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cmartineau,<br />
You might want to hold off on closing out question to give others a chance for some input.<br />
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Malwarebytes is (IMO) the best generic malware fighter available, but you need to stop the &quot;rogue processes&quot; for it to do its job.<br />
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You also need to do a clean download of the setup file - renaming it before it touches the infected computer.<br />
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I wrote the EE Articles below to provide detailed instructions for the proper use.<br />
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<a href="https://www.experts-exchange.com/A_5124.html" rel="ugc">https://www.experts-exchange.com/A_5124.html</a>&nbsp;(Stop-the-Bleeding-First-A<wbr />id-for-Mal<wbr />ware)<br />
<a href="https://www.experts-exchange.com/A_4922.html" rel="ugc">https://www.experts-exchange.com/A_4922.html</a>&nbsp;(Rogue-Killer-What-a-great<wbr />-name)
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cmartineau,
You might want to hold off on closing out question to give others a chance for some input.

Malwarebytes is (IMO) the best generic malware fighter available, but you need to stop the "rogue processes" for it to do its job.

You also need to do a clean download of the setup file - renaming it before it touches the infected computer.

I wrote the EE Articles below to provide detailed instructions for the proper use.

https://www.experts-exchange.com/A_5124.html [https://www.experts-exchange.com/A_5124.html] (Stop-the-Bleeding-First-Aid-for-Malware)
https://www.experts-exchange.com/A_4922.html [https://www.experts-exchange.com/A_4922.html] (Rogue-Killer-What-a-great-name)

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Ok will do, thank you for your input I will check out the articles.
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Ok will do, thank you for your input I will check out the articles.

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I have an infected computer and I need to run an anti-virus scanner on the machine to clean it out. I have been using MalwareBytes for years now and I am wondering if this program is still good or if someone knows a of a better program to run scans with. 
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I have an infected computer and I need to run an anti-virus scanner on the machine to clean it out. I have been using MalwareBytes for years now and I am wondering if this program is still good or if someone knows a of a better program to run scans with. 

Need to remove virus from computer

Anti-virus software was originally developed to detect and remove computer viruses. However, with the proliferation of other kinds of malware, antivirus software started to provide protection from other computer threats. In particular, modern antivirus software can protect from malicious browser helper objects (BHOs), browser hijackers, ransomware, keyloggers, backdoors, rootkits, trojan horses, worms, malicious layered service providers (LSPs), dialers, fraud tools, adware and spyware. Some products also include protection from other computer threats, such as infected and malicious URLs, spam, scam and phishing attacks, online identity theft (privacy), online banking attacks, social engineering techniques, Advanced Persistent Threat (APT), botnets and DDoS attacks.

Anti-Virus Apps

Spyware is software that aims to gather information about a person or organization without their knowledge and that may send such information to another entity without the consumer's consent, or that asserts control over a computer without the consumer's knowledge; it has also come to include programs that engage in various kinds of electronic fraud. Anti-spyware is software that removes or blocks that software; some common vendors include Malwarebytes, McAfee, Spybot-Search and Destroy, Ad-Aware and BitDefender.

Anti-Spyware

Various techniques are used to prevent email spam (unsolicited bulk email). No technique is a complete solution to the spam problem, and each has trade-offs between incorrectly rejecting legitimate email (false positives) vs. not rejecting all spam (false negatives) - and the associated costs in time and effort. Anti-spam techniques can be broken into four broad categories: those that require actions by individuals, those that can be automated by email administrators, those that can be automated by email senders and those employed by researchers and law enforcement officials.