Computer antivirus and malware?

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• 1 chris // Sep 23, 2008

  really good free firewall:

  http://www.comodo.com/

  and by free anti virus, i like avira the best. easiest to use and highest detection rate

  http://www.free-av.de/en/index.html

• 2 idontknowmyname // Sep 23, 2008

  Well, since you already had experience with AVG, keep using it beside Spybot S&D for spyware, and Komodo Firewall.

• 3 fleetcommander@rocketmail.com // Sep 23, 2008

  give malwarebytes a trial it is very good at finding stuff many others miss.

  http://www.malwarebytes.org/

  and try Avast 4.8 anti virus system.

  http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html

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• 4 Mike // Sep 23, 2008

  Well… if I was you I would ditch AVG, it doesn’t work.

  If you want very good Anti-Virus protection. I would recommend that you purchase Kaspersky http://www.kaspersky.com/. (From a store like Future Shop, or Staples. So you have the physical copy of the program). From what I have heard about it. It seems to be one of the best protection programs out there And it has hourly updates, to give you protection against the latest virus’s.

  I use all of these myself, and all of them are free, they are very effective.

  1 Ad-Aware 2008, Much more effective than previous versions and faster, does not suck up system resources like the previous versions, also there various skins to suit your preferences.
  http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-2008/3000-8022_4-10045910.html

  2 Spybot - Search & Destroy, its a little out of date but it works.
  http://www.download.com/Spybot-Search-Destroy/3000-8022_4-10122137.html?tag=lst-1&cdlPid=10861988

  3 SpywareBlaster, blocks potentially damaging applications and programs from running.
  http://www.download.com/SpywareBlaster/3000-8022_4-10196637.html?hhTest=1

  4 Simple File Shredder, it isn’t an anti spy, but it shreds unnecessary files including cookies and it speeds up system performance.
  http://www.download.com/Simple-File-Shredder/3000-2092_4-10301332.html

  5 MRU-Blaster, detects and cleans MRU (most recently used) lists on your computer. By looking at these MRU lists, someone could determine what files you opened/saved/looked at, what their file names were, and much more! (And, in many cases, the lists are displayed in drop-down menus automatically.) (From website.)
  http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/mrublaster.html

  Also. I suggest that you stay away from online anti-spy scans. As it is not hard for a cracker to hack it, and insert some malicious code into the program which after scanning will give you even more virus’s. (That’s how my computer got infected once, and after that I have been advising people to stay away from them).

  I personally don’t like AVG, it screwed up my computer after I Un-Installed it, and Avast didn’t work for me. And Trend Micro, has poor detection rates (I tried it a few month’s ago (downloaded) and scanned, it found 3 items. I ran Ad-Aware after that and it found 18 items that trend micro passed right over).

  And I would advise you to stay away from P2P, programs. As they are an excellent vector for infections.

  Hope this help’s

• 5 sum // Sep 23, 2008

  If your computer is infected by trojan, spyware/ adwares/ malwares, you can easily get rid of spywares and adwares by using any free spyware or adware killer tool, you can download the ones which are free.Free programs to download are Spybot S&D, SuperAntiSpyware, Ad-Aware 2007 and AVG. Check out http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-sAFtLsc8erIoh.ENhksr2KyG for more details.

• 6 Ooops // Sep 23, 2008

  I have used AVG Anti Virus, Zone Alarm Firewall, Spy-bot Search and Destroy a spyware killer for years. I have recently added superantispyware. They are all free for personal use and I have had no trouble with Viruses Trojans Hackers etc. I have just upgraded to AVG free 8.0 and all seems good so far. Zone Alarm allows a lot of personal configuration unlike the Windows Firewall. They can all be downloaded from http://www.download.com/ I also use Windows Defender from the Microsoft site. It is safe to use two anti-spy products but never use more than one A/V as it can cause conflicts. You should run A/V and anti spy weekly. Hope this helps

• 7 susan // Sep 23, 2008

  the good custom security suite in my opinion
  kaspersky internet secrity - Internet Security Suites include a firewall, anti-virus and other products.
  Spyware Doctor

  have a 30 day trial to see if they can be proved good,
  best of luck

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