I’ve been using BOClean along with the AV and Firewall for a while now-never encountered too many problems. However, recently, while browsing, the MalwareAlarm (info on that here.) site attacked me. Within a few seconds, BOClean had encountered an error and shutdown… I was surprised… Almost immediately, I went to go start BOClean up again, but encountered an error: BOCLEAN DATABASE IS CORRUPTED
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At first when I ran the updater, errors popped up saying something about administrator, etc, etc…
So I terminated the BOClean process, ran AdAware (since there’s no Comodo AntiSpyware :P) and ran the updater again. This time it worked, and now I can run BOClean again. The only reason I’m posting this is because I fixed the problem while I was posting for help-and perhaps it can help you shape the program better
And if there’s any thing I should do to further clean my system, let me know!
Hi Posmo,
Welcome to the Comodo BOClean forum.
Can you give us a little more information?
Your OS and any other active security applications would be a good start.
Thank you!
Thanks
Here’s a little summary of my computer (compiled by Everest)
Firewall
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Software Description Software Version Status
Comodo Firewall 2.4.0.58 ?
Windows Firewall 5.1.2600.2180 Disabled
Anti-Spyware
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Software Description Software Version
Ad-Aware SE Personal 6.2.0.236
Spybot - Search & Destroy 1.5.1.15
Microsoft Windows Defender 1.1.1593.0
AVG Anti-Spyware 7.5.1.43
Computer:
Computer Type ACPI Multiprocessor PC
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition
OS Service Pack Service Pack 2
Internet Explorer 7.0.5730.11 (IE 7.0)
DirectX 4.09.00.0904 (DirectX 9.0c)
Computer Name ---
User Name ---
SMTP E-mail Address ---
Logon Domain JESSE
Date / Time 2007-10-09 / 15:04
Motherboard:
CPU Type DualCore Intel Core 2 Duo E6300, 1866 MHz (7 x 267)
Motherboard Name Dell XPS 710 (3 PCI, 1 PCI-E x1, 1 PCI-E x8, 2 PCI-E x16, 4 DDR2 DIMM, Audio, Gigabit LAN, IEEE-1394)
Motherboard Chipset nVIDIA nForce 590 SLI Intel Edition
System Memory 2048 MB (DDR2-667 DDR2 SDRAM)
BIOS Type Phoenix (12/07/06)
Communication Port Communications Port (COM1)
Display:
Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS (256 MB)
3D Accelerator nVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS
Monitor Dell 1900FP (Digital) [19" LCD] (9J3672CDALP2)
Multimedia:
Audio Adapter Creative CA20K1 X-Fi Xtreme Fidelity Audio Processor
Storage:
IDE Controller Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller
Storage Controller NVIDIA nForce 590/570/550 Serial ATA Controller
Storage Controller NVIDIA nForce 590/570/550 Serial ATA Controller
Storage Controller NVIDIA nForce 590/570/550 Serial ATA Controller
Storage Controller VAXSCSI Controller
Disk Drive SAMSUNG SP2504C (250 GB, 7200 RPM, SATA-II)
Disk Drive TEAC USB HS-CF Card USB Device
Disk Drive TEAC USB HS-MS Card USB Device
Disk Drive TEAC USB HS-SD Card USB Device
Disk Drive TEAC USB HS-xD/SM USB Device
Optical Drive SC0613P ZOQ126Q SCSI CdRom Device
Optical Drive TSSTcorp DVD+-RW TS-H653A (DVD+R9:8x, DVD-R9:8x, DVD+RW:18x/8x, DVD-RW:18x/6x, DVD-RAM:12x, DVD-ROM:16x, CD:48x/32x/48x DVD+RW/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM)
SMART Hard Disks Status OK
Partitions:
C: (NTFS) 233609 MB (121780 MB free)
Total Size 228.1 GB (118.9 GB free)
Input:
Keyboard HID Keyboard Device
Mouse HID-compliant mouse
There’s something very weird about MalwareAlarm, because I’m getting strange MalwareAlarm-branded popups while running OS X and Firefox, and I’ve seen this on two different Macs so far. Browsing to this page on Salon: I got one of the popups, and I really doubt one of their advertisers initiated it. Did they somehow port the thing to OS X?
Yes it does. If you want a more updated immunization protection i would go with spybot search and destory: 1.5’s immunization… Its vastly improved from 1.4
