i swear i have over 400 viruses way more than that
2007-03-06 14:16:47 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
If you have infection running rampant, you probably need to format your hard drive. Try an on-line scan first, because your computer may have malware that turns off any anti-virus you install.
http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx
If that clears up your computer, then install Antivir, a free anti-virus scanner that is very good.
http://www.free-av.com/
Then install, update, and run Spybot S&D and activate the resident function, it blocks several thousand known bad addresses. It also detects and removes the bots that turn off antivirus and firewall programmes.
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download2471.html
Then install a firewall if you haven't one already.
http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/products/znalm/freeDownload.jsp
2007-03-06 14:22:23 · answer #1 · answered by Fred C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no SUCH thing as free best.
Yes, I agree many free stuffs are helpful, but not to the max... Now, as a computer specialist, there is no good Free Anti virus software protection on the Net... I can easily hack AVG without it detects my harmful attempt to ruin your computer. Not just me alone know how to hack Free AVG Anti virus protection, thousands of people do... To make this much clearer, I can fool all free Anti Virus protection, but I can't seem to break into the subscribed ones...
So, are you protected with the best free Anti virus protection? Answer is ( No.)
I highly recommend McAfee 2007
2007-03-06 22:21:58 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Avast, Avg, Clamwin (decent but slow) F-Prot.
I would like to know where I can get some of the stuff Dell tech is smoking; because the sky obviously isn't blue in his world.
McAfee is an AWFUL virus detector. It does not detect as many viruses as it should. and most m\importantly it is a resource hog.
If you reallt want to know how A-V software stands up; go to the National Computer Secutity Association and look at their rankings of A-V software.
If you want to go Commercial' Look at PC-Cillin from Trend Micro (detects viruses genericly), and Kaspersky.
2007-03-07 01:42:01 · answer #3 · answered by Rev. Two Bears 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here are all the tools I use to keep my computer clean. All free.
Anti Virus
http://www.grisoft.com/doc/products-avg-... - AVG Anti Virus
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/...... - Trend Micro free online virus and spyware scan
Protection from BHO (browser helper objects) spyware, malware
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareb... - Spywareblaster
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareg... - Spywareguard
Scanning for spyware and removing
http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad-awar... - Ad-Aware SE Personal
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/mirro... - Spybot search and destroy
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security... - Windows Defender Spyware protection for free
2007-03-10 12:56:25 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here's a list of free ones http://www.basicspywaretips.com/freevirusremovaltool.html
2007-03-06 22:28:23 · answer #5 · answered by Tyler 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
AVG is one of the best ones to download. Free and easy.
2007-03-07 00:09:36 · answer #6 · answered by Bradley B 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
check out
http://computer-probs.blogspot.com/
It gives free downloads of anti spyware/virus/adware/trojan/versions which can detect and eliminate completely.Best wishes
2007-03-07 10:37:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋