[Flashorn]

Hey People! Here I thought I was protected,how disapointing. Asquared detected a worm on my PC.Got so excited I had the App delete the infection withought taking the name of the Worm. Now I ran all the scans that I have at my disposition,and nothing else came up. I was reading that WORMS write and multiply in your memory. My question is, is there a scanner specificaly for scanning memory?Any advise and help is always appreciated and welcomed.Thank You.

PS. The scans that I performed are with,

Asquared 3.0

SuperAntiSpyware

XoftSpy

AVG Virus Scanner

AVG AntiRootkit

F Secure-Blacklight

even MS KB890830

They all came up negative.


Flashorn.


Patience is life.

[rgreen4]

I am not familiar with Asquared. But it sounds as if you have covered most if not all the bases.

I will send a PM to SpiritWind about your posting.

SpiritWind is our resident expert in this area.

[Flashorn]

Hey RG! Thank You for your concern. Yes if you could contact Spirit for me that would be great. As for Asquared 3.0.check them out at www.emsisoft.com . Like I mentioned I also run XoftSpySE.Between these two apps. usually malware doesn't stand a chance.But in my case Asquared is the free version without shields,and XoftSpy is only a scanner.Again thank you for your interest.

Flashorn.

Patience is life.

[SpiritWind]

Hi :

A-Squared is developing a reputation of having quite a few false-positives, at times very serious . It has

gotten to the point that anything A-Squared "detects" should be "verified" by checking THEIR Forums

at forum.emsisoft.com/Default.aspx?g=forum&c=2 for Info as to the "truthfulness" of the

"Detection" . I do NOT recommend A-squared for those with Win XP or Vista . Also do NOT recommend

XoftSpy as I commented about in another Thread . For quite some time, AVG AntiSpyware has been the

top FREE antiSPYWARE program by many Malware-fighting Experts . Can always submit samples of

"detected" malware to [http://www.virustotal.com/] to see IF other companies "detect" also !?

I know of no SPECIFIC Scanner for memory scanning .

[Flashorn]

Hi Spirit! Sorry it took so long to get back. That's to bad for memory scanner,I was hoping.Oh well. As for Asquared,I have been using it for the last year and a half,so far no complaints.On the other hand,if you use a heuristic scanner should'nt you expect some false positive? Isn't the white listing for that purpose? Now XoftSpySE, I use it on a regular basis and works well for me.The only time it reported a false positive is when I was using BitTorrent but since app went legal it installs 6 registry entries that the scanner took as harmfull,other than that nothing. I did post a hjt. to VirusTotal when I did all of my scans.They reported nothing.All negatives. Should you ever come across a memory scanner please let us know. Again Thank You for your time and patience.I think we ALL agree your input is precious to us all.


Flashorn


Patience is life.;-)