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Posted: **Wed Jul 30, 08 4:44 am**

So ye.. i have lots of viruses in my Real PC..

Tell me what is suitable with AVG or so.. Tell me which dont conflict together..

All i want to know is a best personal firewall And another great scanner than AVG..

Can anyone help me out there?

Thanks xD

Posted: **Wed Jul 30, 08 6:28 am**

I use AVG, Spybot - Search & Destroy and Lavasoft's Ad-Aware.

AVG has scheduled scans and I believe Ad-Aware does too, not sure about Spybot though. I don't think it does as I've never been able to.

Posted: **Wed Jul 30, 08 8:14 am**

And any personal firewall? =D

Posted: **Wed Jul 30, 08 8:37 am**

Eh, well I use Vista so it's a bit harder to come by a decent one. I've used several. Ashampoo Firewall, McAfee Firewall and currently, I'm using COMODO Firewall. It's alright and it works.

Posted: **Wed Jul 30, 08 12:03 pm**

If you already have viruses, you should reinstall Windows and THEN start thinking about anti virus softwares

Posted: **Wed Jul 30, 08 12:39 pm**

DeathMaster wrote:If you already have viruses, you should reinstall Windows and THEN start thinking about anti virus softwares

idd

Anyway, I go with this combination NOD32 + Spyware Doctor, and my router of course, has a firewall.

Posted: **Wed Jul 30, 08 12:47 pm**

DeathMaster wrote:If you already have viruses, you should reinstall Windows and THEN start thinking about anti virus softwares

Yeah. he's not wrong there. Even if the scanners removed all traces of spyware and viruses you wouldn't be able to tell that.

And question: How did you manage to infect your computer with viruses in the first place?

Posted: **Wed Jul 30, 08 2:39 pm**

I also use AVG.

It's great.

Posted: **Wed Jul 30, 08 3:17 pm**

AVG actually is really good for a free virus scanner. It's pretty small but incredibly simple. I actually believe that there is some free virus/spyware scanners out there that are generally, much better than a lot of professional ones (ones you pay a subscription to use).

To me, most aren't as bulky and are straight to the point.

Posted: **Wed Jul 30, 08 7:28 pm**

~Psychotic~ wrote:
DeathMaster wrote:If you already have viruses, you should reinstall Windows and THEN start thinking about anti virus softwares

Yeah. he's not wrong there. Even if the scanners removed all traces of spyware and viruses you wouldn't be able to tell that.

And question: How did you manage to infect your computer with viruses in the first place?

Downloading illegal stuff... (Torrents)

The torrent itself was a trojan + i had no virus scanner installed... And i clicked it.. Bang..

It was Sony vegas lol...

Well.. i use Norton 2008. So will AVG conflict with it?

Posted: **Wed Jul 30, 08 7:56 pm**

AVG is a a brilliant piece of kit, i have Kaspersky AntiVirus version 7 isntalled which is the best i'd say of all xD :wink:

Posted: **Wed Jul 30, 08 9:07 pm**

~DJ~ wrote:Norton 2008.

Norton Antivirus / Internet Security is another definition of shit.

Posted: **Wed Jul 30, 08 9:18 pm**

Dae wrote:
~DJ~ wrote:Norton 2008.

Norton Antivirus / Internet Security is another definition of shit.

It took over my laptop and turned it to shit.

With it's Email proxy.

Posted: **Wed Jul 30, 08 9:31 pm**

First time I got it my internet didn't work, then I deleted it... and it worked :bounce:

Posted: **Wed Jul 30, 08 9:52 pm**

Dextruktor wrote:First time I got it my internet didn't work, then I deleted it... and it worked

YEAH THE INTERNET ON MY LAPTOP DOESN'T WORK

AND I CAN'T UNINSTALL NORTON WITHOUT THE CD

:@:@:@

Posted: **Wed Jul 30, 08 9:55 pm**

cataclyzm wrote:
Dextruktor wrote:First time I got it my internet didn't work, then I deleted it... and it worked

YEAH THE INTERNET ON MY LAPTOP DOESN'T WORK

AND I CAN'T UNINSTALL NORTON WITHOUT THE CD

:@:@:@

I soooo understand your rage.

Posted: **Wed Jul 30, 08 9:56 pm**

GOOGLE!!

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/tsgeninfo.nsf/docid/2005033108162039

Posted: **Wed Jul 30, 08 11:14 pm**

While Norton didn't find anything, AdAware SE Pro found 726 viruses.

Posted: **Wed Jul 30, 08 11:47 pm**

On my laptop I have Zone Alarm

On my main computer I have KasperSky 7 (As Zonealarm doesn't work on 64bit).

Either crack them or pay for them. xD

Posted: **Thu Jul 31, 08 1:33 am**

ZoneAlarm + Bt fucks up, that's why i wasn't on the net for about a week before...

Posted: **Sun Aug 10, 08 11:26 pm**

What about "Avast!"

Posted: **Sun Aug 10, 08 11:33 pm**

~Fuzzycows~ wrote:What about "Avast!"

at least, I've never heard bad things about it

Posted: **Sun Aug 10, 08 11:56 pm**

my comp came with NORTON.

Posted: **Mon Aug 11, 08 12:44 am**

venom wrote:my comp came with NORTON.

Get rid of, if you haven't already. It's poison.

It thought SA:MP was a virus!

Posted: **Mon Aug 11, 08 9:57 am**

For moi:

-Spybot Search & Destroy (Brilliantly effective & free, no excuse!)
-Lavasoft Ad-Aware (Annoyingly limited free version, still effective though)
-Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2009 (Expensive but IMO the best)

Don't use a personal firewall, as I'm behind a router and never have more than the bare minimum of ports open, also AFAIK UDP ports are less likely to get scanned for by hackers. Besides, my router forwards incoming connections to my old machine (which has XP SP3, always updated, and runs XP firewall), and that in turn forwards to my new machine (which is the one I care about).

If I was to recommend freebies, based on what I've installed on my dad's old PC for him, I'd probably say:

-AVG 8.0 Free Edition (it works, not too much of a resource hog either)
-Spybot
-XP Firewall (or vista I dunno don't use it yet)
-Get behind a firewalled router if ya can, and don't open ports unnecessarily.

Deus Ex Alpha

Firewalls, Scanners.

Firewalls, Scanners.