Comments on: Spring clean your PC in 5 simple steps and prevent malware https://www.emsisoft.com/en/blog/26004/spring-clean-your-pc-in-5-simple-steps-and-prevent-malware/ Straight-talking security advice from the Malware Experts Fri, 18 Nov 2022 12:23:34 +0000 hourly 1 By: LodeHere https://www.emsisoft.com/en/blog/26004/spring-clean-your-pc-in-5-simple-steps-and-prevent-malware/#comment-786997 Fri, 16 Jun 2017 16:02:00 +0000 http://blog.emsisoft.com/?p=26004#comment-786997 In reply to Peter.

Speaking of working for our computer instead of letting it work for us… but I guess playing with your machine can be made into a hobby, even when it does not improve anything on your machine.

What is easier than -after restoring one’s pc using a system backup- to let some by now outdated software update itself? It takes only a few clicks to let it do that, and updating doesn’t take long either.

I always save a full system backup after Windows updates. So about once a month. If later I would need to restore my pc using that backup, all software needing it can at most need new updates that have come out over that one month period. The whole operation including restoring my pc with the backup and letting what needs it update itself takes at most about half an hour.

Besides, whatever I really want to keep I copy on another external drive and a memory stick. So even in case my laptop would have to be replaced because of old age and faltering that can’t be repaired, or would not be worth it, I still have all I would like to install on my new machine, so I don’t need to download it all again, and at least still have access to all the rest I want to have acces to.

]]> By: Drod PC-Geek https://www.emsisoft.com/en/blog/26004/spring-clean-your-pc-in-5-simple-steps-and-prevent-malware/#comment-784810 Fri, 31 Mar 2017 23:49:00 +0000 http://blog.emsisoft.com/?p=26004#comment-784810 Malware Blocker, has been using Emsisoft anti-malware for second opinion I think.

]]> By: Peter https://www.emsisoft.com/en/blog/26004/spring-clean-your-pc-in-5-simple-steps-and-prevent-malware/#comment-784207 Thu, 16 Feb 2017 15:09:00 +0000 http://blog.emsisoft.com/?p=26004#comment-784207 I use Windows 8.1 64 bit imbedded with the HP x360. convertible. I7, 16MB ram
I learned how to create a system Image and just finished running the most recent one which included all the Windows Updates available
to February 9, 2017.
Before I made that image, I uninstalled all software that needs to update daily.
That Means using Revo Pro Uninstaller to uninstall Emsisoft Internet Security and any other software.

If you make an image, and run it 20 days later, and you didn’t remove your daily updated software, that software will complain
thinking it is now 20 days old without an update. Exactly. Don’t go there.
When you make a system image, you know positively it’s clean,
You ran D.I.S.M.
dism /online /cleanup-image /checkhealth CMD prompt with administrator privilege paste that in.
Your first and your last scan was by E.I.S. updated, mine every 45 minutes. My lap top is always internet connected 7/24 Static IP
You ran your favorite disk defragmenter three or four times,at the end, and then you made your image on an external storage drive,
running disk management so that you could partition one private section of that drive for the image.
File history is where you find “create System Image” it will inform you how many GB you need in advance.
Funny thing about my images in the past. They all refuse to be read after a couple of months.
I have yet to find out what is going on there, so as for me, I make a new one after all the latest windows updates are installed.
Windows Update Problems.
You want to have your Windows Update Trouble shooter, and run that before you attempt to run Windows update.
Then , maybe, I sometimes will run Window update Diagnostic. Same thing but between them both one will fix one error or two
the other doesn’t. Go Figure that. Also run D.I.S.M before you run your windows update.
You have done all this in advance, and now windows update keeps searching and searching and searching.
close it out and shut down your computer for at least 12 hours.
It’s a perfect reset after it doesn’t work, but you ran all the tools first.
You do not need to reboot after you run the tools, and if windows update still will not connect to the servers,
shut down your computer and walk away for a day.
Come back after a nice rest away from the world online, and run windows update, and just let it run.
It will get to where you want it to be.

]]> By: Stephen J. Foss https://www.emsisoft.com/en/blog/26004/spring-clean-your-pc-in-5-simple-steps-and-prevent-malware/#comment-784200 Wed, 15 Feb 2017 21:56:00 +0000 http://blog.emsisoft.com/?p=26004#comment-784200 Responding to Glenn Casey: Yes, I can see a Ccleaner work-a-like, but from the main screen of the Emsisoft Anti-Malware program I simple click either: Malware scan -or- Quick Scan. Then, if I’m heating my coffee or something I can do a Custom scan on drive C:, the system drive. It’s easy, quick, and everything is in one place. For me, I wouldn’t need another short & sweet (quick) program (could call it Aasquared or something), but there’s no need. Steve F.

]]> By: Glenn Casey https://www.emsisoft.com/en/blog/26004/spring-clean-your-pc-in-5-simple-steps-and-prevent-malware/#comment-784154 Fri, 10 Feb 2017 19:47:00 +0000 http://blog.emsisoft.com/?p=26004#comment-784154 Thank you Emsisoft for your valuable advertize-I MEAN, advice on cleaning up my P.C..even though I knew this advice already, and it’s absolutely useless. Most all serious P.C. users know this, and your just “plugging” your security software, more than anything else.But thank you anyway. Why not create your own “Emsisoft Utility c cleaner” of you own? maybe with an uninstaller, and software updater or something? that would be awesome, an Emsisoft version utility tool! -Just a thought, Glenn Casey.

]]> By: Holger Keller https://www.emsisoft.com/en/blog/26004/spring-clean-your-pc-in-5-simple-steps-and-prevent-malware/#comment-784147 Fri, 10 Feb 2017 12:41:00 +0000 http://blog.emsisoft.com/?p=26004#comment-784147 In reply to Rick Gaspard.

No problem Rick, we’re glad you found it useful.

]]> By: Rick Gaspard https://www.emsisoft.com/en/blog/26004/spring-clean-your-pc-in-5-simple-steps-and-prevent-malware/#comment-784140 Thu, 09 Feb 2017 19:03:00 +0000 http://blog.emsisoft.com/?p=26004#comment-784140 Thanks

]]> By: LodeHere https://www.emsisoft.com/en/blog/26004/spring-clean-your-pc-in-5-simple-steps-and-prevent-malware/#comment-784128 Wed, 08 Feb 2017 21:28:00 +0000 http://blog.emsisoft.com/?p=26004#comment-784128 And don’t forget to do a anti-malware scan before making a backup. You don’t want to backup malware…. : D

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