Silviron
Flashlight Enthusiast
I just ran across this (apparently) new Microsoft service website.
WINDOWS LIVE SAFETY CENTER
My Laptop has been acting kind of hinkey for a week, so I did some Windows updates and deleted some programs that I don't use. In the process of doing the Windows Updates I found a link to the above site. I think it has only been around about a week, because the Forum there has only a few entries, the oldest dated Jan 23.
Anyway, It will do a virus scan, get rid of, or at least find hidden temporary files, do a firewall port scan, help you tune up your PC etc.
The virus scan found eight viruses files on my computer, seven that Norton AV never found and one in my Norton Quarantine folder that I didn't know about. It managed to clean four of them automatically; I had to manually delete the other four. But at least they are gone, no thanks to Norton, (even though the viruses Safety Live found have been in my Norton definitions for a couple of years, and survived many full system scans; Two of infected files have been there for at least a year. )..
It also found 70 MB of hidden temporary files, deleted half of them automatically and I had to manually delete the other half.
Site is in BETA, but seems to work really well.
Took about an hour and a half for a full system scan on my 20 or so Gigs of files (about 160,000 files).
I don't know if connection speed matters much to the scan time; I'm on 3Mbit cable broadband.
Check it out if you have any doubts about the condition of your Windows Machine if you are running:
Windows XP Home Edition, Windows XP Professional, Windows 2000 Professional, Windows Server 2003, or Windows 2000 Server.
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher, or MSN® 9.0.
It is in BETA though, so I can't promise it will work for you as well as it seems to have worked for me!
Tomorrow or the next day I'm going to run my photo editing desktop computer through there... It is not normally connected and I made a conscious choice not to slow it down with an AV program and I uninstalled Zone Alarm because that was causing a slowdown too ...... But lately it has been slowing down too, so this is a good way to see what's up with it free and without installing RAM/ CPU hogs.
Too bad it doesn't work on Pocket PCs too. Mine is acting pretty suspicious too. Guess I'll have to do a 'purge' on it and reload everything.
WINDOWS LIVE SAFETY CENTER
My Laptop has been acting kind of hinkey for a week, so I did some Windows updates and deleted some programs that I don't use. In the process of doing the Windows Updates I found a link to the above site. I think it has only been around about a week, because the Forum there has only a few entries, the oldest dated Jan 23.
Anyway, It will do a virus scan, get rid of, or at least find hidden temporary files, do a firewall port scan, help you tune up your PC etc.
The virus scan found eight viruses files on my computer, seven that Norton AV never found and one in my Norton Quarantine folder that I didn't know about. It managed to clean four of them automatically; I had to manually delete the other four. But at least they are gone, no thanks to Norton, (even though the viruses Safety Live found have been in my Norton definitions for a couple of years, and survived many full system scans; Two of infected files have been there for at least a year. )..
It also found 70 MB of hidden temporary files, deleted half of them automatically and I had to manually delete the other half.
Site is in BETA, but seems to work really well.
Took about an hour and a half for a full system scan on my 20 or so Gigs of files (about 160,000 files).
I don't know if connection speed matters much to the scan time; I'm on 3Mbit cable broadband.
Check it out if you have any doubts about the condition of your Windows Machine if you are running:
Windows XP Home Edition, Windows XP Professional, Windows 2000 Professional, Windows Server 2003, or Windows 2000 Server.
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher, or MSN® 9.0.
It is in BETA though, so I can't promise it will work for you as well as it seems to have worked for me!
Tomorrow or the next day I'm going to run my photo editing desktop computer through there... It is not normally connected and I made a conscious choice not to slow it down with an AV program and I uninstalled Zone Alarm because that was causing a slowdown too ...... But lately it has been slowing down too, so this is a good way to see what's up with it free and without installing RAM/ CPU hogs.
Too bad it doesn't work on Pocket PCs too. Mine is acting pretty suspicious too. Guess I'll have to do a 'purge' on it and reload everything.
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