Anti Virus/Trojan/Spyware

[Jasandjules]

What's a good (and fairly cheap, or free) package?

I already have and run AVG and Spybot.

[Gruppe1875]

AVG is the best i've ever used

[Jasandjules]

Interesting.

Have you used Spyhunter at all? It seems to have found a few things which AVG hasn't flagged?

[annodomini2]

Avast free seems to find more stuff than avg, plus it doesn't have the adverts.

Make sure you're running a firewall.

Make sure yoou're running tea timer with spybot

[Jasandjules]

I downloaded Avast, it also seemed to want me to pay though??!!? It scanned, but then wanted money to delete the trojan.

I also downloaded PC Tools anti-virus - though it also missed them, and I use Norton as a Firewall (I know, not the best).

WHat is the tea timer thing with Spybot please!?!?!

[arcturus]

Teatimer is Spybots resident realtime program which constantly monitors for malicious processes running on your PC.

annodomini2 said:

Avast free seems to find more stuff than avg, plus it doesn't have the adverts.

I've never seen adverts on AVG Free.

And you do know not to run 2 AV programs on your PC at the same time, don't you. It will slow to a crawl if you do.

Edited by arcturus on Sunday 25th May 23:41

[Jasandjules]

Hi,

Ok, do I need to turn that on when I run spybot? Or just activate spybot and away we go?) - Ah, I've just found that tab and set it on. Ta for that!

I do only have one AV package at a time running (except for PRevX which won't die, won't uninstall etc..) - that's what I'm trying to find is the best one so I can just let that one start and ignore the rest - except when I want to run a scan.

I do however also run Norton Internet Security (well, I did until I installed the Virgin Broadband package, which deleted NIS, though I've decided NIS is a bit better at blocking pop-ups).

Edited by Jasandjules on Monday 26th May 10:38

[cyberface]

Jasandjules said:

(except for PRevX which won't die, won't uninstall etc..) - that's what I'm trying to find is the best one so I can just let that one start and ignore the rest - except when I want to run a scan.

I do however also run Norton Internet Security (well, I did until I installed the Virgin Broadband package, which deleted NIS, though I've decided NIS is a bit better at blocking pop-ups)

WTF?

I seriously, absolutely, cannot understand why people put up with this utter bullst. Seriously - does Virgin Broadband automatically delete an application you've paid for and installed???? Is this highlighted in BOLD in the terms and conditions of Virgin Broadband??

Imagine if Skype deleted thousands of pounds worth of development tools, without asking.

And applications that 'won't die, won't uninstall, etc.' - well I've heard of the Sony product that is effectively a rootkit and therefore malicious software, but is this commonplace????


fk me, I really can't believe that people put up with this absurd crap. I can understand where that 'why are computers temperamental' post came from now. Christ, I hadn't realised it'd got that bad for average home users.... FFS it shouldn't be like this. Makes me really angry, and I can see where some of the contempt for the IT industry from users in general comes from.