October 9th, 2008, 02:41 PM
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Originally Posted by sharder8  While I'm on the AV soapbox . . .
Can anyone tell me why all of you condemn Trend Micro . . . but when someone is infected, the first thing you recommend is HouseCall??? 
Harder | I've never condemned TM, in fact I'm a strong supporter of housecall. I've always taken then stance of why pay for something when you can get a pretty damn good alternative for free.
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Originally Posted by nrok i know that malwarebytes is great to take out the virus from an infected computer
but i'm trying to find an antivirus that wont let the virus come in and that's what we're
talking about !!
trend micro is a new name for me. i'll try it.
you see, i download the av2009 on pupose to test antiviruses if they stop it or not
and if they dont, i get rid of the virus, lately with malwarebytes.
i'll let you know how "trend micro" handled it.
trend micro internet security is not free!!! |
I don't think Malwarebytes anti-malware is what you need then. You are talking about anti-virus software that has active protection, scans downloads, emails, attachments ect. To block AV2009 it also needs to stop users from being idiots and allowing any and all active x downloads, or in some cases it hides as an upgrade to flash or some other add-on.
Ironically I was actually trying to find a site the other day that gave the AV2009 pop-up so I could do the same exact thing you are doing. I created a fresh install on a backup drive and initialized it on its own so there was no chance of issues with my reg install. I installed a few programs to try out and went hunting. But I couldn't find any sites that had it. So I got bored and gave up.
PS, no one ever said the trend micro security suite was free, just that there are alternatives (AVG, AVAST ect) that are.
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Last edited by RicheemxX : October 9th, 2008 at 02:55 PM.
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