Do you know of any other Anti-Virus software that is Execable from a boot CD/DVD/ISB DRIVE, run prior to Windows boot?
Avast makes a bootable one via BartCD "I think" however I believe it's commercial software though.
I think Trend Micro may still have a free Boot Disk maker that fits onto several floppies (the last time I used it many years ago I needed seven floppy disks). It would probably take some work to transfer it to CD although I think it's probably possible. I'd image you'd still need a standard Windows bootdisk to bypass the startup files on the hard disk to do a virus scan without the possibility of infected system files causing problems.
Personally I prefer Trend Micro's Sysclean Package, which of course requires a separate pattern file download - lately I've been using it as a secondary malware scanner instead of using ClamWin.
How do you like your newest choice of Anti-Virus software?
I'm using Avast Home Edition, however I prefer AntiVir! I'm not in love with Avast, which is mostly because of it's GUI design, or lack thereof a good design however that's my only complaint about it. Even the Avast Simple User Interface doesn't thrill me one bit let alone the media player looking skinned interface which is too busy, and too much of a search process to do a simple virus scan.
I just downloaded the newest AntiVir and I'll uninstall Avast a little later on today to see if AntiVir will finally update - although if AntiVir still won't update I'll reluctantly have no choice but to go back to Avast yet again. ![:(]()
What Anti-Spyware/s do you like?
At the moment and for some time now all I've been using is Ad-Aware SE Personal, Spybot-S&D, and SuperAntiSpyware and I rarely scan with them. I could however trim things down and remove the "nostalgia scanners" ("Ad-Aware, Spybot-S&D") and just use SuperAntiSpyware because I simply don't get any adware or spyware infections, and haven't for about seven or more years now.
Occasionally for the mere hell of it (no other reason really) I'll install and use AVG Anti-Spyware and do a complete scan and it never finds anything! ![:rolleyes:]()
However I have to uninstall it afterwards because for some reason it makes my PC act funky even if I fully disable it's resident shield/services.