PC Magazine - USA (2021-12)

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Bringing up the Running Processes list shows you every
process running, with a lot more information than
you’d get just by looking at Task Manager. Drawing
from ESET’s LiveGrid analysis system, it reports the
reputation, number of users, and time of discovery for
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activity, may be more useful to a tech support agent
who’s examining your system remotely. The same is
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Soon after installation, you should download ESET’s
SysRescueLive tool. This tool runs from a bootable DVD
or USB, meaning Windows-based malware is powerless
to resist it. If a NOD32 scan detected and removed
malware, but you still think you’ve got malware on the
system, run a scan from this tool. Malware that requires
this aggressive tool can be seriously persistent and can
interfere with regular antivirus, which is why you want
to download it before you run into any such trouble.


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rescue disk to handle the most persistent malware.
Bitdefender one-ups the bunch, though. Its Rescue
Mode lets you boot to an alternate operating system
without the need to create a disk.


If a NOD32 scan
detected and
removed
malware, but you
still think you’ve
got malware on
the system, run
a scan from
this tool.
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