I have been using that as well Pete lately as it seems lately some of the Malware Removal I have done has been quite destructive

and I am starting to try to narrow in on which product is causing this. yesterday i.e. no doubt it was "Hitman Pro" that crippled a system removing an MBR rootkit.

I installed "Hitman Pro" a few days ago and wasn't impressed. I uninstalled it.

Another program I tried was "SpyHunter4" What rubbish and had difficulty getting it off my system completely.

I road test a lot of programs.:)

Funny I just decided to try Spy Hunter maybe because Gimbo said he uses it the other night and I have to agree it is rubbish and after claiming to find all sorts of things and you need to buy it to remove them. When you refuse and uninstall it offers to sell it to you for $10.

Hell WOT went off when I went to the site to begin with.

Hitman Pro though is a good product Dougie and actually probably the best one against the Crypto Lockker group. I do feel it is very thorough in some areas but not yet a really complete product in my estimation, but a good component of an arsenal of different products nevertheless.

My best defense against "Crypto Locker" is I have my OS cloned onto another HDD with Macrium and keep it updated.

I have to agree re "Hitman Pro" just didn't do it for me.

The layered security I have now is really working great.

Use whatever works for you.:)

As long as that hard drive is offline you are ok but remember 2 things. Crypto Locker travels across a network at great speeds and as soon as you restore your image file it can also be encrypted unless the virus is completely gone. I would low level format the drive before even trying a restore.

Good advice, Rich. I have done a lot of reading on "Crypto Locker"

Each computer has a cloned back up on an external drive not hooked up to my network.

Better safe than sorry.

Yeah this one really is the scariest thing we have ever faced and what makes it so scary is there are still not real 100% cures and we are nearing 2 years since its inception.

Yeah this one really is the scariest thing we have ever faced and what makes it so scary is there are still not real 100% cures and we are nearing 2 years since its inception.

 

Very profitable for the Crypto gang. I read in the first 100 days they made $30 mil.

I just spent an extra hour getting rid of the remnants of Spy Hunter. How could anyone think that is a useful program?

Yeah this one made a lot of money for "the dark side", Dougie.

Only two programs have given me problems removing every trace,and I have road tested many.

One is Spyhunter 4 and the other was 0&0 defrag. 0&0 was worse than Spyhunter.

Wow I used O&O years ago that was a decent program. Well I used O&O Defragger.

0&0 Defraggler is a good program, Rich.

I run mostly SSD's now and no longer needed it.

The uninstall was the headache.Took me ages to get rid of all traces.

Yeah me too I run mostly ssd drives myself, I was just surprised you had trouble removing O&O as I don't remember an issue

but what happened, happened obviously.