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anti virus help!!!!!

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padefc

padefc

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ive let me son borrow my laptop and now im being plauged with pop ups im running avg free and a version of stinger,all firewalls are on as are popup blockers,avg says im fully protected, avg finds the problems but does not seem to cure them and stinger dosnt seemto do anything as im not very good with the hole world of pc/laptops i would be gratefull if any one could help
 

Best ad removal software available (free version is all you need).

Ad-Aware 2008 Free - Lavasoft

You should ALWAYS run a firewall. Windows firewall is rubbish. Get Zonealarm free and run it on every pc and laptop you have.

Firewall Freeware, Free Firewall Protection Software, Firewall Shareware: ZoneAlarm® Free Firewall Software.

You ONLY need to run avgfree if you download software from torrents or install messenger type of applications (that are as bad as spyware) or download random executable programs from the net.
AVG Free - Download installation files & documentation

If you dont download applications and general internet 'crap' with an aim to running it on your pc, running antivirus software will make your pc run on average about 30% slower than its normal speed. Copying files and unzipping files etc will all take longer if you run antivirus too.

So. Install zonealarm and run it on everything. Make it block anything you don't know, think looks dodgy or zonealarm tells you to block. If you are unsure, zonealarm will tell you what it is so you can decide if you should block it or not.

Periodically run adaware (linked above). Don't have to worry about cookies at all, they are just small text files that are only used for tracking. Nothing malicious will live in them. Look out for registry keys, exe files, spyware apps, grayware, malware etc etc

If you REALLLLLLLLLLY must download internet crap and run it. Run avgfree on it before you even click on the downloaded file. If it raises any concern, delete the file.
 
Best ad removal software available (free version is all you need).

Ad-Aware 2008 Free - Lavasoft

You should ALWAYS run a firewall. Windows firewall is rubbish. Get Zonealarm free and run it on every pc and laptop you have.

Firewall Freeware, Free Firewall Protection Software, Firewall Shareware: ZoneAlarm® Free Firewall Software.

You ONLY need to run avgfree if you download software from torrents or install messenger type of applications (that are as bad as spyware) or download random executable programs from the net.
AVG Free - Download installation files & documentation

If you dont download applications and general internet 'crap' with an aim to running it on your pc, running antivirus software will make your pc run on average about 30% slower than its normal speed. Copying files and unzipping files etc will all take longer if you run antivirus too.

So. Install zonealarm and run it on everything. Make it block anything you don't know, think looks dodgy or zonealarm tells you to block. If you are unsure, zonealarm will tell you what it is so you can decide if you should block it or not.

Periodically run adaware (linked above). Don't have to worry about cookies at all, they are just small text files that are only used for tracking. Nothing malicious will live in them. Look out for registry keys, exe files, spyware apps, grayware, malware etc etc

If you REALLLLLLLLLLY must download internet crap and run it. Run avgfree on it before you even click on the downloaded file. If it raises any concern, delete the file.
 
I uses to run AVG free and Windows Firewall, but some clever virus turned off my firewall and installed a virus, i had to reformat. Now im using NOD32 and windows firewall, i found zonealarm took up far too much Memory and used a lot of CPU, it also gave me very,very low fps whilst playing a game and also stopped me and my team winning a final once. :@

So zonealarm is fine as long as u dnt play FPS games. :D. But i would give NOD32 a try, ive heard good things about it.
 
used to use nod32, it was ok.

liked kaspersky, but didnt like having to patch and find validation tools and such like so often.

mcafee a was system resource hog. likewise norton.

a bit of common sense and some basic experience can keep the nasties off your computer.
 

MikelsGoat said:
Well i just tried zonealarm pro and it wouldnt even let me connect to the internet :D
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yea zonealarm is intense, i wouldnt' recommend it for a casual user, depending on what version you have it can be intense to configure

if you have trouble getting rid of the viruses cos they keep popping up as your running the scan, try booting the computer in safe mode and running the scans again. back when i ran windows i had a virus like that once, but it wouldn't let me delete it because it said the file was in use, booting in safe mode prevents this from happening.
 
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