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Re: AV and Malwarebytes together?
From: "Keller, Alex" <axkeller () STANFORD EDU>
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 01:22:37 +0000
While dated, my 2012 post on this subject to another .edu list may be of peripheral interest.... "Regarding Malware Removal: A colleague brought to my attention that one of the more popular tools, the free version of Malwarebytes (http://www.malwarebytes.org), may NOT be legally used by a technician in an educational setting. I read over the EULA and disappointedly confirmed with their support team "The Free version of Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware is designed to be for home/personal use, and is not intended to be used in a business as well as educational, government, or non-profit environments. Proper licensing in these environments would be our Corporate license." Furthermore, a previously offered Malwarebytes Technician's license is no longer available: "Our Technician's License has been phased out of our product lineup and is no longer available for purchase. Our licenses are not designed for 'install-clean-uninstall' purposes, but rather to remain resident on the computer it is protecting." All is not lost, SUPERAntiSpyware is a formidable scanner (in spite of the name) and I received this response from their support staff "You can use the Free Edition (in an Educational setting) as long as you leave it installed on the system you used it on.": http://www.superantispyware.com Combofix. Powerful malware removal engine, use with caution: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/combofix/how-to-use-combofix RKill. Will attempt to kill known malicious processes, so you can get to work repairing: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/anti-virus/rkill ThreatKiller. Easy to use scripting environment for creating malware removal scripts: http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/remove-any-malware-with-the-power-of-custom-scripts/ ThreatExpert. Submit suspect Windows binaries and you are emailed a report with everything the malware attempts to do (which can inform your next steps for disinfection): http://www.threatexpert.com/filescan.aspx VirusTotal. Submit suspect Windows binaries and see if the most popular anti-virus engines detect a threat (and what they identify it as): http://www.virustotal.com/" Alex Keller Information Technology Stanford School of Engineering axkeller () stanford edu (650) 736-6421 -----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Nathan Hay Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2014 1:34 PM To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU Subject: [SECURITY] AV and Malwarebytes together? I no longer work in EDU, but I find these lists to be very helpful, so I hope you don't mind if I pose a question... Is anyone running Malwarebytes and AV software together on your PCs? Or do you have an AV vendor that you think does a good enough job on their own? We've found Malwarebytes can catch a good amount of stuff our current AV vendor isn't catching, so I'm considering running both. Malwarebytes claims to play nice with most AV vendors. Thank you, Nathan Hay Information Security Engineer | NOC WinWholesale Inc. 888-225-5947 ********************************************************************************************* This email message and any attachments is for use only by the named addressee(s) and may contain confidential, privileged and/or proprietary information. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender and delete and destroy the message and all copies. All unauthorized direct or indirect use or disclosure of this message is strictly prohibited. No right to confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any error in transmission. *********************************************************************************************
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- AV and Malwarebytes together? Nathan Hay (Sep 09)
- Re: AV and Malwarebytes together? Christopher Jones (Sep 09)
- Re: AV and Malwarebytes together? Mally Mclane (Sep 09)
- Re: AV and Malwarebytes together? Christopher Jones (Sep 09)
- Re: AV and Malwarebytes together? Mally Mclane (Sep 09)
- Re: AV and Malwarebytes together? Roger A Safian (Sep 09)
- Re: AV and Malwarebytes together? McCrary, Barbara (Sep 09)
- Re: AV and Malwarebytes together? David Gillett (Sep 09)
- Re: AV and Malwarebytes together? Keller, Alex (Sep 09)
- Re: AV and Malwarebytes together? Chris Steele (Sep 10)
- Re: AV and Malwarebytes together? Christopher Jones (Sep 09)