virus !!!!!?

Question

hey computer masters out there , i possesed norton anti virus which didn't show the existence of any virus in 2 yrs , but then yesterday i downloaded spyware doctor and avg anti virus and rune up utilities 2006 and i found 630 infections in terms of spyware and 2 trojan hores namely trojan downloader. generic.hgm , and trojan downloader. generic.00b ,
did i do the right thing ??
and what r the other softwares u suggest ???
does any of u have info on these viruses and trojand and their severity levels ????

Answer 1

I personally use Kaspersky Anti Virus, Spybot Search and Destroy, Adaware and Windows Defender

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html Spybot

http://www.download.com/3000-2144-10045910.html AdAware

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx windows defender

Kaspersky is not a free Anti Virus, but i would recommend anyone to it... http://www.kaspersky.co.uk/

and yes hun you did do the right thing, except i have never heard of rune up utilities 2006.... this might be a rogue spyware scanner which pretends you have more on your pc then you actually do, i also could not find anything on google about it so maybe you should check that the name is correct for that software package.

message me if you need help, cheers and good luck!!

Answer 2

yup you did the right thing, make sure you uninstalled that orrible expensive norton, AVG and Avast are good free virus checkers.
also install spybot and windows defender. those programs will remove most stuff and tell you the security levels of each problem,

Answer 3

Errrr you are not updating the virus patterns of Norton that is why viruses keeps slipping in your computer..

Answer 4

on avg, u can click on the file of the virus, once it is detected and the scan is done. once u r there delete the file and empty your recycle bin.