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Furnus

Fledgling Freddie
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Atm im scanning with ad-aware and ewido, but I have a question, I normaly just delete what it finds, but most of it just comes back, my question is, the quarentine function, what exactly does that do? Does it keep it on the comp so it just doesn't work so it cant be replaced or reput into my comp or what does it do? Any other help on getting this stuff outta my comp is also more than welcome!

-Furnus
 

Boni

Fledgling Freddie
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Quarantine just puts the file in a nice safe place where it wont ever get touched again, its a kinda backup in case the program removes something thats important. Just delete everything as you are ;)

Ad-Aware is great, but get Spybot s&d as well, it picks up a lot of stuff that ad-aware doesnt and can imunize your system against various bad sights by blocking them.

I would strong recommend pheonix labs peer guardian 2 as well, that blocks something silly like 700million IPs that are associated with dodgy sights.

ad-aware + spybot + peer guardian 2 and spyware will really have todo something special to get on your machine :D
 

Ingafgrinn Macabre

Can't get enough of FH
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Hitman Pro
just click the orange "download" to... well, don't have to explain that I guess, but that program runs several other programs to clean your PC, including Ad-Aware, ewido and Spybot S&D.
 

Furnus

Fledgling Freddie
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This was extreamly helpfull, espcially the Peerguardian, that thing is like sent from god, the hitman2 thing is nice aswell, except it takes so damn long to scan, it has like a million programs. One I noticed was on a trail for 14days, what happens when that runs out? does it just stop using that program? The thing takes like two hours to fully scan, is that right or is my comp just packed?
 

Ingafgrinn Macabre

Can't get enough of FH
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Furnus said:
This was extreamly helpfull, espcially the Peerguardian, that thing is like sent from god, the hitman2 thing is nice aswell, except it takes so damn long to scan, it has like a million programs. One I noticed was on a trail for 14days, what happens when that runs out? does it just stop using that program? The thing takes like two hours to fully scan, is that right or is my comp just packed?

Yeah, hitman2 does take a damn long time, but it does a very thorough job though :p
and yeah, after the trial has expired, it just stops using that program. no biggy. The rest of hitman pro will just continue to run.
The 2 hours, can be right. Mostly depends on the speed of your CPU, amount of RAM, the number of files you got on your PC, and how many room they take up.
 

Furnus

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ah ok :) nice to get that cleared up. Thanks again for the help, my comp like actually works now, and PeerGuardian is stoppin those ip's like... people who like fries.. puts fries in their mouths... and like stuff, anyway! thanks!
 

Mojo

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Stop going to dodgy porn and warez sites. ;)
 

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