SUPERAntispyware Professional did not catch it or prevent it either did my Nod 32. MBAM found it and removed it easily. So my question then is this should I go back to using Avira PREMIUM which I have a paid key for, would that be better protection against Rootkits. Any insight into this would be most appreciated .

EDITED; I was just at both the Eset and Avira Websites and it seems only the Avira Antivirus actually states anywhere it has antirootkit protection. So back to using Avira Premium.

Well Nod 32 let me down i just finished scaning with Avira Premium and it found two Trojans called TR/Trash.Gen TWO DIFFERENT variants is it safe to delete them from quarantine or should i leave them in quarantine.

You can leave them in quarantine.

Thank You!!! for the advice much appreciated.

Quite a few AVs are supposed to find rootkits; but in tests I've seen, none of them do as well as the better dedicated antirootkit scanners. The ones that are consistently ranked highest are GMER and Rootkit Unhooker.

Okay thanks for the tip googling now.

Avast has an antirootkit module that scans after startup, silently. I believe it's based on Gmer.

hey thanks for the info you are right on i just looked at it i may try this out but i have those trojans in avira quarantine.

Hahahahaha, I don't have this problem.........

mainly because my MoBo died a horrible death and now I've got nothing on my HD and need to reload and update everything again...... on DIAL-UP..... ::cries::

Cheers :gold:

OOPS, YOW, OUCH , dial up is not that bad i used it once a time ago.

Oh Yes, it is that bad, especially when the fastest I can get is 31.2kbs........ and I had over 60Gb of programs files, not counting all the music and game files........

might have to spend the $AU400+ and go for wireless broadband, but I'm not liking my chances getting this past the Home Finance Minister..... ::le sigh::

Cheers :gold:

My thoughts and prayers are with you , man oh man that is a huge handful of stuff .

31.2kbs...man, that is bad. My heart goes out to you. :gold:

Quite a few AVs are supposed to find rootkits; but in tests I've seen, none of them do as well as the better dedicated antirootkit scanners. The ones that are consistently ranked highest are GMER and Rootkit Unhooker.

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