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Title: Viruses on my PC...
Post by: helter skelter on May 15, 2009, 02:10:25 pm
Basically my PC has a shit-ton of viruses and AVG Anti-Virus Free isn't really finding them! Can someone direct me to (free) good anti-virus software please?
Title: Viruses on my PC...
Post by: hero_bash on May 15, 2009, 02:21:20 pm
free is not equal to good.. or whatever

but Kaspersky seems to be the best
Title: Viruses on my PC...
Post by: ATARI on May 15, 2009, 06:45:16 pm
the other 2 free ones that i can think of off the top of my head are Avast and AntiVir.  googe them they're both free and maybe they'll pick them up for you (never tested them as AVG has always worked perfectly fine for me)
Title: Viruses on my PC...
Post by: Barack Obama on May 16, 2009, 03:44:57 am
how would you know you have a bunch of viruses if your virus scanner can't find them? AVG should be able to find pretty much every virus as long as it's updated.
Title: Viruses on my PC...
Post by: helter skelter on May 16, 2009, 04:14:45 am
My computer is just running pretty poorly and I often get stupid pop-ups where I never used to. I cleaned up my C: drive the other day but there are still some problems, so I think it's probably viruses.
Title: Viruses on my PC...
Post by: Barack Obama on May 16, 2009, 04:25:03 am
Quote from: helter skelter on May 16, 2009, 04:14:45 am
My computer is just running pretty poorly and I often get stupid pop-ups where I never used to. I cleaned up my C: drive the other day but there are still some problems, so I think it's probably viruses.
maybe you should try using a spyware/adware remover instead of a virus scanner because those don't sound like virus problems to me
Title: Viruses on my PC...
Post by: Luvdisc on May 16, 2009, 04:51:03 pm
http://knol.google.com/k/luvodicus/diy-virus-removal/14usae9e5u8fp/2?domain=knol.google.com&locale=en#

It needs to be updated, but is a quick idea of how you can remove it yourself...
Title: Viruses on my PC...
Post by: Neophyte on May 16, 2009, 05:14:04 pm
Download Malwarebytes.

 It does what all those programs do and is much better. Very simple to use too.