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"Avast just announced that the company has acquired the software company Piriform, best known for the software program CCleaner for Windows.
Piriform's flagship product is CCleaner, a temporary file cleaner and traces remover for Windows. The company has created other respectable programs such as Speccy, a hardware inventory software, Defraggler, a file defragmentation program, and Recuva, a file recovery application." - via Ghacks
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(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 19 2017, @08:35PM (2 children)
Just download a free antivirus livecd and scan your system with that.
Options include but are not limited to:
AVG:
https://www.avg.com/en-us/rescue-cd-business-edition [avg.com]
https://www.avg.com/en-us/download.prd-arl [avg.com]
Avira:
https://www.avira.com/en/download/product/avira-rescue-system [avira.com]
Bitdefender:
http://download.bitdefender.com/rescue_cd/ [bitdefender.com]
Comodo:
https://www.comodo.com/business-security/network-protection/rescue-disk.php [comodo.com]
Dr. Web:
https://free.drweb.com/aid_admin/ [drweb.com]
F-Secure:
ftp://ftp.f-secure.com/anti-virus/tools/Rescue%20CD/ [f-secure.com]
https://www.f-secure.com/en/web/labs_global/tools-beta [f-secure.com]
Kaspersky:
http://support.kaspersky.com/viruses/rescuedisk?level=2 [kaspersky.com]
http://rescuedisk.kaspersky-labs.com/rescuedisk/updatable/kav_rescue_10.iso [kaspersky-labs.com]
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Lagg on Wednesday July 19 2017, @10:51PM
I haven't ran anything Windows doesn't already have since 7 for viruses and spyware, stopped running anything but Spybot S&D (Before it sucked) back in XP. Ccleaner isn't for malware, it's to clean up shit that Windows userspace and third party stuff likes to drop like registry entries that make nonsensical menu entries, logs, temp files, core dumps, etc.
Sadly, i've never found anything that works as well as it does. Nor anything that has a self-contained zip file that you can download, run, then delete. Was pretty valuable for a chunk of my field technician stint.
http://lagg.me [lagg.me] 🗿
(Score: 5, Informative) by Arik on Thursday July 20 2017, @01:00AM
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?