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Hi my fellow dakkaites now as i am rubish with pc's can anyone recomend a good free or cheap antvirus softwear that i can use {has to be simple to use lol} many thanks..

AVG Free Edition.

Or just format your computer.

Arctik_Firangi wrote:AVG Free Edition.

+1, very effective and easy to install/use.

yeah i wpould format if i could work out how ? lol see i come from that middeling age when all we did in IT at school was play on simcity and paintspa. then im not that computer minded anything else science based and im ok but not computers lol.
anyway if anyone could help then its the guys on dakka thinks me ! and you did so a big thank you chaps ..x {dont take that kiss in a gay way but in a big gruff man like way }

http://free.avg.com/gb-en/homepage

"get free antivirus" and follow instructions from there.

You got Windows put the CD in, follow the instructions. Need your programs, copy all your files to disks or something.

Most PC shops will do a virus/ etc cleaning for (around here) $50 CAN. Pretty common really someone's kid gets all kinds of crap on the computer without even trying really.

Short term antivirus:Fromat

Long term antivirus: AVG is good and so is Clamwin

You could buy a Mac and you wouldn't have those problems.

*ducks*

Thanks guys just downloaded avg.


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Is that cos macs arnt advanced enough for virus's's's {?]lol

"How to deal with bullies? You punch them in the face."
Dean of my school for 8th to 12th grade...pretty tight ship that school was .

^ARRRRGGGGGG

Well, if only we could just punch them viruses......anyway, I will put my vote into you all downloading less p0rn.

Sanctjud wrote:"How to deal with bullies? You punch them in the face."
Dean of my school for 8th to 12th grade...pretty tight ship that school was .

You might be in the wrong thread, mate.

The exploitative software has to be specifically written for the operating environment. Since barely anyone uses Macs (traditionally), viruses were rarely written for them. 'Old' mac viruses don't work on new Mac OS releases - neither does old Mac software for that matter.

I run minimal security on most of my computers (I only use PCs running windows and linux normally). The most important precaution is scanning downloaded files before any file execution - that's how the majority of computers are infected.

i used to use avg but have found a new brilliant alternative
Avast
turned up 38 things avg didn't see

Sanctjud wrote:Well, if only we could just punch them viruses......anyway, I will put my vote into you all downloading less p0rn.

I'm not sure I follow you here...

Vulkan_He'stan wrote:i used to use avg but have found a new brilliant alternative
Avast
turned up 38 things avg didn't see

I will +50 for Avast. I used to use AVG as well, and Avast is just WAY better. I even figured out how to do boot scans on my own. Go figure lol. Seriously though Avast 100x

I'm a linux guy, that said since you're not that computer savvy it might not be a good idea to put you through that. So since you're on windows, I'll vote for AVG if only because Avast did a lot of stuff I didn't care for, just the way it worked.

There's more to it than anti-virus though, if I were you I'd look into Spybot Search and Destroy as well, it's free, easy to use, and picks up a lot of gunk you're not going to want.

Another free program to add to your toolbox? Look into CCleaner. Not really for anti-virus or malware, it does keep the rest of your computer cleaned out in a relatively hasslefree way, just run it every once in a while.

Don't forget to defrag! For that, I recommend Auslogic's Disk Defrag utility.

free.avg.com/ - AVG Antivirus
www.safer-networking.org/ - Spybot S&D
piriform.com - CCleaner
www.auslogics.com/en/software/disk-defrag - Disk Defrag

And if you want Avast...
avast.com


Best of luck to you, Cheers!

avast FTW

Yeah Avast is great. Needs to be redistered but it takes like 2minutes..

I am using these programs and never had any viruses in my computer..

Avast free
Zonealarm firewall
Sbybot Search and destroy
Malwarebytes antimalware
SUPERAntispyware
Priform CCcleaner

And seriously. Advanced systemcare is really good program! There is free version available which does pretty much all the things that normal people need.

I'm thinking about Avast.

I've been trying Microsoft Security Essentials the past 48hrs, as I liked Windows Defender, and it's been absorbed by the MSE. However It seems to have slowed down the PC.

After checking some troubleshooting that suggested to remove all other anti-virus stuff, I removed my AVG and thats helped a little, plus took off Windows Defender as it was no longer required.

But I'm loathe to remove Malwarebytes, or my Spybot, and my XP is still bouncing around 20-30% CPU usage all the time, normally its minimal.
I'm also still not 100% convinced on having a Microsoft based Anti virus as my only protection.

Anyone else encounted issues with MSE?

Sanctjud wrote:"How to deal with bullies? You punch them in the face."
Dean of my school for 8th to 12th grade...pretty tight ship that school was .

^ARRRRGGGGGG

Well, if only we could just punch them viruses......anyway, I will put my vote into you all downloading less p0rn.

Very interesting take. I would say stop going to sites that will murder your computer. TPB has gotten viruses, and will dowload malware. Are you looking for anti-virus or anti-ad ware>

Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:I'm thinking about Avast.

I've been trying Microsoft Security Essentials the past 48hrs, as I liked Windows Defender, and it's been absorbed by the MSE. However It seems to have slowed down the PC.

After checking some troubleshooting that suggested to remove all other anti-virus stuff, I removed my AVG and thats helped a little, plus took off Windows Defender as it was no longer required.

But I'm loathe to remove Malwarebytes, or my Spybot, and my XP is still bouncing around 20-30% CPU usage all the time, normally its minimal.
I'm also still not 100% convinced on having a Microsoft based Anti virus as my only protection.

Anyone else encounted issues with MSE?

If I were you I'd stay the hell away from Microsoft products as much as you can, they use too much in the way of resources for what they actually do. Honestly your best bet as far as security is to get a good handful of specialized tools that do one thing really well as opposed to one program that tries to do everything. With a bit of learning you can figure out how to tweak every tool to get a precise security level you want, which takes a bit more work than 'set it and forget it' but offers in the end a more secure computer.

By the way, what browser are you using?

AVG or AVAST are the best to go with.
Avast is my preferred one.

MSE has an incredibly low footprint, though if you are running multiple anti-virus apps at the same time, the tend to conflict with each other which can cause system slowdowns/instability.

Anecdote: A friend of mine had an old expired trial version of bullguard still installed on his PC, and was using something else. This managed to result in his internet being ludicrously slow, I had a look and uninstalled bullguard on a hunch, and voila.

Agrinja wrote:

If I were you I'd stay the hell away from Microsoft products as much as you can, they use too much in the way of resources for what they actually do. Honestly your best bet as far as security is to get a good handful of specialized tools that do one thing really well as opposed to one program that tries to do everything. With a bit of learning you can figure out how to tweak every tool to get a precise security level you want, which takes a bit more work than 'set it and forget it' but offers in the end a more secure computer.

By the way, what browser are you using?

Firefox.

After playing WoW last night and getting a 8 - 11 fps, I decided enough was enough, and uninstalled MSE, sytraight away the high running CPU returned to its normal 1-3, and my fps bounced back up to 60 as normal.

Downloaded Avast, to work alongside Malwarebytes, looking around a few tech forums it seems MSE and XP can have issues, seems I was one of the unlucky ones.

I used to use AVG, but after my mom ruined another image despite having AVG installed, switched to Avast - also free. Works great.

I've got to try and get my mother a job with Symantec.