Comments | shelaghc: Virus protection software suggestions?

shelaghc

Virus protection software suggestions?

Jun 08, 2008 22:02

I've been having mucho problems all day long with my computer. Freezes, constant shutdowns with no warning. At one point during a reboot, there was a huge red square on the screen - no, I'm not kidding ( Read more... )

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zanne68 June 9 2008, 02:33:25 UTC

I've never had any issues with McAfee. I suppose it depends on who you talk to and what their experience has been.

bkhager June 9 2008, 02:50:25 UTC

McAfee and Norton both use boocoo's of ram when you use them. I ditched both for AVG. There's a new version: 8.0
But you may want to download the free version of spybot and run it. It may be adware that's got you.

shelaghc June 9 2008, 03:05:35 UTC

I had the newer version of AVG running before - just installed the upgrade about a week or so ago.

There've been no unexpected shutdowns since starting Firefox in a new session and I'm really wondering if it was that vodka website that was doing me in.....

Trying to decide if I should reinstall AVG when I get home from the temp job tomorrow just to see what happens.....

shelaghc June 9 2008, 03:26:41 UTC

Ummm.... spybot's already found over 200 problems/errors.

That's bad, isn't it?

shelaghc June 9 2008, 03:36:03 UTC

Apparently there are over 1000 problems/errors according to spybot. Unless I buy the full version, it'll only repair 15......

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saraid June 9 2008, 02:55:39 UTC

yeah, we love spybot, and run it at least twice a week. see if that doesn't help :)

shelaghc June 9 2008, 04:25:44 UTC

Running it now. Crossing my fingers.

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shelaghc June 9 2008, 04:03:56 UTC

Actually, I just found out it *wasn't* spybot - it was a clone. Running the real deal now.

I found a couple of geeks via an LJ community called pittsburgh - one of them has been walking me through a few things and I'll probably wind up bringing him in to clean things up and maybe even adding some RAM when I get a few shekels to rub together.

trowa June 9 2008, 16:03:41 UTC

I've never used Geek Squad, but everyone I know who has, had nothing but terrible problems with them. From what they told me, they're less than worthless and can't diagnose even the most basic problems. In one case, all they needed was a new power supply, but were told the whole computer was dead and they needed to get a new one.

For anti-virus, I use Trend Micro, haven't had a problem with it yet, but I'm also very careful about my browser settings. I only use Firefox, never IE, and clean my computer regularly with AdAware(Spybot is comparable)