Best free malware scanners for Windows 10?

Rene Lamontagne wrote:

On 08/26/2018 1:12 PM, XS11E wrote:
Rene Lamontagne wrote:

Boy, my spelling is atrocious today. :-)

Got you beat, my spelling is atrocious EVERY day, I rely on spell
checkers...


Me too but my spellchecker doesn't know all the good words. :-)

True and sum spell chukkers dew knot work write.


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"Louis Fabron" wrote in message news

Louis Fabron wrote:

The only one that found anything that I don't know yet is the Microsoft
msrt which is running on hours so I have to wait to find what it found.

After more than 25 hours it finally finished and said it was clean.
https://image.ibb.co/k7HxA9/mstool01.jpg

Even though in the very beginning it said 1 infected file was found.
https://image.ibb.co/kzQjq9/mstool00.jpg

That mysterious "infected file" never showed up in the final output.

So everything is clean according to the four suggested tools
malwarebytes adwcleaner & malwarebytes mwb & norton powereraser the MS
malicious software removal tool.

If there is another known good reliable freeware tool for running a malware
scan let me know otherwise I'll give up at this point given the four
suggested tools already said it is clean.


And the results of looking at the Task Manager are...?
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Bob_S wrote:

And the results of looking at the Task Manager are...?

Thank you for that idea on the task manager whose numbers looked good.
https://image.ibb.co/k1awnp/taskman.jpg

I tried the taskmanager and all the scanners on another machine to test the
difference where the other machine was worse in all cases than the first.
https://image.ibb.co/eFKiYU/taskman2.jpg

On 08/27/2018 7:24 AM, Wolf K wrote:
On 2018-08-26 19:47, XS11E wrote:
Rene Lamontagne wrote:

On 08/26/2018 1:12 PM, XS11E wrote:
Rene Lamontagne wrote:

Boy, my spelling is atrocious today. :-)

Got you beat, my spelling is atrocious EVERY day, I rely on spell
checkers...


Me too but my spellchecker doesn't know all the good words.Â* :-)

True and sum spell chukkers dew knot work write.

All things considered, it's amazing spellcheckers work as well as they
do. Really. :-)

Most important fact: English has more words than any other language. No
spellchecker contains them all.

Factors that complicate spellchecking:
a) English has a lot of homonyms: homographs (words spelt alike but
pronounced differently) and homophones (words spelt differently but
pronounced the same).
b) In English, most spellings (letters and groups of letters) stand for
two or more sounds; and all sounds can be spelt two or more different
ways (single/multiple letters as in m/mb).
c) English has a lot of anagrams: different words spelt with the same
letters).
d) English includes a lot of regional variants in spelling (such as
spelled/spelt).
e) Spellcheckers use the cheapest dictionaries available. The best IMO
is in Word, because Microsoft went to the trouble of creating its own
dictionary, and did pretty good job.
f) English has a lot of near-homonyms with different meanings
(accept/except, for example).
g) The grammar/usage checkers that can help a user select the correct
word are worse than the spellcheckers.
h) individuals have different lexicons, which differ mostly in
technical, trade/business, and regional words, as well as in the
selection of rare words.

All alphabetic writing systems have these weaknesses, but none as much
as English. It's made worse by the terribly confused way that spelling
is taught, with letter names taking precedence over letter sounds, as in
short-a (bat), long-a (bate), which anyone who listens knows is stupid.

Best,



Yes, I sometimes wonder at the complexity of the English language, it
quite often makes no sense.

Rene

On Mon, 27 Aug 2018 08:24:44 -0400, Wolf K
wrote:

On 2018-08-26 19:47, XS11E wrote:
Rene Lamontagne wrote:

On 08/26/2018 1:12 PM, XS11E wrote:
Rene Lamontagne wrote:

Boy, my spelling is atrocious today. :-)

Got you beat, my spelling is atrocious EVERY day, I rely on spell
checkers...


Me too but my spellchecker doesn't know all the good words. :-)

True and sum spell chukkers dew knot work write.

All things considered, it's amazing spellcheckers work as well as they
do. Really. :-)

Most important fact: English has more words than any other language. No
spellchecker contains them all.

Factors that complicate spellchecking:
a) English has a lot of homonyms: homographs (words spelt alike but
pronounced differently) and homophones (words spelt differently but
pronounced the same).
b) In English, most spellings (letters and groups of letters) stand for
two or more sounds; and all sounds can be spelt two or more different
ways (single/multiple letters as in m/mb).
c) English has a lot of anagrams: different words spelt with the same
letters).
d) English includes a lot of regional variants in spelling (such as
spelled/spelt).
e) Spellcheckers use the cheapest dictionaries available. The best IMO
is in Word, because Microsoft went to the trouble of creating its own
dictionary, and did pretty good job.
f) English has a lot of near-homonyms with different meanings
(accept/except, for example).
g) The grammar/usage checkers that can help a user select the correct
word are worse than the spellcheckers.
h) individuals have different lexicons, which differ mostly in
technical, trade/business, and regional words, as well as in the
selection of rare words.

All alphabetic writing systems have these weaknesses, but none as much
as English. It's made worse by the terribly confused way that spelling
is taught, with letter names taking precedence over letter sounds, as in
short-a (bat), long-a (bate), which anyone who listens knows is stupid.



As far as I'm concerned, the biggest problems with spell-checking are
two:

1. context--your factor a above. Whether a word is spelled correctly
depends on what it means in the sentence. As an example, if I write
"the breaks in my car don't work," most spell checkers would not know
that "breaks" is spelled wrong.

2. your factor c above

And your factor g is very much true. Grammar checkers are next to
useless.

On 8/27/2018 8:11 AM, Ken Blake wrote:

As far as I'm concerned, the biggest problems with spell-checking are
two:

1. context--your factor a above. Whether a word is spelled correctly
depends on what it means in the sentence. As an example, if I write
"the breaks in my car don't work," most spell checkers would not know
that "breaks" is spelled wrong.

Your dam rite...

On Mon, 27 Aug 2018 08:24:44 -0400, Wolf K
wrote:

The grammar/usage checkers that can help a user select the correct
word are worse than the spellcheckers.

Many grammar checkers work very well but users vary in their
education. Whenever I think the grammar checker is wrong I look up the
grammar of the whole line using Word and Chrome. On balance the
checker gets more lines correct than me.

Steve

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Louis Fabron wrote in
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I have a slow desktop where I may just reinstall Windows 10 which is
probably the best way to fix it.

But if I can't easily reinstall Windows 10 I'll run some malware scans
but they make me crazy by false reports (for example, malwarebytes
flags the common mvp hosts file as trojan.agent malware).

The windows malicious software removal tool heuristics found
uninstalled programs as malware, so, that's not useful either (as they
were automatic hostname changers).

Can you give me advice on some of the best free Windows 10 malware
checkers to try next that don't have so many false flag reports?

Hitman Pro used to offer their Pro version which reverted to just a
scanner after one month. Seems that it's now a 30 day trial but as it's
only the scanner that you're after it should be ok.
- https://www.hitmanpro.com/en-us/hmp.aspx

There are other free tools on the Sophos site
- https://www.sophos.com/en-us/products/free-tools.aspx

There are several free online scanners such as:
Trend Housecall - http://housecall.trendmicro.com/uk/
Eset - https://www.eset.com/uk/home/online-scanner/
FSecure - https://www.f-secure.com/en_GB/web/h...online-scanner
Kaspersky - https://www.kaspersky.co.uk/free-virus-scan

etc.

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Regards
wasbit

Rene Lamontagne wrote:

Yes, I sometimes wonder at the complexity of the English language,
it quite often makes no sense.

It makes a little more sense if you remember English and particularly
the American version of English isn't really a single language, it's an
amalgam of many languages and often grammar and spelling rules are
"borrowed" from those other languages which creates inconsistencies..

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On Mon, 27 Aug 2018 14:18:14 -0400, Wolf K
wrote:

On 2018-08-27 12:24, Stephen Wolstenholme wrote:
On Mon, 27 Aug 2018 08:24:44 -0400, Wolf K
wrote:

The grammar/usage checkers that can help a user select the correct
word are worse than the spellcheckers.

Many grammar checkers work very well but users vary in their
education. Whenever I think the grammar checker is wrong I look up the
grammar of the whole line using Word and Chrome. On balance the
checker gets more lines correct than me.

Steve


'K, I haven't used the one in Word (I don't have Word), so it may well
be better than the one in WordPerfect. I'll check it out when I get a
chance.


It's no better--not in my view anyway.

"Louis Fabron" wrote in message
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Louis Fabron wrote:

The only one that found anything that I don't know yet is the Microsoft
msrt which is running on hours so I have to wait to find what it found.

After more than 25 hours it finally finished and said it was clean.
https://image.ibb.co/k7HxA9/mstool01.jpg

Even though in the very beginning it said 1 infected file was found.
https://image.ibb.co/kzQjq9/mstool00.jpg

That mysterious "infected file" never showed up in the final output.

So everything is clean according to the four suggested tools
malwarebytes adwcleaner & malwarebytes mwb & norton powereraser the MS
malicious software removal tool.

If there is another known good reliable freeware tool for running a
malware
scan let me know otherwise I'll give up at this point given the four
suggested tools already said it is clean.
Try SuperAntiSypware and just uncheck the "Check internet browser tracking
cookies" when you do the scan to alleviate the multitude of innocent crap.
Buffalo
https://www.superantispyware.com/?tag=SUPERANTISPYWARE