With CA licence just expired, I am looking for a good, reliable and cheap or free virus checker. I have 3 PC's to cover. Any pearls of wisdom much appreciated.
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Recommend me a Virus Checker
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Posted 2 years ago #
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AVG free
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avast
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AVG free slows down machines and is only about 50% effective.
KASPERSKY, WITHOUT A DOUBT!!! (yes, I'm shouting)
Free with Virgin broadband now.
Posted 2 years ago # -
i need a program that gets rid of viruemonde virus. tried a few and still got the fooker
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Another Avast vote.
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AVG free is, as the name suggests, free - but it's not the best out there. It'll do the job though as long as you're sensible about suspect e-mails and you don't surf dodgy websites..... I'm using it at the moment until Virgin release a Win7 version of their PC Guard software
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jedi, you need to read the following
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic3494.htmlmudglutten, i use avast but you could use
http://www.microsoft.com/Security_Essentials/
depending on your o/s
i also use
http://www.superantispyware.com/
& this has been ok
http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php
& this has been ok
http://www.sandboxie.com/
& all free
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Microsoft Security Essentials. Seems to work really well and consumes almost no resources in the process.
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rangerroy, i tried and says i dont have admin rights or something
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jedi, what O/s are you using vista??
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yes
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>Microsoft Security Essentials. Seems to work really well and consumes almost no resources in the process.
Just uninstalled Avast and trying MS SE. Cheers!
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Jedi you need to sort the admin rights out
I use xp so i'm not to hot on vista
this should help
http://www.computerperformance.co.uk/vista/user_account_control.htmPosted 2 years ago # -
i am set up as admin so i dont understand
i am shit at puters!
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so am I
but read the article & you may learn somethingPosted 2 years ago # -
i got tons of runtime errors when running symantec thingy..... :0
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try the malwarebytes i would not trust symantec anyway itwill find result but you may have to pay for software to remove it,if malwarebytes does not find & destroy it looks like hijackthis & killbox are the way to go
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i hope i dont end up deleting all my diary again
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have faith.
ps you may need to turn off your system restore when doing a scan otherwise the malware will be restored when you reboot because system restore folders are protected when turned on & the malware will laugh at you in a hidden/protected folder, just remember to turn back on afterwards
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Thanks all!
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sorry for hijack
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I would reccomend Bullguard.. pretty web active and diverse and havent picked anything up since i have been using it (3 years)
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Avira free edition + regular scan with malwarebytes + Windows firewall + one monthly run of ccleaner.
All free, all great and none of them are system hogs.
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Yep, just started using Avira cos citrix client wouldn't work through AVG. Have used Avast for years and years and years and think it's great - but the updates practically bring the PC to a shuddering halt.
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