PC infection! Need Options

[TheCount]

Quit looking at pr0n.

What kind of ridiculous statement is that?

 

[iceberg]

Yep I had a laptop crash after trying to use that to clean up a situation...

so your pc was already infected, then you tried to install it to clean it out? not sure what "a situation" would be in this case. : )

no anti-virus is failsafe, which is why running (2) isn't a bad idea. even better idea to actually pay for a good one that has broader coverage. people still need to pay attention to what they do, not load up ever free app out there cause the smileys are cute, and just be careful about what they let on their computer.

back when i built computers for family (will never do that again - here, buy an HP and ask them when you screw it up) i'd get flack all the time for the computer being slow and having all kinds of errors.

when i made them define "all kinds of errors" it was all the P2P sharing they were doing, the free/mal ware they were loading up and hell, how many friggin toolbars does any one browser need?

free games?

so i built them a ferrari and they treated it like the beverly hillbillies truck and loaded up everything they could find on it and wondered why they had problems.

pc's need update and maintenance just as much as cars do.

i'll stand by avg 100% as it has saved me a few times. i can understand frustrations when it doesn't save someone else, sure. but like i said, no AV is failsafe so common sense has to kick in at times too.

 

[iceberg]

I had been using the FREE version of AVG for about a year and it seem to be working just fine. I guess something just happen to make it passed it.

the free version is light coverage, like AV and spyware only. there are many other ways to get virus's and malware onto a system. that's why when you pay for it, you get the rootkit and other things that simply dig back down at a deeper level to protect your system.

in the end you found one of the best solutions available - system restore.

i had a friend who was trying to save her deceased husbands pc and keep it intact, but her cousin came over and did some p0rn surfing and got it nailed pretty bad even i couldn't clean it out. some nasty ones will hide code in the registry under a generic key and when you go back online, it will simply reload it self. her 8 year old daughter would try to use the computer and it would reroute to p0rn every time.

i spent 2 weeks on that thing and couldn't clean it up. they were both very good friends of mine so i really wanted to help her keep her husbands pc as it was when he passed but i couldn't do it.

ANWAY - just a way of saying the free protection is nice and good for many/most instances. but i'd not load *only* a free AV package and consider myself safe.