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By: Virus & Spyware Guide - Clean & Preventing Windows Infections (Part 2)

Virus & Spyware Guide - Clean & Preventing Windows Infections (Part 2) — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 06:48:48 +0000

[...] but my main arsenal against such threats and definitely the most useful files in my toolkit are ComboFix & [...]

By: Babar

Babar — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 18:16:54 +0000

Combofix is an amazing anti virus software. it cleans up my whole computer in seconds of a minute. i use combofix after visity different websites. it is really a nice software. you guys are doing a very nice job. keep it up and get prayers of hundreds of millions users all over the world.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 02:24:31 +0000

thanks for your file

By: wondering

wondering — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:39:01 +0000

To extend your point about Mainstream anti-virus. At the time of my mishap (described above), I was using Comcast’s free version of McAfee. My only recourse after getting infected was to pay them $79 to fix the problem. I understand that the fee would have been refunded had they failed. Luckily I found combofix first thru a friend’s friend. I did tweet my experience.

Also, anti-virus on laptops is tricky, you don’t want the scanner running when you are using the laptop and then when not using it – you turn it off. This leaves no time for the updater or full scanner to run.

By: Rosco

Rosco — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:51:28 +0000

Hi…eh Mr. Wondering…

Thanks for your comments on the subject of Combofix.
I admire someone who raises the tough questions. All perfectly valid and understandable. However, one could also ask questions such as:

1) How is it that one guy called sUBs can create a free tool that is capable of removing viruses that no mainstream anti-virus can remove?
2) Are the mainstream anti-virus manufacturers the ones creating the viruses and holding back on removing them all in the interest of selling more anti-virus subscriptions?

I have always found it hard to believe that muli-million dollar companies are incapable of creating such tools as Combofix and that there has been a steady stream of viruses created every week just to keep the anti-virus subscriptions ticking over and keep the consumer in fear of being attacked.

This is one of the great debates and I feel shall continue to be.

To quickly try to answer some of your questions with my own opinions –

1) I believe this tool is created by bleepingcomputer.com considering the disclaimer on the tool mentions this site. See this http://img.bleepingcomputer.com/combofix/en/disclaimer.jpg

2) High trafficked sites – bleepingcomputer.com

3) Peer review: google combofix review and you should find plenty of stuff.

Rosco

By: wondering

wondering — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:53:44 +0000

I have used combofix personally with great success. I was amazed at what it could do while McAfee sat powerless in the system tray. At that point I could not even boot into safe mode…

However, I have reservations about the source and ultimate purpose of the software. Subs is all but anonymous. How do we know that it is not a trojan itself. What high-trafficked sites can it be downloaded from? Where is the peer review?

I mean no offense to the author who I owe a debt of gratitude to.