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Bog'liq What is Internet Browsing Планшетга, Amalyotdan 2-mustaqil ish !!!Ray Smith
October 16, 2015 at 4:13 pm
“You’re making several assumptions about exactly how malware scanners work.” – Actually, I worked for am antivirus company until about 3 years ago – in fact, I’ve worked with several over the years. They’re not assumptions :)
October 16, 2015 at 4:56 pm
It’s similar when it comes to manually scanning files downloaded from the internet. While plenty of people still do it, it’s actually completely unnecessary (assuming you have real-time protection, of course). If the background scanner doesn’t detect any malicious code in the file, the manual scanner will not either. You’ll get the exact same answer from both, because both use the exact same definitions and heuristics. And this, incidentally, is why Microsoft does not offer any form of right-click/manual scan option in Windows Defender: it’s pointless. The bottom line is: if your computer has malware actively running, it’ll either be detected by the background scanner or not detected at all.
If somebody is experiencing issues that they think may be attributable to malware that hasn’t been detected by their AV’s background scanner, the best course of action is to install an alternative AV/AM and scan with that. Manually scanning with the currently installed AV will not help.
October 22, 2015 at 3:53 pm
I helped a neighbor whose PC was clearly infected. Her antivirus program (unnamed here, but starting with an “A”) never caught it, never prevented it from infecting her computer.
I ran MalwareBytes, which found over 300 problems. I quarantined them. The computer was fixed. And a week later now, has stayed fixed.
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October 20, 2015 at 4:46 pm
I do a manual scan to use a different AV. Microsoft Security Essentials runs in the background. If I want to make sure that malware is not the culprit to a problem I’m having, I will do a manual scan using Malware Bytes. If both MSE in the background and Malware Bytes manual scan both report nothing, I’m fairly confident that malware is likely not the cause.
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