Hitman Pro 3.5 | Build 85 Released !

[Dinesh]

Hi All

A few points of clarification... not aimed at anyone:

RKill's purpose is not to find and shut down rootkits. It is tool designed to do a specific job that helps those who have been trained to use malware removal tools to run those tools. Until now, you would not 'see' anything after running RKill.

ComboFix should not be compared to a commercial product. ComboFix is a powerful tool that, if used without expert knowledge and training, will result in your computer becoming an expensive paperweight.

While Hitman Pro *may* remove rootkits such as TDL3, it cannot guarantee your system is clean. It can only guarantee that it has found everything it's designed to find. Think about it... a few weeks ago no-one was aware of TDL3 but it was out there. How do you know whether the TDL3 rootkit has been used to download a yet-unknown sister rootkit? The safest way forward after the discovery of a rootkit is to reformat and re-install.

Hitman Pro contains definitions of 5 different Anti Virus. Now 5 AV cannot be wrong.
Also, format and reinstall? It means you quit and the malware won.

 

[jonk1969]

Can anyone tell me if I need to have both Malwarebytes *and* Hitman pro? I have a computer that was infected with TDL3, and Malwarebytes didn't detect it, but Hitman did. should i run both just in case a virus comes up that Hitman doesn't detect but Malwarebytes does and vice versa?

Thank you.

 

[WindowsStar]

Yes you can run HitMan and then Malwarebytes. It is good to do both.

 

[jonk1969]

blah blah

thank you for your response!

 

[zay]

I have used Combofix. malwarbyte, hitman pro, prevx, avira, avg, and they are all good products. For me, I use Avast 5 for my real time protection, but I use hitman pro as a backup. I tried using microsoft security essentials, but lost faith in it. Don't get me wrong, mse had its moments, but it failures outweighed its successes. Just last night I had a client with a badly infected computer, she took it to geek squad, they told her the virus was too new, and it would take them a week to get it fixed. I ran combofix, and then Avast (boot scan), and cleaned it right on up. What I would love to find is a good browser protection app, to kill popups and ads, and some of those sites that make my IE stop responding and have to recover from time to time.

 

[Dinesh]

I have used Combofix. malwarbyte, hitman pro, prevx, avira, avg, and they are all good products. For me, I use Avast 5 for my real time protection, but I use hitman pro as a backup. I tried using microsoft security essentials, but lost faith in it. Don't get me wrong, mse had its moments, but it failures outweighed its successes. Just last night I had a client with a badly infected computer, she took it to geek squad, they told her the virus was too new, and it would take them a week to get it fixed. I ran combofix, and then Avast (boot scan), and cleaned it right on up. What I would love to find is a good browser protection app, to kill popups and ads, and some of those sites that make my IE stop responding and have to recover from time to time.

Hi, spyware blaster is a good browser protection software. If you use firefox, you might also use noscript n adblock plus addons..

 

[tw33k]

Hi, spyware blaster is a good browser protection software. If you use firefox, you might also use noscript n adblock plus addons..

+1

 

[thathagat]

well for those interested there is Hitman Pro 3.5.5 build 93 BETA

changelog here...

 

[Dinesh]

well for those interested there is Hitman Pro 3.5.5 build 93 BETA

changelog here...

Thanks for the update.

 

[Dinesh]

Looks like they have removed Avira from the list. Now it shows only NOD32, G data, Prevx and A squared.

 

[thathagat]

Looks like they have removed Avira from the list. Now it shows only NOD32, G data, Prevx and A squared.

hi.........
avira no longer in hitman

Mark and Erik loman are the developers of hitman..this thread serves as an unoffical hitman query thread

 

[alwinwinjoe]

Looks like they have removed Avira from the list. Now it shows only NOD32, G data, Prevx and A squared.

hi.........
avira no longer in hitman

Mark and Erik loman are the developers of hitman..this thread serves as an unoffical hitman query thread

So there's going to be another AV vendor to join their scan cloud?

 

[Dinesh]

Looks like they have removed Avira from the list. Now it shows only NOD32, G data, Prevx and A squared.

hi.........
avira no longer in hitman

Mark and Erik loman are the developers of hitman..this thread serves as an unoffical hitman query thread

Hi, thanks for the info.

 

[malexous]

Looks like they have removed Avira from the list. Now it shows only NOD32, G data, Prevx and A squared.

Huh? Avira has been gone for months. Do you use the 64 bit? I think it was still listed in it even though it wasn't being used.

 

[malexous]

Hitman Pro 3.5.5 Build 98 released.

No release notes yet.

 

[Bobby72]

I agree that the only the sure-fire method of making sure that no rootkits are present is by formatting and clean installing. If I find that I have a rootkit, I wouldn't waste time trying to clean it out. Even if I did remove whatever out, there is no way of knowing that the computer is clean again and it would be dangerous to assume so too.

I have to say that Hitman Pro is very poor for detecting and removing rogues. I tested it out on this rogue 'My Security Engine' the other day and it found nada, not a thing whereas MBAM found 782 infections and a2 found 726 infections of the rogue. I would not recommend using that for rogues.

I totally agree with Vino about using ComboFix. The author of ComboFix specifically said in the disclaimer that only people are trained can advise and use them and it's not for private use.

 

[Bobby72]

Ooooops another thing - rkill is not for sniffing out and removing rootkits. It searches for malicious processes and terminate them so that it can allow you to use other removal tools like MBAM. I also tested rkill out on my test computer with the rogue infection 'My Security Engine' and it found and removed 3 dllhost.exes and after that I can open task manager up again and to run MBAM again.

 

[malexous]

It found the two rogues I had purposefully infected myself with.

 

[Dinesh]

It found the two rogues I had purposefully infected myself with.

 

[malexous]

During that test I had tried a few others but SONAR 3 took care of them. Today, Hitman Pro detected one that Avast! 5 Free let in and do all kinds of nasties (SONAR 3 stops it). Only downloaded two other files today, one a rogue and Hitman Pro detected them.

I didn't let Hitman Pro remove anything.