Good evening,
The removal script will be two years old soon (launched 8/15/2007). To celebrate, I rewrote the entire script package!
Changes:
- Entire script package rewritten and reviewed
- Reduced the number of scripts
- Reporting of improper setup / missing applications
- Standard and max sensitivity modes added
- Reduction of false positives through testing of settings for individual supported applications (tweaked command-line arguments)
- Revamped interface
- Readme updated
- Now under the GNU GPL v3
Be sure to use the new "savrs scan" or "savrs clean" instead of the old commands. Add "max" to the end if you are feeling brave and want to use maximum sensitivity (although your chances of false positives go way up).
Originally posted by: CheeseMonster
- Do you think there would be any way incorporating smitfraudfix into the queue? It's a very useful batch file in my experience and can remove many dns/ browser hijacks and much more where such awesome programs as superanti and malwarebytes have on rare occasion failed.
Thanks again for the prog!
You are welcome and thanks for taking the time to offer feedback. I will examine smitfraudfix for possible future integration if it can be made to behave in a manner consistent with the rest of the script.
Your script is running on my main machine now. It's still running the first portion (a squared) and is already reporting 2 infections my Kaspersky (KIS) has not found (could be false positives, tbd).
A-Squared prior to SAVRS 1.0 RC was set to maximum sensitivity. After reports of false positives, I throttled it back. The false positives have been reduced at a price of scanning all drives with it (there was not a command to scan all drives without doing a max sensitivity scan). However, if you add "max" to the end of the command to start SAVRS, a-squared will scan all visible drives.
Your script appears to automatically scan all visible logical drives.
Some applications do (like Mcafee and Panda), unfortunately Trend only scans the system drive. A-Squared will scan all of the visible drives now only if you add the "max" argument to the startup command for SAVRS.
Sure would like to run your script on the True Crypt hidden drive if you know of a way.
I currently do not know of a way to do this.
Do you think your script would run and be effective if I run WinXP in safe mode with the Windows GUI instead of just the command prompt, and then opened a command prompt to run it?
Yes, it will work fine, but the main advantage of using command-line only is that some infections are easier to clean with fewer things running.