Introduction
This is one of my favourite utilities used for detecting and automatically cleaning known malware from your Windows computer.
This free utility is used to effectively, quickly and easily remove known malware from your Windows PC.
Before using this utility you should follow the Virus & Spyware Guide on this site: Virus & Spyware Guide – Part 1 and Virus & Spyware Guide – Part 2
This download is provided free and without any guarantee that it will solve your problems. You may however use it as you wish and distribute it freely to your friends and colleagues if it’s of some use.
If however it is useful and does solve your problem, it would be nice if you would link back to this site, leave a comment, follow us on twitter or just say Hi.
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wondering says
I have used combofix personally with great success. I was amazed at what it could do while McAfee sat powerless in the system tray. At that point I could not even boot into safe mode…
However, I have reservations about the source and ultimate purpose of the software. Subs is all but anonymous. How do we know that it is not a trojan itself. What high-trafficked sites can it be downloaded from? Where is the peer review?
I mean no offense to the author who I owe a debt of gratitude to.
Rosco says
Hi…eh Mr. Wondering…
Thanks for your comments on the subject of Combofix.
I admire someone who raises the tough questions. All perfectly valid and understandable. However, one could also ask questions such as:
1) How is it that one guy called sUBs can create a free tool that is capable of removing viruses that no mainstream anti-virus can remove?
2) Are the mainstream anti-virus manufacturers the ones creating the viruses and holding back on removing them all in the interest of selling more anti-virus subscriptions?
I have always found it hard to believe that muli-million dollar companies are incapable of creating such tools as Combofix and that there has been a steady stream of viruses created every week just to keep the anti-virus subscriptions ticking over and keep the consumer in fear of being attacked.
This is one of the great debates and I feel shall continue to be.
To quickly try to answer some of your questions with my own opinions –
1) I believe this tool is created by bleepingcomputer.com considering the disclaimer on the tool mentions this site. See this https://img.bleepingcomputer.com/combofix/en/disclaimer.jpg
2) High trafficked sites – bleepingcomputer.com
3) Peer review: google combofix review and you should find plenty of stuff.
Rosco
wondering says
To extend your point about Mainstream anti-virus. At the time of my mishap (described above), I was using Comcast’s free version of McAfee. My only recourse after getting infected was to pay them $79 to fix the problem. I understand that the fee would have been refunded had they failed. Luckily I found combofix first thru a friend’s friend. I did tweet my experience.
Also, anti-virus on laptops is tricky, you don’t want the scanner running when you are using the laptop and then when not using it – you turn it off. This leaves no time for the updater or full scanner to run.
Anonymous says
thanks for your file
Babar says
Combofix is an amazing anti virus software. it cleans up my whole computer in seconds of a minute. i use combofix after visity different websites. it is really a nice software. you guys are doing a very nice job. keep it up and get prayers of hundreds of millions users all over the world.