virus and anti-spyware checker?

#1 Postby **SouthFloridawx** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 2:05 pm

Does anyone know of free virus and anti-spyware checker... I moved recently and lost my Freedom-Antivirus, provided by Adelphia. Freedom was awesome and I never had any problems, but now it's just problems, problems and more problems.

lurkey · #2 Postby **lurkey** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 2:16 pm

Anti-Virus software:

AVG

Anti-Spyware software:

Both Lavasoft's Adware and Spybot

and if you use Firefox:

Adblock

#3 Postby **SouthFloridawx** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 2:24 pm

Thanks... I'm going to try those out and see what happens. I couldn't be any worse than Free Norton Trial from yahoo...

#4 Postby **Jack8631** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 4:06 pm

AVG rocks. Windows Defender does a nice job.

southerngale · #5 Postby **southerngale** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 5:13 pm

IuseAVGandInevergetviruses.

#6 Postby **Tstormwatcher** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 5:43 pm

spyware terminator is much better than adware and spybot. I have had all three.

lurkey · #7 Postby **lurkey** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 6:37 pm

Tstormwatcher wrote:spyware terminator is much better than adware and spybot. I have had all three.

SouthFloridawx

You should use more than one spyware program. One program doesn't get it all.

Avoid Norton. I have never used it. But I've heard it is a memory and resource hog.

#8 Postby **Bellarose** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 9:40 pm

I use Spybot and Ewido. Both are free. Be sure to check for updates before you run them. If you're very brave and computer savvy, you can also run HijackThis. Be very careful not to delete anything essential with the last program. There is a forum I use to check which programs are safe to delete and if you like, I'll try to dig up the link for you. I agree 100% with Lurker...always use more than one program.

lurkey · #9 Postby **lurkey** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 9:57 pm

Here is another free virus scanner: Avast

Also, you might want to download Zone Alarm. It's free. It doesn't hurt to have a firewall.

#10 Postby **Stephanie** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 12:34 pm

lurker_from_nc wrote:
Tstormwatcher wrote:spyware terminator is much better than adware and spybot. I have had all three.

SouthFloridawx

You should use more than one spyware program. One program doesn't get it all.

Avoid Norton. I have never used it. But I've heard it is a memory and resource hog.

It is...

I swear it slows down my whole system.

I do use Adware as well by Lavasoft.

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