Malwarebites?

Ron wrote:
On 2/20/2015 2:26 PM, A wrote:
Ron wrote:
On 2/20/2015 8:03 AM, A wrote:
Ron wrote:
On 2/19/2015 10:28 AM, A wrote:
Ron wrote:
On 2/19/2015 9:35 AM, A wrote:
Ron wrote:
On 2/19/2015 1:57 AM, Andy wrote:
You're first problem was you used McAfee software the company
with
the
worst
reputation in the business.
so you're BS is you're own ignorance.
I wouldn't use McAfee products if you GAVE them to me.

McAfee SiteAdvisor was the first tool of it's kind AFAIK.
And, it
was
also "recommended monthly in many pc magazines". Isn't that your
standard? So, I guess you are smarter that McAfee SiteAdvisor,
right?
Because you test THOUSANDS of websites like McAfee does to see if
they
are safe, right?



Ever hear of W.O.T.? **** McAfee.


If you read my post to Andy from yesterday you will see that I use
WOT
now. But several years ago, probably about 10 now, Site Advisor was
the
only tool of it's kind, that I know of. Now there are many tools
that
rate websites.

When you have to have a special tool to uninstall a program, me no
like.
McAfee doesn't have a good reputation compared to other programs
and is
a resource hog. Free Avast is better.


As I've already mentioned, SiteAdvisor is a *browser add-on*.

Not relevant.

You said that you needed a "special tool" to remove McAfee. You don't
need a "special tool" to remove the browser add-on. So it's very
relevant to what is being discussed.

And IMO,
Panda is a better AV program than Avast.

LOL! That's funny!

Yeah, so funny that it's rated higher in protection and performance than
Avast.

http://www.av-test.org/en/antivirus/...ows/windows-8/

Speaking of resource hogs, that
is exactly what Avast has become. At least it was the last time I used
it 2 years ago.

I never had a problem with Avast and I've been using it over a
decade. I
do like it's boot scan.

Yeah, boot time scan is a good feature. They need to remove the program
updater. It's useless.





If I were going to pay, and Panda isn't free, I would buy Kaspersky. I
also have a lot of things like Malwarebytes, Spybot S&D, etc.


Panda is free.

No, it has a free trial. I just went to their site.

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A

Ron wrote:
On 2/20/2015 2:29 PM, A wrote:
Ron wrote:
On 2/20/2015 8:03 AM, A wrote:
Ron wrote:
On 2/19/2015 10:28 AM, A wrote:
Ron wrote:
On 2/19/2015 9:35 AM, A wrote:
Ron wrote:
On 2/19/2015 1:57 AM, Andy wrote:
You're first problem was you used McAfee software the company
with
the
worst
reputation in the business.
so you're BS is you're own ignorance.
I wouldn't use McAfee products if you GAVE them to me.

McAfee SiteAdvisor was the first tool of it's kind AFAIK.
And, it
was
also "recommended monthly in many pc magazines". Isn't that your
standard? So, I guess you are smarter that McAfee SiteAdvisor,
right?
Because you test THOUSANDS of websites like McAfee does to see if
they
are safe, right?



Ever hear of W.O.T.? **** McAfee.


If you read my post to Andy from yesterday you will see that I use
WOT
now. But several years ago, probably about 10 now, Site Advisor was
the
only tool of it's kind, that I know of. Now there are many tools
that
rate websites.

When you have to have a special tool to uninstall a program, me no
like.
McAfee doesn't have a good reputation compared to other programs
and is
a resource hog. Free Avast is better.


As I've already mentioned, SiteAdvisor is a *browser add-on*.

Not relevant.

You said that you needed a "special tool" to remove McAfee. You don't
need a "special tool" to remove the browser add-on. So it's very
relevant to what is being discussed.

And IMO,
Panda is a better AV program than Avast.

LOL! That's funny!

Yeah, so funny that it's rated higher in protection and performance than
Avast.

http://www.av-test.org/en/antivirus/...ows/windows-8/

Avast wasn't tested.



Yes, it was.

I didn't see it until now.

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A

A wrote:
Ron wrote:
On 2/20/2015 2:26 PM, A wrote:
Ron wrote:
On 2/20/2015 8:03 AM, A wrote:
Ron wrote:
On 2/19/2015 10:28 AM, A wrote:
Ron wrote:
On 2/19/2015 9:35 AM, A wrote:
Ron wrote:
On 2/19/2015 1:57 AM, Andy wrote:
You're first problem was you used McAfee software the company
with
the
worst
reputation in the business.
so you're BS is you're own ignorance.
I wouldn't use McAfee products if you GAVE them to me.

McAfee SiteAdvisor was the first tool of it's kind AFAIK.
And, it
was
also "recommended monthly in many pc magazines". Isn't that your
standard? So, I guess you are smarter that McAfee SiteAdvisor,
right?
Because you test THOUSANDS of websites like McAfee does to see if
they
are safe, right?



Ever hear of W.O.T.? **** McAfee.


If you read my post to Andy from yesterday you will see that I use
WOT
now. But several years ago, probably about 10 now, Site Advisor was
the
only tool of it's kind, that I know of. Now there are many tools
that
rate websites.

When you have to have a special tool to uninstall a program, me no
like.
McAfee doesn't have a good reputation compared to other programs
and is
a resource hog. Free Avast is better.


As I've already mentioned, SiteAdvisor is a *browser add-on*.

Not relevant.

You said that you needed a "special tool" to remove McAfee. You don't
need a "special tool" to remove the browser add-on. So it's very
relevant to what is being discussed.

And IMO,
Panda is a better AV program than Avast.

LOL! That's funny!

Yeah, so funny that it's rated higher in protection and performance
than
Avast.

http://www.av-test.org/en/antivirus/...ows/windows-8/

Speaking of resource hogs, that
is exactly what Avast has become. At least it was the last time I
used
it 2 years ago.

I never had a problem with Avast and I've been using it over a
decade. I
do like it's boot scan.

Yeah, boot time scan is a good feature. They need to remove the program
updater. It's useless.





If I were going to pay, and Panda isn't free, I would buy Kaspersky. I
also have a lot of things like Malwarebytes, Spybot S&D, etc.


Panda is free.

No, it has a free trial. I just went to their site.


Take that back, I found the free version. I may try it on another
computer I have with 8.1.

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A

On 19/02/2015 20:54, Stuart McCall wrote:
"mechanic" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 13:32:09 -0500, Cy Burnot wrote:

If you do not want real-time protection, you can run as many scans with
as many different programs as you like -- AFTER you've been infected!

As long as you check for viruses *before* you run the file, you
should be ok. Continually checking all your files for malware is
wasting resources.

+1



Some of the Malware that causes the most trouble is the clever stuff
created by people who found a vulnerability that lets it run without the
user asking for it to run.

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Brian Gregory (in the UK).
To email me please remove all the letter vee from my email address.

On 09/02/2015 22:25, Glenn wrote:
On Mon, 09 Feb 2015 16:11:28 -0600, Gordon
wrote:

On Mon, 9 Feb 2015 13:52:07 -0800, "Gene E. Bloch"
wrote:

On Mon, 09 Feb 2015 15:11:53 -0600, Gordon wrote:

I have been having some problems with my HP Pavilion, running Windows
8.1. It seemed to be loaded up with trash and other forms of malware.
I bought an on-line copy of Malwarebites, installed it and ran it this
morning. Everything went very well and most of the problems seem to
have been eradicated...but, I keep getting a pop-up saying,

There was a problem starting
C:\Gordon\ApData\Local\ARCADE~1\CATHEL~1.DLL
The specified module could not be found.

What is causing this, and how can I get rid of it?

Thanks, Gordon

The "i" in Malwarebytes is actually a "y", BTW.

Somewhere your Windows is starting a program that wants to run that dll
file. A dll file is a secondary file (a library file) that is a separate
part of an executable program.

You would need to find the name of the program. Presumably it's in a
directory whose name starts with ARCADE (if you're lucky, there's only
one such directory), in a subfolder whose name starts with CATHEL. Some
of the letters in those names will probably be lower case, which doesn't
matter to Windows, so you needn't worry about it.

So go to one of your program folders or to C:\Gordon\AppData\Local\ to
help you identify the offending program. Note that AppData has two p's.

Except I'm guessing that the odds are that the program is not there any
more, just a fossil in your startup axis. So take it out of your startup
axis, or if it's actually something you want, reinstall it to fix
whatever is broken.

Let's hope it's not malware.

I tried but couldn't find anything that I could identify with this
problem pop up. Would running Windows Defender likely help with this?

Yes, it helped me once when malwarebytes didn't.


Malwarebytes is specifically designed to run along side other AV
software and to me it seems that it doesn't try to catch all Malware.
The Malwarebytes people themselves seem to insist that it ISN'T
antivirus software at all without saying exactly what they do want it to
be classified as. I get the impression they concentrate more on the
stuff that other AV vendors ignore because while it's annoying and might
require some research to remove manually it isn't doing anything too
nasty to the user and/or is usually only acquired by ignorant and/or
careless users.

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Brian Gregory (in the UK).
To email me please remove all the letter vee from my email address.

mechanic wrote on 2/19/2015 1:59 PM:
On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 13:32:09 -0500, Cy Burnot wrote:

If you do not want real-time protection, you can run as many scans with
as many different programs as you like -- AFTER you've been infected!

As long as you check for viruses *before* you run the file, you
should be ok.

And it it's a "drive-by" from an infected website????

On 09/02/2015 23:26, Gordon wrote:
On Mon, 9 Feb 2015 14:56:10 -0800, "Gene E. Bloch"
wrote:

On Mon, 09 Feb 2015 17:22:30 -0500, Slimer wrote:

On Mon, 09 Feb 2015 16:11:53 -0500, Gordon wrote:

I have been having some problems with my HP Pavilion, running Windows
8.1. It seemed to be loaded up with trash and other forms of malware.
I bought an on-line copy of Malwarebites, installed it and ran it this
morning. Everything went very well and most of the problems seem to
have been eradicated...but, I keep getting a pop-up saying,

There was a problem starting
C:\Gordon\ApData\Local\ARCADE~1\CATHEL~1.DLL
The specified module could not be found.

What is causing this, and how can I get rid of it?

Thanks, Gordon

Use Ccleaner and clean the registry. It'll remove any entry linking to
that module.

As well as some possibly necessary items, according to some people who
post here.

I can't recommend that procedure to a novice operator.

In fact, I'm not a novice operator, and I find the list of items that
CCleaner offers to remove way too large for reasonable judgment calls...

I'm beginning to think this is a registry problem that resulted when
Malwarebytes removed the associated program but didn't remove the
registry entry. How can I check this out? Gordon


Beginning to?
From the start it was obvious.

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Brian Gregory (in the UK).
To email me please remove all the letter vee from my email address.

On 09/02/2015 21:11, Gordon wrote:
I have been having some problems with my HP Pavilion, running Windows
8.1. It seemed to be loaded up with trash and other forms of malware.
I bought an on-line copy of Malwarebites, installed it and ran it this
morning. Everything went very well and most of the problems seem to
have been eradicated...but, I keep getting a pop-up saying,

There was a problem starting
C:\Gordon\ApData\Local\ARCADE~1\CATHEL~1.DLL
The specified module could not be found.

What is causing this, and how can I get rid of it?

Thanks, Gordon


Presumably you mean
C:\Users\Gordon\AppData\Local\ ... and so on.

--

Brian Gregory (in the UK).
To email me please remove all the letter vee from my email address.

On Sat, 21 Feb 2015 19:02:46 -0500, Alek wrote:

mechanic wrote on 2/19/2015 1:59 PM:
On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 13:32:09 -0500, Cy Burnot wrote:

If you do not want real-time protection, you can run as many
scans with as many different programs as you like -- AFTER
you've been infected!

As long as you check for viruses *before* you run the file, you
should be ok.

And it it's a "drive-by" from an infected website????

Firefox has settings for that (tools - options - security)

mechanic wrote on 2/22/2015 3:10 PM:
On Sat, 21 Feb 2015 19:02:46 -0500, Alek wrote:

And it it's a "drive-by" from an infected website????

Firefox has settings for that (tools - options - security)

FF is not the only browser people use. :-)

To: mechanic
Malwarebites?
By: mechanic to alt.comp.os.windows-8 on Sun Feb 22 2015 08:10 pm

From Newsgroup: alt.comp.os.windows-8

On Sat, 21 Feb 2015 19:02:46 -0500, Alek wrote:

mechanic wrote on 2/19/2015 1:59 PM:
On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 13:32:09 -0500, Cy Burnot wrote:

If you do not want real-time protection, you can run as many
scans with as many different programs as you like -- AFTER
you've been infected!

As long as you check for viruses *before* you run the file, you
should be ok.

And it it's a "drive-by" from an infected website????

Firefox has settings for that (tools - options - security)
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No one cares what you think honistly.

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"Justin Tyme" wrote in message
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On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 03:10:04 -0500, "Andy" wrote:

GROW UP char no one cares what you think of me or any one else on the news
groups.
i have never had a problem with the sprint company and for the record i
NEVER buy any thing from a kiosk.
its a brick and mortor store or nothing.
you just dont get it nore you hawk or bill or all the other news group
trolls will get rid of me.
ill be posting long after youre all dead and gone.
its sad you spend youre life trying to find others to pick on put down ect
trying to make youre self look better.
i own what i own and live a very lavish life and iam proud of it.
those who cut down the upper class workers like my self are really jelous
of
what YOU DONT HAVE

With all your vast experience and wealth I am surprised that you have
not yet learned to use a spelling checker. Your credibility is zero
when you write like an elementary school dropout. You don't appear to
be the sharpest tool in the shed, Andy. Boasting like that makes you
look foolish or worse. I also call Bull****!
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I second that i have never used it every new system i have bought it's the
first program to hit the uninstall list


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"Stephen Wolstenholme" wrote in message
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On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 09:33:37 -0500, Ron wrote:

On 2/19/2015 1:57 AM, Andy wrote:
You're first problem was you used McAfee software the company with the
worst
reputation in the business.
so you're BS is you're own ignorance.
I wouldn't use McAfee products if you GAVE them to me.

McAfee SiteAdvisor was the first tool of it's kind AFAIK. And, it was
also "recommended monthly in many pc magazines". Isn't that your
standard? So, I guess you are smarter that McAfee SiteAdvisor, right?
Because you test THOUSANDS of websites like McAfee does to see if they
are safe, right?


Do McAfee test thousands of sites before they receive reports from
users? They didn't when I used them years ago. The only thing I
remember now is it was a pain removing the software from a new PC. I
would not use Mcfee again.

Steve

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Neural Network Software for Windows http://www.npsnn.com

Add on yes and found to be insecure and not reliable


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"Ron" wrote in message
...
On 2/19/2015 9:50 AM, Stephen Wolstenholme wrote:
On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 09:33:37 -0500, Ron wrote:

On 2/19/2015 1:57 AM, Andy wrote:
You're first problem was you used McAfee software the company with the
worst
reputation in the business.
so you're BS is you're own ignorance.
I wouldn't use McAfee products if you GAVE them to me.

McAfee SiteAdvisor was the first tool of it's kind AFAIK. And, it was
also "recommended monthly in many pc magazines". Isn't that your
standard? So, I guess you are smarter that McAfee SiteAdvisor, right?
Because you test THOUSANDS of websites like McAfee does to see if they
are safe, right?


Do McAfee test thousands of sites before they receive reports from
users? They didn't when I used them years ago. The only thing I
remember now is it was a pain removing the software from a new PC. I
would not use Mcfee again.


SiteAdvisor is a browser add-on.

On Tue, 24 Feb 2015 02:53:19 -0500, "Andy" wrote:

No one cares what you think honistly.

Honistly (sic), you should get back to your mopping. The mall isn't going to
clean itself.