Geek Software of the Week: Malwarebytes Anti-Malware!
Speaking of bad downloads (as in the previous post on Google Chrome) what do you do if you think that you may have been infected with Malware? Find a good scanner! Here’s a good one that comes in a free version, or you can purchase a license and unlock even more features!
“Have you ever considered what makes an anti-malware application effective? We at Malwarebytes have created an easy-to-use, simple, and effective anti-malware application. Whether you know it or not your computer is always at risk of becoming infected with viruses, worms, trojans, rootkits, dialers, spyware, and malware that are constantly evolving and becoming harder to detect and remove. Only the most sophisticated anti-malware techniques can detect and remove these malicious programs from your computer.
Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware is considered to be the next step in the detection and removal of malware. In our product we have compiled a number of new technologies that are designed to quickly detect, destroy, and prevent malware. Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware can detect and remove malware that even the most well known anti-virus and anti-malware applications fail to detect. Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware monitors every process and stops malicious processes before they even start. The realtime protection module uses our advanced heuristic scanning technology which monitors your system to keep it safe and secure. In addition, we have implemented a threats center which will allow you to keep up to date with the latest malware threats.”
Features:
- Support for Windows 2000, XP, Vista, and 7 (32-bit and 64-bit).
- Light speed quick scanning.
- Ability to perform full scans for all drives.
- Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware protection module. (requires registration)
- Database updates released daily.
- Quarantine to hold threats and restore them at your convenience.
- Ignore list for both the scanner and Protection Module.
- Settings to enhance your Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware performance.
- A small list of extra utilities to help remove malware manually.
- Multi-lingual support.
- Works together with other anti-malware utilities.
- Command line support for quick scanning.
- Context menu integration to scan files on demand.
Who would’ve thunk it!? A “Commodore 64” that is really a modern Ubuntu-based PC! And, coming soon, the VIC-20! Flashback to the past!
Yay! And I was there, on the Internet (no, no World Wide Web at that time) in tyeh Usenet newsgroups when Linus Torvalds posted his description of a Unix-like OS that he was creating! And, I have been involved with Linux ever since! Very cool!
Make your plans to move before then! I already have, and I like Windows 7… but businesses are being slow to migrate, and they need to get their PCs, and their applications, working on Windows 7 as soon as possible! XP and Office 2003 are going the way of the dinosaur! So, let’s get with it folks!
If you use Google Chrome, you will note that if you click on an RSS feed on a web site, you just get a list of the text of the site, it is not organized in a nice web screen, as it is in Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox. This is a shame. They do it because they have their own RSS News Reader, that came out BEFORE they came out with Google Chrome. Sigh. I use an RSS plugin for Chrome called “Slick RSS,” but, if you want a “standalone” RSS Reader, try out RSSOwl!