detecting a virus

[Guest tmm5899]

a friend has a computer and he thinks he may have a virus how can he scan the

computer to see if he has one and where can he download a free virus

protector from or is there one on the windows cd and what would i look for it

the windows cd has a virus protector the operating system is windows xp

professional

[Guest David H. Lipman]

From: "tmm5899" <tmm5899@discussions.microsoft.com>

 

| a friend has a computer and he thinks he may have a virus how can he scan the

| computer to see if he has one and where can he download a free virus

| protector from or is there one on the windows cd and what would i look for it

| the windows cd has a virus protector the operating system is windows xp

| professional

 

The is NO built-in anti virus capability in Windows XP.

 

When you use the term "protector" you infer that you want to prevent viruses (and other

forms of malware). There are free anti virus packages that can help prevent and remove

malware. The one I suggest is the free personal Avira AntiVir -- http://www.freeav.com/

 

The following can be used to find and remove viruses (and other types of malware) but will

not be a "protector". It is an "On Demand" anti virus scanner and does not perform "On

Access" scanning which is the capability to help protect against getting infected in the

first place.

 

 

Download MULTI_AV.EXE from the URL --

http://www.pctipp.ch/ds/28400/28470/Multi_AV.exe

 

http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp

 

English:

http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/2008/0...virus-for-free/

 

To use this utility, perform the following...

Execute; Multi_AV.exe { Note: You must use the default folder C:\AV-CLS }

Choose; Unzip

Choose; Close

 

Execute; C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT

{ or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS }

 

NOTE: You may have to disable your software FireWall or allow WGET.EXE to go through your

FireWall to allow it to download the needed AV vendor related files.

 

C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT -- { or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS}

This will bring up the initial menu of choices and should be executed in Normal Mode.

This way all the components can be downloaded from each AV vendor's web site.

The choices are; Sophos, Trend, McAfee, Kaspersky, Exit this menu and Reboot the PC.

 

You can choose to go to each menu item and just download the needed files or you can

download the files and perform a scan in Normal Mode. Once you have downloaded the files

needed for each scanner you want to use, you should reboot the PC into Safe Mode [F8 key

during boot] and re-run the menu again and choose which scanner you want to run in Safe

Mode. It is suggested to run the scanners in both Safe Mode and Normal Mode.

 

When the menu is displayed hitting 'H' or 'h' will bring up a more comprehensive PDF help

file.

 

Additional Instructions:

http://pcdid.com/Multi_AV.htm

 

 

Please report back your results

 

 

 

--

Dave

http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html

Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp

[Guest Lon]

tmm5899 wrote:<span style="color:blue">

> a friend has a computer and he thinks he may have a virus how can he scan the

> computer to see if he has one and where can he download a free virus

> protector from or is there one on the windows cd and what would i look for it

> the windows cd has a virus protector the operating system is windows xp

> professional </span>

 

What leads your friend to think they have a virus?

 

Wireshark show any unusual network connections that cannot be explained?

 

Crashing behavior could just be a new app annoying a downlevel video

driver.