What's the Best Anti-virus?

ThrashZone said:

Hi,
If you found a good combination stick with it,
The only issue I see is getting rid of Mcafee completely,
AV Uninstallers
Cheers.

Yep agree with you there TZ and yet I still find McAfee popping up from time to time in my reg entries - I don't know how as I am usually pretty careful with any downloads.

As matter of general habit I always check the reg for remnants with any of them when testing:).

Seffrid said:

ICit2lol said:

ThrashZone said:

Hi,
If you found a good combination stick with it,
The only issue I see is getting rid of Mcafee completely,
AV Uninstallers
Cheers.

Yep agree with you there TZ and yet I still find McAfee popping up from time to time in my reg entries - I don't know how as I am usually pretty careful with any downloads.

As matter of general habit I always check the reg for remnants with any of them when testing:).

Isn't it McAfee that is installed by default with every Flash update? We need to make sure we don't auto-install those or any other updates (or new applications), so we can check exactly what is being installed and uncheck the crap we don't want! Yes Bing, I'm looking at you!

Hmm you have a point Seffrid but generally I am very careful with those irritating add ons although I don't remember any with Flash updates especially for McAfee.
I would add that I found just recently the ADWCleaner from bleepingcomputer is getting a tad convoluted in how and with what it is downloaded, as in it requires all of the attention when downloading from that site.

Seffrid said:

You might want to check here:-

Adobe Community: How can I install a Flash update without installing McAfee?

Ok will keep my eyes peeled for this one as I really haven't noticed it before:)

Hi,

I've just reinstalled flash player leaving the MacAfee Security Scan checkbox ticked just for the hell of it!

Also monitored processes that ran when the installer launched.



Above is the list. The process that installs MacAfee when the flash player installer is run is SecurityScan_Release.exe and as you can see it's run under conhost.exe so doesn't appear in the log.

If you look at the log you'll see FM.exe is the next process to launch. This is the process that has been launched in place of SecurityScan_Release.exe and displays the following:



That's down to the registry entry here:



When SecurityScan_Release.exe is launched by ANY method even from an elevated command prompt or any other way the debugger launches FM.exe in it's place.

There is no way that MacAfee Security Scan can be installed on my machine - even if i forgot to uncheck that annoying checkbox or installed software that bundles it with the installer.

Well, I'm just saying that there's an answer to this type of problem!

Obsolete because? They can't possibly catch everything new. The malware writers are very good at what they do. Beyond behavior analysis, there is no way any AV can have foreknowledge of what comes next. All they can do is react as quickly as possible, and make their programs detect any new methods used. Along with behavior analysis comes false positives. It's a constant battle. But they are not obsolete unless they stop adapting. A Guy