Just wanted to ask the techie's of this board, is there any really really good antivirus / adware / spyware removers out there? Preferably free, or some that you would have to buy, cause i got quite a few cash to spare (ok a few hundreds ) and i really want to fix up my cpu, get some new antivirus... since my old one (avast) died on me, and keeps asking for the CD Key, and keeps rejecting it for some reason. Thanks for all the recommendations you guys can give will be really helpful! Oh and by the way, is there a software to make sure that all my softwares are up to date? Or a website? Or something? Cause i really hate logging off Guild Wars or stopping some of my anime downloads (NON LICENSED) just so i can update parts of my cpu... Thanks for all your help ^_^
Ad aware: http://www.download.com/3000-2144-10045910.html You might be able to get nortan antivirus on www.linewire.com
Limewire is illegal You spelt the wrong URL Mcafee is the newest and greatest spyware and virus protection product ever. Or is it a company...
i use spybot: search and destroy for spywear...ad-aware SE for any adware...CWShredder for trojans and norton for the viruses and my comp is clean and works fine
I would not reccomend using limewire, it will ---- up your comuter even more and however posted that is a dumass. I wouldn't reccomend Norton becuase it can be turned off by viruses. I reccomend Trend Micro. I am not sure about McAffree. As for spyware and AdWare use Microsoft's Anti-Spyware (that is free) and for AdWare use Spyware Doctor.
for anti virus i use avast but there are lot out there, i would recommend tryin out some free trials and see what u like the best, for spyware i use microsoft anti spyware beta and spysweeper
what i use, and has worked for me for about 2 years now. Great firewall called sygate (go to download.com and search it) and avg antivirus (google it). Both are free, or have a free version. My pc's been virus/spyware free for a long time. Def sugest it, poons norton, mcaffe, anything.. (BTW, limewire aint that bad, if you have a good virus protection )
The reason you have been virus "free" is because AVG has a small definition base, it doesn't detect as much as say a more powerful virus protection would.
i think avast is the best free anti virus Avast.com for spyware i would say Microsoft Antispyware http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/s...re/default.mspx its free and i would really suggest ewido ewido.com it says its a 14 day free trial but its a lie its 100% free you just dont get the guard its really good it got all my viruses away i would say ewido is 10/10 microsoft antispyware 9/10 avast 8/10
her is da run down if you have some money to spend you should buy the trend micro pack...you can get it at best-buy for like 20-30 bucks... that comes with virus/spyware/adware etc... you can also get a good system of comp cleaner for free as well for spyware removal get - spybot search and destroy(free) adaware (free) microsoft beta(free)... i suggest you get all three... why?... because each program searches and detects a different type of malicious program...i have all three and run them every night... having all three is not excessive, they will each find what the other doesn't....believe me i run them once a day and every night they find something for virus removal get - avast home edition (free) or avg (free) i have never heard of ewido, but i am going to try it out...atm i personally use avast for firewall use - xp firewall or get zonelabs for a registry cleaner, i use ezclean and ccleaner both are free
