Overall Security Tips
Remember - Just because your anti-virus or malware scanner says you:
- "Are infected" does not make it true, if it is a poor scanner
- "Are not infected" does not mean you are not, again ... if its a poor scanner
Free Antivirus Scanners
Kaspersky Security Cloud
Bit Defender FreeMalware and Rootkit Scanners
This does not count all the smaller, specialty scanners, by the way
Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Zemana AntiMalware
Hitman Pro
Norton Power Eraser *Emsisoft use to have a more basic version of their paid offering, for free but I am having issues finding that now. STILL THAT DOESN'T MATTER.... along with Hitman Pro and Zemana, I have seen the same people 100% trust Emsisoft for a second opinion scanner too.
* Just note that I have seen people say this can not run if you have Kasperksy installed because it may conflict with the driver or some service that Kaspersky runs.
Specific Scanners/Misc Tools
(not always needed, but I for instance have updated copies of all of these "just in case"). These can be used to help clean, badly infected computers:
ComboFix
I have seen ComboFix, first-hand help computers that were badly infected; new users, should only use this if reformatting SEEMS like the only hope, after MalwareBytes "failed'. Note: At that time I had no idea about RKill (listed below) so instead of running Combofix, running RKill THEN Malwarebytes, may have worked as well
RKill2020 note: I am not sure how useful this is in Windows 10, or if this is even updated anymore
- Listed on many BleepingComputers tutorials as what to use before Malwarebytes on pesky infections that contain rootkits that try to disable Malwarebytes from cleaning your computer
TDSSKiller Kaspersky's offering to remove TDSS infections
Malwarebyte's AdwCleaner