Internet anti-virus help?

**scracha** · 23rd January 2008, 18:25

Combine Avast with Spybot 1.5 and Comodo Firewall and you'll have a system with pretty decent protection for the princely sum of sweet fanny adams

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Spend some peso's on an external hard drive or if you must, a DVD burner (or another PC that's on your network).

Download http://www.runtime.org/dixmlsetup.exe

Run it, back up your C drive (and any other partitions).

Relax, be smug and be glad you hadn't pissed away your money on Norton Ghost or Acronis like this Scotsman before finding a free alternative that works much better.

Oh, and if the wee Avast email icon keeps doing weird spinny things it's a good indication you've got a wee program on your PC that's telling people you're Dr Umbookoo from Nigeria and have 10 Million spare USD to shove in a super secret Kiwi bank account..

Now pay some money into Boomer's paypal account as he's meinubergeekfuhrer

**homer** · 23rd January 2008, 18:45

Originally Posted by jim.cox

There is a free version of AVG available at www.grisoft.cz

go for the AVG free version

all ive had for about 2 years and no probs
a friend is a pc wizz, works from home its all he said to use and stil recommends it

used to have avast
and dont think it works that well actually

your antivirus shouldnt be finding much at all ,cause you should be getting viruses
and you should download windows defender as well

**homer** · 23rd January 2008, 18:47

Originally Posted by scracha

Combine Avast with Spybot 1.5 and Comodo Firewall and you'll have a system with pretty decent protection for the princely sum of sweet fanny adams

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Spend some peso's on an external hard drive or if you must, a DVD burner (or another PC that's on your network).

Download http://www.runtime.org/dixmlsetup.exe

Run it, back up your C drive (and any other partitions).

Relax, be smug and be glad you hadn't pissed away your money on Norton Ghost or Acronis like this Scotsman before finding a free alternative that works much better.

Oh, and if the wee Avast email icon keeps doing weird spinny things it's a good indication you've got a wee program on your PC that's telling people you're Dr Umbookoo from Nigeria and have 10 Million spare USD to shove in a super secret Kiwi bank account..

Now pay some money into Boomer's paypal account as he's meinubergeekfuhrer

spybot search and destroy actually collects info from your pc and can add stuff to your pc which you wont know
,used to use it dont anymore

**DEATH_INC.** · 23rd January 2008, 18:49

Originally Posted by homer

spybot search and destroy actually collects info from your pc and can add stuff to your pc which you wont know
,used to use it dont anymore

What sorta stuff does it add? What are ya using now?

**homer** · 23rd January 2008, 19:09

Originally Posted by DEATH_INC.

What sorta stuff does it add? What are ya using now?

im using avg and windows defender
win defender is from the microsoft site
avg from grissoft
and theres a program like windows defender but its from avg ,its free as well im just downloading it now

sorry i thought it was spybot search and destroy that left shit in the pc but i think its a different program

You shouldnt be finding anything with the antivirus or defender programs
this is because if they find something then the programs let it in ,which means there not doing there job ,which is to stop things before they get there

**Mort** · 23rd January 2008, 19:48

I've been using a Apple Mac for 18 years - never had a virus or even heard of anyone who did.

**homer** · 23rd January 2008, 19:57

Originally Posted by Mort

I've been using a Apple Mac for 18 years - never had a virus or even heard of anyone who did.

You wont find many if any viruses for apple
bacause no one targets apple "much"

they write the viruses prodomently for microsoft
thats why some dont get and wont get them
there mainly to corrupt microsoft system

**homer** · 23rd January 2008, 20:00

Originally Posted by DEATH_INC.

What sorta stuff does it add? What are ya using now?

If anything is added to your pc from a spy wear program its called adwear
its a small program that collects info from your pc and passes it on
or ads more to your pc
maybe bank details or pin numbers or passwords

Ever wonder if something pops up in the email ,you wonder how did i get that
very likely its been from adwear

**YellowDog** · 23rd January 2008, 20:01

IT is my thing!

The free ones aren't up to much. If you PM me I will send you a free link to a proper one. The updates are quite big though.

If you actually have a problem Trend House Call is an on line scan that will get rid of most pests and viruses. There aint much better around. You may have to google it however if you try (from memory) http://housecall65.trendmicro.com , it should sort you out. Will take a couple of hours though.

**homer** · 23rd January 2008, 20:04

i used to use trend micro product and wouldnt bother again
it was ok but avg is better

**YellowDog** · 23rd January 2008, 20:05

Originally Posted by Mort

I've been using a Apple Mac for 18 years - never had a virus or even heard of anyone who did.

Loads of MAC viruses around.

You've been lucky.

Safari is geting hit quite regularly.

The best viruses don't let you know they are there. They just extract the data they want without saying thank you.

You probably have had MAC viruses for years!

**DEATH_INC.** · 23rd January 2008, 20:08

Originally Posted by homer

If anything is added to your pc from a spy wear program its called adwear
its a small program that collects info from your pc and passes it on
or ads more to your pc
maybe bank details or pin numbers or passwords

Ever wonder if something pops up in the email ,you wonder how did i get that
very likely its been from adwear

I know this, I was just questioning what spybot added, as it's supposed to find and destroy adware....

**homer** · 23rd January 2008, 20:09

Originally Posted by YellowDog

Loads of MAC viruses around.

You've been lucky.

Safari is geting hit quite regularly.

The best viruses don't let you know they are there. They just extract the data they want without saying thank you.

You probably have had MAC viruses for years!

If it gets in your anti virus aint working
thats what it for
i dont have a mac
i have a window
no problems ,the best viruses are just not in the anti virus updates yet so it means the anti vir is behind the times

**Mort** · 23rd January 2008, 22:49

Originally Posted by YellowDog

Loads of MAC viruses around.
You probably have had MAC viruses for years!

I think I would know it by now .... and that includes 4 years of working as Apple Mac desktop support...

I'm not saying none exist but I've never seen any evidence of one ever.