that (even though Windows does suck at startup).

Malwarebytes Premium claims to be an antivirus program.  So, I would expect some potential for interference if one runs 2 competing products simultaneously. 

MH

[Brooke]

Malwarebytes Premium claims to be an antivirus program.  So, I would expect some potential for interference if one runs 2 competing products simultaneously. 

MH

Back when i was uding it abou 1 year ago they said it wasnt antivirus but to be used along with antivirus.

Ill keep an eye on v3 and higher.  Thanks for the info.

[Pudgie]

Update:

I went ahead & purchased a 1 yr subscription of Webroot Secure Anywhere Antivirus for PC Gamers to use it in place of the Kapersky Internet Security series AV software that I have been using for the last 8-9 yrs and have installed it and got all set up then deleted Kapersky and rebooted my box to bring all up as clean as I could get it all.

The very 1st thing that I noticed is the SPEED\SNAPPINESS improvement of Windows running on my box since this AV swap. I mean it was VERY noticeable. Every app that is running is running MUCH crisper and smoother under Webroot AV for PC Gamers than under Kapersky Internet Security. This AV client software is showing to not impede any computer performance at all when compared to what I've been used to when using Kapersky.......night & day difference.

AHIII runs beautifully under this AV software w\o any special exclusion settings to enable.....just as Webroot said in their advertisement. I've had this AV running for approx 20 mins & it has already made 3 scans of my box taking only 20 secs to complete each 1 and so far all are clean.

So far, so good.

This particular Webroot AV version looks like a winner at this time. Will monitor to see how it all holds up but right now it looks very good.

Now that I've experienced this I definately ain't going back to Kapersky.....................

 

 

PS--Here's the link: https://www.webroot.com/us/en/home/products/gamer-av#reviews_summary_consumer-reviews

Update:

All still looking good here since the AV swap.

This version of Webroot shows to work very well in tandem w\ Windows Defender and is showing to be VERY resource-friendly.

Thanks Vulcan for the tip!

 

[Chalenge]

150,000 printers hacked. Hmmm, might want to tighten up, huh?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/leemathews/2017/02/06/hacker-forces-150000-printers-to-print-a-warning-to-their-owners/#7a140cf1b853

[TDeacon]

Well, I'm giving Webroot a try on my new Win7 install.  It seems to work (or at least it claims to be working).  Don't seem to be able to turn it on and off, though, which is bad.  Slow downloads, but that may be due to other factors.  I will be doing tests comparing downloads in Win7 with Webroot and downloads in Linux MInt. 

MH