My laptop's on the DL right now -- I'm trying everything to clear off what's bothering it, but it's so bogged down that running anything is five times the time investment it ought to be
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Programs you need: (All free unless you want to pay.)
CCleaner: Gets rid of all the crap your computer accumulates during normal operations. Kinda like a hard drive de-clutterer.
AdAware: This program scans and removes adware from your pc. If you pay for it, you get realtime protection. Otherwise, you just have to run it yourself. No sweat.
AVG Anti Virus: Free Edition: Pardon my french, but FUCK NORTON ANTIVIRUS. I've never seen more bloated and buggy piece of software. AVG does everything Norton AV does and for free. It downloads automatic updates, it runs clean and quiet in the background, it even scans incoming mail. In short, it ROCKS. And it's FREE.
I use all four of these and they've done very well by me. I also connect via a wifi router, which has its own firewall and it alone has greatly reduced my exposure, if you will. And if you use uTorrent or BitLord, I also recommend PeerGuardian.
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CCleaner: Gets rid of all the crap your computer accumulates during normal operations. Kinda like a hard drive de-clutterer.
AdAware: This program scans and removes adware from your pc. If you pay for it, you get realtime protection. Otherwise, you just have to run it yourself. No sweat.
Spybot - Search & Destroy: Gets what AdAware misses & vice versa.
AVG Anti Virus: Free Edition: Pardon my french, but FUCK NORTON ANTIVIRUS. I've never seen more bloated and buggy piece of software. AVG does everything Norton AV does and for free. It downloads automatic updates, it runs clean and quiet in the background, it even scans incoming mail. In short, it ROCKS. And it's FREE.
I use all four of these and they've done very well by me. I also connect via a wifi router, which has its own firewall and it alone has greatly reduced my exposure, if you will. And if you use uTorrent or BitLord, I also recommend PeerGuardian.
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