Friday, September 10, 2010

Remove Password – Symantec Uninstall

April 6, 2010 by Josh Mitchell  
Filed under Antivirus, Technical Blog

1) Open Regedit
2) Browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\INTEL\LANDesk\ VirusProtect6\CurrentVersion\Administrator Only\Security\
3) Change the value for this key from 1 to 0
useVPuninstallpassword
4) Close the registry and retry the uninstall
REF: Cannot uninstall SAV Corp Ed. 8.1 | Symantec Connect.

Free Antivirus Recovery CD (AVG)

April 6, 2010 by Josh Mitchell  
Filed under Antivirus, Technical Blog

AVG Antivirus and Security Software – AVG Rescue CD.
AVG have released their Virus recovery CD for free.
Check it out, don’t forget to update before scanning.
Some people have said it is slow to scan.. but it is free.
Cheers, josh
Options are ISO (CD) or USB Key.

AntiVirus / AntiMalware Tools

October 13, 2009 by admin  
Filed under Antivirus, Malware

These days if someone gets infected I almost always prone to wipe the hard disk and reload applications. Rootkits have made extremely painful, causing virus’s to appear out of seemingly nowhere after the virus was removed from System folders and the like.
WARNING: USE THESE TOOLS AT YOUR OWN RISK. READ THE DOCUMENTATION, DO YOUR RESEARCH [...]

Free Online Virus Scanners & Cleaning Apps

October 6, 2008 by admin  
Filed under Antivirus, MS WinXP Home, MS WinXP Pro

These web links, will provide a free virus scan from an external system to discover any infections. Very useful, especially if your virus scanner has been inhibited by a new unknown virus
Trend Micro – http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
Kapersky – http://www.kaspersky.com/virusscanner
Symantec – http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/default.asp?langid=ie&venid=sym
Comodo – http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/scan/avscanner.html
F-Prot – http://support.f-secure.com/enu/home/ols.shtml
FREE ANTIVIRUS / MALWARE Cleaners:
Comodo AV – http://antivirus.comodo.com/download.html
Comodo Malware Cleaner – [...]