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Do you useMalwarebytesas much as I do?
I use it 4 or 5 times a day on average.
I use it to clean machines that have become infected.
The antivirus software on the machines in question have either been compromised or they are not up to date.
The only disadvantage of Malwarebytes is that it takes a long time to run a full scan.
I have started using NoVirusThanks before running Malwarebytes and it is pretty quick and catches a lot of infections.
Let’s take a look at it.
You start by downloading the free malware remover fromhere.
It is 1.2MB and downloads pretty quickly.
It requires Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5. kindly install it before the installation if you do not already have it.
you’re able to grab the .Net Framework from here if you need it.
After the quick installation you will need to launch the system from your start menu.
It includes also the ability to remove rogue software, spyware and adware.
Next you will see this screen:
We see a standard antivirus-like scanning interface.
Before we start the scan we will take a look at how to configure and update the utility.
press thesettingstab near the top left of the window.
This is a no-brainer.
The next tab is the scan tab which contains options about your scan.
The full scan takes much longer to run but is much more intensive.
At the bottom of the prefs we have four options.
The only one that is not selected by default is to use their Paranoid scan.
This will scan EVERYTHING and takes a very long time.
If you want a quick scan then do not check this option.
The backup tab allows for two options.
They are to backup files before deleting them and to alert the user if a backup fails.
These options are checked by default and should be left alone.
Under the last configs tab entitleddeletethere are two options that are disabled by default.
This will kill files even if they are in use or somehow protected.
The second option is to create a system restore point before deleting files.
This option I check before running the tool.
Now we are ready to run our scan.
My scan on a 200GB SATA drive took about 27 minutes.
I have tested it on some heavily infected machines and it really did its job.
