Avoid free antivirus products?

From: "RH710" <rhall710.DeleteThis@mail.com>


| David is right about Antivir and use his Mult_av for deep scans in dos.It is
| a great program and gives you the choice of several vendors.Ask David about
| that.Later RH710
|

Well lets put that in perspective...

The McAfee and Sophos command line scanners come in two flavours; a DOS Scanner and a Win32
console scanner. The Win32 versions may look like a DOS command but they are full Win32
compliant utilities. If you use a utility such as Dependecy Checker you will see they load
Win32 DLLs.

The Trend Micro scanner is a Win32 GUI.

The Kaspersky scanner is ONLT a DOS scanner.

The DOS scanners will find and remove file but will NOT repair changes made to Win32
constructs like the Registry.

The DOS scanners have the capapility of being used outside the Win32 OS, such as after
booting from a DOS Disk, such that malware can be removed with out protection scames or
their respective file handles being held open by the OS.

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