Fix “This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action” in …
Few days ago there was a newly signed up user in forum requesting for help. Initially his computer had some error messages that pops up during Windows startup and he tried using some third party software to fix it. However it ended up making his computer unable to run any exe programs at all including the icons on desktop. He was very sure that he only changed the ProgramFilesDir value from C: to D: in registry. From what I know, this only changes the default location of Program Files where software are installed but no matter what, we all tried to help him undo the changes he made. I showed him how to run registry editor but he wasn’t able to as he kept on getting the error message “ This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action “.
After spending a few hours trying to help and without any success, then I started thinking maybe this problem is caused by another factor which I’ve encountered before in Windows XP. Somehow a virus managed to corrupt the .exe association in registry causing the user unable to run any programs. I used TeamViewer to remotely connect to his computer and tried running this command “ assoc.exe=exefile ” in command prompt which should fix the problem but don’t know why this command has been denied. I checked his user account and he is an administrator. I then tried to use DougKnox ’s EXE registry fix but that failed too because I wasn’t able to import the .reg file since it requires regedit.exe. I also converted the .reg file into .exe file which can imported into registry without using regedit and that too didn’t work.
After 2 days, I am glad that I finally managed to fix the problem.
It turns out to be a corrupted .exe association and the reason those steps I taken didn’t work is because the Windows Vista registry location for exe association is different from XP. Obviously using the XP fix cannot work on Vista!
When you have a corrupted exe association, you definitely cannot use any registry editor to fix it because it is impossible to run it in the first place. So here are a few methods you can try:
1. Run command prompt and type assoc.exe=exefile (If you get access denied error, try step 2)
2. Download this .reg file and run it. Make sure you right click and select Save As. (If you cannot import the .reg file because Windows cannot find the registry editor, then try step 3)
3. Open command prompt and type the following command REG IMPORT vista-7-fixexe.reg . Make sure you’ve already CD to the directory where the .reg file is. (If you have problems getting this to work, try step 4)
4. Download the EXE compiled version of the registry file above and run it. Although it doesn’t make sense to run this exe file since most of the exe files are blocked, but this is the one that fixed the user’s computer. (If this couldn’t fix it, try step 5)
5. Microsoft Fix It has an automated way to fixing the exe association problem. Simply download this MicrosoftFixit50194.msi file and run it.
If done correctly, it should fix the problem instantly and no reboot is required. Now I will always remember that whatever works in XP doesn’t necessarily works on Vista and 7.
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Avira AntiVir Personal Edition Update Hang and Timeout Problem
There has been quite a lot of complaints about Avira recent updating problem that hangs and counts time elapsed endlessly. Check Avira forums and you will see how many people are complaining over it. Honestly I do not use Avira even though I say that Avira is the best free antivirus because I have commercial license for Kaspersky and Norton. If compared between a paid and a free software, I prefer to use paid because I am eligible for prompt support. So I installed Avira on my test computer and researched for a few days on what’s happening to Avira’s update servers. I wasn ‘ t very sure at first but now I am confident to share with you on my findings and also the temporary fix until Avira fix the problem at their side.
One of the main difference between the personal and premium edition is the premium edition gets to update the latest virus definition using Avira’s Fast Premium update server. This is true because the Avira AntiVir personal edition gets the latest virus definition from personal.avira-updates.com and the premium gets it from premium.avira-updates.com. There are only 4 premium servers and as for the personal update servers, there are 24 of them. I am able to download the virus definition at full speed from any of the 4 premium servers but as for the 24 servers that are used for personal edition, I get timeout most of the time on 20 servers and only 4 ipv6 servers are working.
I get to compile a list of Avira update servers by multi pinging Avira’s personal update server personal.avira-update.com. Do take note that the IP address could change if Avira decides to do that.
Personal
80.190.143.227
80.190.143.228
80.190.143.229
80.190.143.230
80.190.143.231
80.190.143.232
80.190.143.233
80.190.143.234
80.190.143.235
80.190.143.236
80.190.143.237
80.190.143.239
62.146.66.178
62.146.66.179
62.146.66.181
62.146.66.182
62.146.66.183
62.146.66.184
62.146.66.189
62.146.66.190
2a01:138:a001:201::21 (works most of the time)
2a01:138:a001:201::22 (works most of the time)
2a01:138:a001:201::23 (works most of the time)
2a01:138:a001:201::24 (works most of the time)
Premium
62.146.87.171
62.146.87.172
80.190.154.74
80.190.154.73
As you can see from the multi ping test, Avira randomly assigns an update server for you to download the updated definition. From what I’ve noticed, most of the time Avira will try to assign one of the 4 of the ipv6 update servers to personal users. Only sometimes you will directly get the ipv4 update server. I believe the reason they are doing this is because all of the 20 ipv4 servers are overloaded. I’ve used DownTester to try to download a 5MB definition file from all 20 servers with a setting of 50 retries if failed and guess what, NONE of the servers allowed me to successfully complete downloading the 5MB file.
It’s really a bad decision to use the ipv6 servers because by default Windows XP don’t have ipv6 installed and configured. Installing IPv6 in XP is easy but you still won’t be able to connect to the ipv6 servers as it doesn’t work right out of the box. Pardon me, I have no experience with configuring ipv6 nor could I get XP to connect the Avira ipv6 update servers. When Avira on XP tries to connect to the ipv6 servers, it hangs for a very long time until it times out and redirects you to one of the 20 ipv4 servers, and again, those are problematic slow servers. So, basically Avira users on Windows XP is pretty much screwed until Avira gets more servers or fix it. If you are using Windows Vista and 7, you shouldn’t have any problems because the operating system already supports ipv6.
If you are using Windows Vista or Seven and wants to manually select which Avira update server to use, then you can use your Windows HOSTS file to map personal.avira-update.com and personal.avira-update.net to any of the IP address. Unfortunately we CANNOT redirect and use the premium servers because the definition files being used are slightly different. When Avira couldn’t find the files that they are looking for, it will automatically redirect you back to any of the free servers.
Here is how to modify your Windows HOSTS file so that the Avira AntiVir Personal Edition can download the updates from working servers.
1. Simultaneously press Win+R on your keyboard and you should see a Run box.
2. Type this in the box system32driversetc and click OK.
3. Open the hosts file with a text editor such as Notepad.
4. Copy the 2 lines below and paste it to the last line at the hosts file. Save the file.
2a01:138:a001:201::21 personal.avira-update.com
2a01:138:a001:201::21 personal.avira-update.net
It should look like the screenshot below.
One of the user from Avira forum suggested that Windows XP users can add this 2 lines to hosts file. I’ve tested it and ended up waiting for more than 20 minutes to download the updates but still stuck with the message “Files are being downloaded” with no progress at all.
::1 personal.avira-update.com
::1 personal.avira-update.net
5. Save the hosts file either by going to File > Save or just simultaneously press Ctrl+S . Now try to update Avira and it should work now.
Just for your knowledge, the HOSTS file can only map host names to IP addresses. If you haven’t noticed, all four ipv6 address are nearly the same except for the last character which is 21, 22, 23 and 24. You can try any of the four servers by changing the hosts file to find which Avira personal update server works best for you. Remember, the IPv6 servers can only work in Vista and 7. It doesn’t work on XP unless you’ve managed to install and configure IPv6 properly. I wonder if this is one of the Avira’s dirty tactic to make everyone pay and upgrade to Premium edition? They better fix it fast or else many people will start switching to Avast! or Microsoft Security Essentials.
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Hacking Firefox to Always Auto Save Password Without Showing Notification Bar
As usual when I was screening through all the new posts in forum to see if there are any spam and also any computer topic that I can help, I saw an interest question asked by Rizzano. He wanted to know if there is anyway to make Firefox auto save password without clicking the Remember button. In Firefox, even if you have the option “Security Remember passwords for sites” checked in Tools > Options,the browser will still display a notification bar at the top that asks “Do you want Firefox to remember the password for “Username” on website.com?” with three buttons “Remember”, “Never for This Site” and “Not Now”.
The first thing that came to my mind was perhaps there is an addon that can do this but I couldn’t find any that can make Firefox auto save password without prompting. After spending nearly two hours researching on how Firefox saves the password, I managed to find a way on how to make Firefox save the login information to the Firefox Saved Passwords manager.
First, I searched some of the important keywords such as “Never for This Site” and “Not Now” on all the files and found that this function is controlled by a few javascript .js files. Then I was more confident in getting this to work since I didn’t have to go through the trouble of downloading the Firefox source code, modify and compile it.
When you submit a form with username and password, it will process the function:
1. _onFormSubmit() in nsLoginManager.js
2. promptToSavePassword in nsLoginManagerPrompter.js
3. _showSaveLoginNotification in nsLoginManagerPrompter.js
4. addLogin in nsLoginManager.js
1. Close Firefox
2. Edit nsLoginManagerPrompter.js with notepad which is normally located in C:Program FilesMozilla Firefoxcomponents
3. Replace the entire line 642 to 711 with the code below:
var pwmgr = this._pwmgr;
pwmgr.addLogin(aLogin);
Now whenever you login to any website, Firefox will auto save the site, username and password to the login manager WITHOUT showing the notification bar. You can access the saved password area by going to Tools > Options > Security and click the Saved Passwords button. There is one possible bug which is even when a user entered the wrong username or password, it will still be saved.
I am calling this a hack instead of customization because it’s not an included feature in Firefox. I had to manually modify one of it’s original core files to make this work. Thinking about this logically, obviously Firefox did not include such feature nor there is an addon for this because they don’t want the world’s favorite browser to turn into a keylogger. Use it with care and think twice before implementing this illegally as it can get you into a lot of trouble!
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Easily Turn Windows 7 Computer Into WiFi Hotspot to Share Wireless Internet Connection
Most of the recent laptops and netbooks already comes with wireless capability allowing you to connect to wifi hotspots. Previously I’ve written a few guides ( XP , Vista , Hotspot ) on how to share the wireless Internet connection without a wireless router. Let’s say you have a direct connection to the Internet via network cable and the computer has a wireless adapter. Since your computer is connected via cable, the wireless adapter will not be in use and it is possible to make the wireless adapter to share the Internet connection that you are getting from the cabled connection. This saves you from spending money in buying a wireless router.
However, the steps are quite long are involves a lot of steps. Moreover there are also many different network configurations and the steps that I’ve written might not work for you. Good news is I found a free software called Connectify which is able to “EASILY” turn your Windows 7 computer into a wireless router with only one click. Trust me, sharing an internet connection using your wireless adapter cannot get any easier than this!
1. Fill up this form to obtain the Connectify download link. The page mentioned that the link will be sent to the e-mail address but
2. Download and install Connectify. (The installer ConnectifyInstaller.exe is only 1.41MB in size)
3. Select the Internet connection you wish to share (My internet connection is coming from Local Area Connection and Connectify automatically selected it)4. Choose a name for your new wireless network (You can leave it as Connectify)
5. Choose a wireless passphrase (You will to enter a wireless password that contains at least 8 characters)
6. Press the Internet Sharing button to turn on your wireless network
Now, from your other devices, you can see your wireless network. Choose to join it, and enter the wireless passphrase to connect.Your wireless hotspot created with Connectify is encrypted with WPA2-Personal (AES) encryption by default and you cannot turn it off. Your security is as strong as the Passphrase that you select.
Although this guide ended up with 6 steps, but in short you only need to download and install Connectify, set the passphrase and click a button. I think I can do that all in less than 5 minutes. Connectify is a real WiFi Access Point running on your computer and it’s not an ad-hoc mode. Any device that can connect to a regular access point, can connect to a Connectify Hotspot, with no special setup or software required. Do note that Connectify is still in beta and some old wifi adapter cannot work. I’ve tried setting up connectify with D-Link DWA-110 and it couldn’t work. But when tested on a built-in Intel wireless adapter, it works perfectly.
Connectify is free and runs only on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 r2, both in either 32 or 64 bits. It is not made for XP or Vista. Most ISP doesn’t allow you to resell your internet connection. However if you are sharing the cost with your neighbor, then I believe it should be fine.Technorati Tags: connectify , wireless , share , internet , hotspot
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Fix Windows Task Manager With Missing Tabs and Menu
Many of you should be familiar with Windows Task Manager. Since Windows 98, the combination of Control+Alt+Delete key is the probably only thing to do when a program hung. You are presented with a “Close Program” window to terminate the application that is not responding or you can just hit the same combination again to soft reboot the computer. In NT based Windows, pressing the hotkey would directly invoke the Task Manager. The Task Manager is a program used to provide information about the processes and programs running on a computer, as well as the general status of the computer. It can also be used to terminate processes and programs, as well as change the processes’ priority.
As useful as it is, there’s a very weird feature built-in to the Windows Task Manager and it makes some users thinks that their Task Manager has an error or corrupted. The normal Windows Task Manager comes with a few tabs such as Applications, Processes, Performance, Networking, Users and it also has a menu bar such as File menu, Options ,View, Windows Shut Down and Help. If you’re not careful, you could end up with a Task Manager WITHOUT the tabs and menu bar.
So far I’ve seen this question being asked 3 times in forum by LunarWolf, yexist and gwa-53 reporting the same problem and I thought I should write an article to inform everyone that the Task Manager is not corrupted or caused by virus when you see such behavior.
Normally when you press the Alt key it should highlight/select the File menu which shows the menu bar. An example is the latest Windows Live Messenger 2009 which by default the menu bar is not shown and you can make the menu bar appear by pressing the Alt key. However, this won’t work in Windows Task Manager when the menu bar and tabs are missing.
To fix this problem, all you need to do is to double click at the edge of the Task Manager and the menubar with tabs will re-appear.
Yeap this is a really weird feature of the Task manager and I bet many users don’t even know about this. Not sure why Microsoft implemented this because I could never find a chance or any reason to use the compact version of Task Manager.
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Monitor Internet Bandwidth Usage with iTraffic Monitor
Some of you might be using an Internet plan from your ISP which has limited bandwidth. As far as I know, ALL of the wireless broadband in Malaysia allows unlimited usage BUT there is a fair usage threshold where once you go over the limit, your connection speed will be throttled to a very slow dial-up speed. I have a Celcom wireless broadband subscription and they offer two types of plan which is 384Kbps or 3.6Mbps. Both package allows you to download stuff at maximum speed but once you reached 5GB limit PER month, then you’re screwed with a really slow speed. Honestly it doesn’t make any sense to subscribe a 3.6Mbps download speed when you can only use 5GB of the bandwidth per month. The worst part is even the uploading bandwidth is counted to the usage.
At least they now tell us in advanced that there is a fair usage policy because last time they never expose this information publicly and you can only find it in their really long list of terms and conditions page which no one really reads. When you find out that there is a fair usage policy and file a complaint, they blame you for not reading the terms before signing up. For those that are subscribed to an Internet connection package which has limited bandwidth usage, it is important that you keep track of your bandwidth usage. Here’s a free internet traffic monitoring software that works.
iTraffic Monitor is a network monitor and reporting tool. It provides real time graph of network traffic. Detailed stats provide daily/weekly/monthly/yearly stats. Stop watch, Session stats.
Monitor and review your Internet or network bandwidth usage with ease
How fast your internet connection? We can graph it for your review
How much data do you transfer? We show you a real-time graph or numerical display, as well as daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly reports
Requires minimal desktop space and system resources
This is how iTraffic report looks like. It’s easy to read and nothing too fancy or complicated.
iTraffic Monitor is relatively new as this is their first version released on 4/22/2009. A few small bugs here and there such as copying the report to clipboard generates an access violation error but it’s no big deal and hopefully they’ll fix it in their next release. What I like about iTraffic Monitor is it can filter out local network traffic or traffic between specific IP addresses. This is very important for people connected to the internet via a local area network (LAN). Very few network monitors can do this and the ones that do usually is a shareware that cost money.
This software is free and takes less than 2MB memory while monitoring your bandwidth usage. Claims to work on all Windows.
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SMBv2 Nuke Crashes Windows Vista, 7 and Server 2008 with BlueScreen of Death
About 15 years ago during Windows 95 era, there were a lot of “winnukes” which can cause Windows to blue screen. Microsoft did release patches to fix those bugs but during that time Internet was still very new and not many people know that there are updates to fix those problems. There was no Windows Update to scan what your system needed to update. Then came Windows 98 and most of the winnukes were patched. However I still remembered that a team called X-Coders has came up with IGMP nukes which can also crashes Windows 98.
Finally XP came and it is considered to be one of the most stable Windows that Microsoft ever released! As stable as it is, hackers still able to find flaw in their system. That time there was another nuker called SMBDie which crashes Windows XP computers by sending a specially crafted SMB request.
It definitely worked because I was pretty much “abusing” it with my childish teenager mindset. I didn’t crash just anyone but only to a particular guy who was downloading a lot with Limewire and hogging the Internet connection until none of the housemates can use the Internet. If I am not wrong, that bug was patched in SP1.
Just when we thought the latest Windows Vista and 7 is safe, Laurent Gaffié discovered an exploit that can cause a remote computer to get a bluescreen of death and released a proof of concept on 9th September. I only got to know about it few days ago because on the day the exploit was released, I was busy packing my bags and getting ready for my honeymoon.
I found 2 compiled version of the exploit and this is how it looks like. This one has an interface for you to enter the victim’s IP address and clicking the OK button will send a specially crafted packet to the remote computer.
The second one is command line application. Just enter the IP address after the program to launch the attack.
I’ve tried to attack my own computer running Windows Vista SP1 and the computer shows a blue screen and auto rebooted. When Windows is booted up, I got a notification window that says “Window has recovered from an unexpected shutdown” with the problem event name “BlueScreen”.
The good news is Windows Firewall is able to block this attack. Thank God that all Windows Firewall is turned on by default or else a lot of people will get nuked by another wave of SMBDie. Looks like Windows Firewall is not so useless after all… Windows XP and 2000 are NOT affected as they don’t have the SMB2.0 driver. You can also update your Windows to be patched from this exploit. If you take a look at this video , Immunity Inc has made a working exploit of SMBv2 that can run commands on the remote system!
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Uninstall Programs Packaged with Windows Installer in Safe Mode
Whenever you install a software in Windows, most of the time it will come with an uninstaller that allows you to safely remove the program from your computer. This is because software nowadays are very complex and requires registering of OCX or DLL files, registry changes, dropping of files in appropriate places and etc. There are many types of installers and one of the popular one is Windows Installer and Kaspersky uses it to pack their software for users to install and uninstall.
If you’ve installed a software and suddenly Windows has stopped working, the logical way is to boot Windows in Safe Mode and then try to uninstall. Safe mode is a troubleshooting option for Windows that starts your computer in a limited state. Only the basic files and drivers necessary to run Windows are started. Unfortunately by default you can’t uninstall a software that is packaged with Windows Installer in Safe Mode. If you try to uninstall, you will get the error “ The Windows Installer service is not accessible in Safe Mode. Please try again when your computer is not in Safe Mode or you acn use System Restore to return your machine to a previous good state. ”
There is a Windows Installer (msiserver) service in Services and if you attempt to manually start it in Safe Mode, you should get an error that says “ Windows could not start the Windows Installer service on Local Computer. Error 1084: This service cannot be started in Safe Mode. ”
To start the Windows Installer service in Safe Mode so that you can uninstall programs, all you need to do is add a new MSIServer registry key. Simply follow the step-by-step instructions below:
1. Hit Win+R, type regedit and click OK.
2. Navigate to the following location in registry editor:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlSafeBootMinimal
3. Right click at Minimal and select New > Key and name it as MSIServer
4. The (Default) data for MSIServer should show (value not set). Double click on (Default) and type Service in the value data. Close the Registry Editor.
5. Again hit Win+R, type services.msc and click OK.
6. Look for Windows Installer on the list, double click on it and click Start.
You can now uninstall programs that is packed using Windows Installer in Safe Mode. Alternatively, you can also do all the steps above by typing two command lines below in command prompt or at the Run window.
REG ADD “HKLMSYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlSafeBootMinimalMSIServer” /VE /T REG_SZ /F /D “Service”
net start msiserver
As you can see the first command line is pretty long which I don’t think many people are willing to memorize it. Remember, editing the Windows registry is a risky business and you can end up with more problems rather than fixing it if you do it wrongly. Hence, I’d personally prefer to learn how to do it the long way.
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Remove Fake Antivirus and Fake Antispyware Automatically
Fake or rogue antivirus has been around for a long time and they are still not giving up trying to cheat computer users. Normally this is how you will “suddenly” have a rogue antivirus or antispyware installed without you even knowing it. You visit a website and you get a warning message that is very convincing and looks like its coming from Windows telling you that you have a virus/spyware. You click on a button and it will auto install. Here comes the worst part, it then downloads viruses to your computer and the rogue antivirus will find the virus. If you want to clean the virus using the fake antivirus which you just downloaded, you’ll have to purchase the software license.
This is ridiculous isn’t it? Your computer is actually free from virus but after being tricked into installing a fake antivirus, your computer now has virus and very likely you’ll be purchasing a license for a fake antivirus. Some of the rogue antivirus are very hard to remove or uninstall. Fortunately we can automate the whole uninstallation process with this simple small portable tool called Remove Fake Antivirus .
It is very easy to use Remove Fake Antivirus. All you need to do is run the program and click the Start button. Currently Remove Fake Antivirus v1.32 is able to remove 27 types of fake antivirus and antimalware.
1. Cyber Security
2. Alpha Antivirus
3. Braviax
4. Windows Police Pro
5. Antivirus Pro 2010
6. PC Antispyware 2010
7. FraudTool.MalwareProtector.d
8. Winshield2009.com
9. Green AV
10. Windows Protection Suite
11. Total Security 2009
12. Windows System Suite
13. Antivirus BEST
14. System Security
15. Personal Antivirus
16. System Security 2009
17. Malware Doctor
18. Antivirus System Pro
19. WinPC Defender
20. Anti-Virus-1
21. Spyware Guard 2008
22. System Guard 2009
23. Antivirus 2009
24. Antivirus 2010
25. Antivirus Pro 2009
26. Antivirus 360
27. MS Antispyware 2009
For testing purposes, I’ve installed Antivirus Pro 2010 on my computer. Then it reports that there are 33 useless and unwanted files on my computer. 21 are critical privacy compromising content, 9 contains medium privacy threats and 3 are junk. At first I thought they were real virus but when I randomly uploaded 3 files to VirusTotal to have it scanned with 41 different antivirus, surprisingly no threats were detected! To remove Antivirus Pro 2010, I ran RemoveFakeAntivirus.exe, waited for a few seconds and after a reboot, Antivirus Pro 2010 has been removed.
Although Antivirus Pro 2010 gave fake reports, but I am pretty sure that there are some fake antivirus that will drop in real trojan/virus/worm on your computer. Be sure to scan your computer with a reputable antivirus such as Kaspersky, Norton, Avira or BitDefender after removing the rogue antivirus with Remove Fake Antivirus. I personally believe the list of supported rogue AVs will most likely continue to grow if Olzen manage to get more samples of the fake antiviruses. Olzen, the author of Remove Fake Antivirus is 26 years old and he’s from Malaysia too!
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FREE 1 Year IObit Security 360 PRO License Code Valid for EVERYONE
Most of us should have heard about IObit, the company that develops useful Windows software such as Advanced SystemCare, SmartDefrag and Game Booster. I personally also like IObit products because they are develop quality software. Recently they’ve released one of their new product called IObit Security 360 that is used to scan and remove various malware such as spyware, adware, trojans, keyloggers, bots, worms and hijackers.
There are 2 editions available for it which is the FREE and PRO version. PRO version normally cost $29.95 for a year’s subscription and it contains extra features that gives an automated protection on your computer. The free version doesn’t protect your computer real time against malware but you can use it to run manual scans to find if your computer has any malwares. For a limited time only, IObit is giving out free licenses for Security 360 PRO valid for a year and this offer expires on Nov 11, 2009. Hugo Dong from IObit has kindly given me the permission to use the promotional link, so go ahead and get your free license! IObit are so confident that their product is the strongest free anti-malware software that they even ask IT professionals and amateur home users to put Security 360 to the test and they will in return put the testers in the draw to win money!
To get your free IObit Security 306 PRO license code, all you need to do is go to this page http://db.iobit.com/license-free/win7-special-offer.php , enter your email and click the Get Free License button. You should immediately get an email from IObit Support that contains the 20 random character license code. Then download the latest version of IObit Security 360 installer is360setup.exe and install. Run IObit Security 360 and click the button “Upgrade”, which is on the right side of the product name. You will see a pop up box. Enter the following license code and click “Activate” to upgrade.
IObit Security 360 PRO interface is really simple without too many confusing options. I do not have a big archive of spyware to test the effectiveness of IObit Security 360 but I’ve did a pretty simple comparison. This test is not for the money or draw but for my own knowledge.
IObit Security 360 PRO
Smart Scan took 2 minutes 13 seconds to scan 59226 objects.
Full Scan took 5 minutes 17 seconds to scan 66762 objects.
Cannot detect private trojan via context menu manual scan.
Cannot detect private trojan when I run it even with DOG, automatic and advanced protection turned on, and protection level set as high.
When computer is infected with trojan, I ran a full scan and nothing was found.
Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware
Quick Scan tool 2 minutes 10 seconds to scan 81520 objects.
Full Scan took 9 minutes 25 seconds to scan 135338 objects.
Cannot detect private trojan via context menu manual scan.
Cannot detect private trojan when I run it even with Protection Module turned on.
When computer is infected with trojan, I ran a full scan and it managed to find 2 suspicious registry entries that was created by the trojan. Deleting the registry disables the trojan from starting up.
SUPERAntiSpyware
Quick Scan took 8 minutes 16 seconds to scan 26466 objects.
Complete Scan took 8 minutes 32 seconds to scan 32324 objects.
Cannot detect private trojan via context menu manual scan.
Cannot detect private trojan when I run it even with Real-Time Protection turned on.
When computer is infected with trojan, I ran a full scan and nothing was found.
I wouldn’t judge that all anti-malwares above are bad just by one failed detection but I can see that IObit Security 360 scans pretty fast. There are a lot of other tests results you can refer to in this forum . Do take note that IObit Security 360 PRO is an antimalware and not a replacement for your antivirus. You can actually run this antimalware software together with your antivirus for a more complete protection.
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