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    Stand-alone AV Cleaning Tools Comparative

    Discussion in 'Security and Anti-Virus Software' started by Spartan@HIDevolution, Feb 22, 2017.

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    Spartan@HIDevolution Company Representative

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    Put to the test for 12 months: This is how well security packages and special tools help after an attack

    https://www.av-test.org/en/news/new...-packages-and-special-tools-help-after-an-at/

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    Spartan@HIDevolution, Feb 22, 2017
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    @Mr. Fox @downloads

    Look at how bad the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal tool (or shall I say, ignore tool) does in the above image....

    That's why I disabled it from ever being installed.......to do this.....save this as a TXT file and rename the extension to.reg then merge it with your registry:

    Disable Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool

    Code: 
    Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\MRT]
"DontOfferThroughWUAU"=dword:00000001
     
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    downloads No, Dee Dee, no! Super Moderator

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    That is a terrible score and even worse if you consider how the final % was calculated. They were very gracious to calculate the final % by considering both full-clean and only-harmless-files-left-behind as success.

    Nothing short of full removal should be considered success, if you ask me.
     
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    Avira's PC Cleaner also sucks. Only Kaspersky's tool seems like a good option for cleaning infected systems along with MBAM
     
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    This is very useful and interesting results. Thank you!
     
    Support.2@XOTIC PC, Mar 8, 2017
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