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Old 17 August 2008, 09:38 PM
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Starting to see more and more anti trojan / rootkit detection software programmes being available lately, just wonder if these particular programmes off any real advantage off say your normal everyday anti virus software ?? for instance I personally use Avira premium and also superantispyware professional is this enough or would a dedicated anti trojan programme be off any benefit ??

any free anti trojan software programme available on the market just now ??
Old 18 August 2008, 02:43 PM
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lavasoft and S&D.
Old 18 August 2008, 04:15 PM
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lavasoft and S&D.
Bit confused mate ??!! are you saying these are two free software programmes that will detect things my everyday av software will not ??
Old 18 August 2008, 04:34 PM
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A decent antivirus should catch trojans as well. I suspect there are standalone programs appearing because people still insist on using free things like AVG which are notorious for missing things...
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in the good old days, antivirus is only for catching viruses. these days some sort of spyware/trojan/malware are built into the antivirus.

so, no harm in using another 3rd party spyware software such as adaware 2008 (from lavasoft) or search & destroy (from safer-networking.org). or even use microsoft defender. dont know how good it is but it is free.
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Okay cheers as I say using Avira and superantispyware which are both very respected programmes so think I should be pretty well covered.
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