Anti Virus help required
2006-08-09 02:25:08 · 12 answers · asked by shravanin 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
Here are some products that may help. Follow up with spyware scans or you may get virus back again.
AVG has a good personal use Anti-Virus product available at: http://free.grisoft.com
Avast Antivirus, also for non-commercial use is available at: http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html
Both these products include active background scanning modules!
Bitdefender has an excellent scanner and removal tool but does not have any active background protection in the free version that is available at: http://www.bitdefender.com/site/Main/view/Download-Free-Products.html
There are quite a few free anti-spyware programs available! I suggest that users should use at least 3 different products to regularly scan their systems. Most of these products are free for non-commercial use versions that have disabled some features, usually the active resident protection.
Spybot Search and Destroy is an excellent program for scanning for and removing spyware. The resident modules can be a bit buggy, but the extra included tools such as startup manger are great! http://www.safer-networking.org/en/mirrors/index.html
Adaware is another good scanner and removal tool but it has no resident abilities at all in the free version. http://free.lavasoft.com
Ewido is fairly new as a free spyware scanner, but it comes from the people who brought us AVG, so I expect good things: http://free.grisoft.com
Microsoft has their free scanner avalable for download although many advise that this tool is a bit permissive of questionable programs and add ons! Defender does offer a couple of options the others do not have such as scheduled scan and a resident process for active protection. http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx
The Yahoo toolbar includes an Spyware scanner that works ok. Yahoo does not advise this but you can run this program outside the toolbar by simply creating a shortcut to the exe file found in the yahoo directory under program files. http://toolbar.yahoo.com/
A new player is on the scene with SUPERAntiSpware. I was fairly impressed with the deep scans performed by this product, and it found some inactive files with spyware embedded,that the others had missed. I will add this to the list of tools in the arsenal and see how it really performs on active spyware. If you want to try it you can download it here: http://www.superantispyware.com/download.html
Once you have your system cleaned up of all the spyware, then you should protect yourself against new infestations. Spyware Blaster does a very good job and does not use up any system resourses in doing so. Works with both IE and Firefox browsers: This Download can be found at http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
Another good way to avoid spyware is to use the Firefox browser. While not immune from spyware infestation, you will certainly not have as many problems as when you run I.E. Easy Download at http://www.mozilla.com
2006-08-09 02:32:17 · answer #1 · answered by Interested Dude 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes
run anti virus scan
then note the origin of virus
then delete it from that folder
if not able
then go to control panel->remove programs->the name virus will be there
remove it
good luck
2006-08-09 09:47:47 · answer #2 · answered by luv the great oye 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
AVG antivirus has a free edition and it works great. Haven't had a virus since I've been using it.
2006-08-09 09:29:08 · answer #3 · answered by phantom_steel1988 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Buy Trend Micro's PC-cillin. It's the most thorough anti virus ware I have ever used.
2006-08-09 09:29:16 · answer #4 · answered by yeller 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
AVG is good for a virus
2006-08-09 09:29:23 · answer #5 · answered by precious_52804 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
try to install avg antivirus its free for lifetime no renewing needed,my opinion it works better than antivirus,it clears most of the viruses that can't be deleted using antivirus.it can be dowloaded at download.com
2006-08-09 09:29:24 · answer #6 · answered by ndhnmanuel 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
restore your computer.
and then buy an anti virus after that
2006-08-09 09:27:23 · answer #7 · answered by Gui 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get AVG... it's free and should fix the problem.
http://free.grisoft.com
2006-08-09 09:27:18 · answer #8 · answered by Village Idiot 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ZoneAlarm--provides the best control in my opinion
2006-08-09 09:28:52 · answer #9 · answered by Mrsashko 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get AVG, it's free and it works well.
2006-08-09 09:27:20 · answer #10 · answered by Yoi_55 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋