McAfee Virus Scan won't detect malware?

Question

Okay, so my laptop is badly infected with malware, which I'm positively sure about. For some reason, there's this McAfee Virus Scan thingy that I don;t even remember having. So I botted the laptop in safe mode, and used it to run a virus scan. It said it didn't detect anything!

Please help.

Answer 1

Restart your PC in safe mode with networking

http://www.pchell.com/support/safemode.s...

Download, install and run a full scan with Malwarebytes

http://www.malwarebytes.org

Run a full scan with Micro Trend House Call

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

Answer 2

It's probably because McAfee is out-of-date. Try updating it or if you can't get Ad-aware 2008:

http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-2008/30...

This is free and very well known for it's anti-malware (but only for spyware only)...

For virus scan, get Avast:

http://www.download.com/Avast-Home-Editi...

Good luck and bye bye :)

Oh, by the way, Super antispyware is spyware that pretends to be antispyware...don't install it.

Answer 3

Hello, i had the same problem .  I had like 89 viruses and spyware on my pc and i used nod32 for antivirus and SUPERantispyware for antispyware.

Those are really helpful

Answer 4

download malware alarm, its not free but it works like a charm