Fatcatsplat Posted November 3, 2010 Report Share Posted November 3, 2010 My computer says i have some horrible viruses to kill and the nice people at mcafee and norton can help but want money to sort them out for me - i'm happy to do this, but do not want to enter my financial details into the computer right now just in case they get copied or whatever by the nasty bugs that i have - can anyone recommend a nice free download that can sort me out in the interim please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy. Posted November 4, 2010 Report Share Posted November 4, 2010 AVG. I'm keen to know what's telling you that you have a virus, if you don't have virus protection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tel Time Posted November 4, 2010 Report Share Posted November 4, 2010 AVG, take the freebie one, just as good as the paid for one, norton is a pile of **** Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacksdad Posted November 4, 2010 Report Share Posted November 4, 2010 A Virus warning Virus that you have to pay and it then removes itself Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatcatsplat Posted November 4, 2010 Author Report Share Posted November 4, 2010 AVG. I'm keen to know what's telling you that you have a virus, if you don't have virus protection. the mcafee and norton bits that keep saying please renew your subscription which i hadn't - ho hum!!! thanks lads Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy. Posted November 4, 2010 Report Share Posted November 4, 2010 the mcafee and norton bits that keep saying please renew your subscription which i hadn't - ho hum!!! thanks lads I doubt you'll actually have a virus and it's not like McA or Norton to say you've got one, just because your subscription ran out. Usually it's an application which pretends to be a virus scanner, telling you that you have a terrible computer threatening virus and that you need to buy their software to get rid of it, when there's no virus at all. Whilst you're downloading AVG, search for AdAware and download their free software. It'll make sure your computer is ridden of Spyware, which I can guarantee you will have on your machine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ME Posted November 4, 2010 Report Share Posted November 4, 2010 Whilst you're downloading AVG, search for AdAware Tut, tut, we wont tell Mrs FCS what a mucky boy you have been As per Billy above, I have both on all my home and work PC's. Mung introduced me a few years ago to doing regular Windows updates, running C Cleaner and regular defrags of my hard drive too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egg Posted November 4, 2010 Report Share Posted November 4, 2010 Another vote for AVG - been using it for 8 years and I've been virus free all of them. Best anti-virus in the world? Jus be careful about what you download really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discreet hunter Posted November 4, 2010 Report Share Posted November 4, 2010 AVG............AVG.............FREE VERSION....will be fine, IGNORE the rest........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scamp Posted November 4, 2010 Report Share Posted November 4, 2010 Comodo, it's free, works a treat, used it a few years now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garymc Posted November 4, 2010 Report Share Posted November 4, 2010 Another vote for AVG free - also worth looking at the anti-spyware app as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_b_wales Posted November 4, 2010 Report Share Posted November 4, 2010 Malawarebytes.com is another brilliant free anti virus program. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter_zero Posted November 4, 2010 Report Share Posted November 4, 2010 I used to be an advocate of AVG which is still very good but now use Avast, which I find to be excellent and the female voice is very reasuring John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdubya Posted November 4, 2010 Report Share Posted November 4, 2010 Another vote for AVG - been using it for 8 years and I've been virus free all of them. Best anti-virus in the world? Jus be careful about what you download really. trouble is viruses are about in surprisingly innocent web sites the last trojan that I got which was key logger asking me to pay for security update which fortunately I did not click on or try to close was spotted but not stopped (avg shifted it but took half my start up files with it?) was obtained from a site promoting river trips in memphis not your usual snow white and the seven big lads sites. I got rid of avg and paid for nod32 to now it seems worth every penny . KW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Q West Posted November 4, 2010 Report Share Posted November 4, 2010 Avast for me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RArch Posted November 4, 2010 Report Share Posted November 4, 2010 Avast for me Same here, have used AVG in the past too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twitchynik Posted November 4, 2010 Report Share Posted November 4, 2010 Download McAfee's Stinger tool (free) and give that a good run on your computer. That will pick up and remove most nasty stuff. Once that's done you can proceed with getting whatever AV toolset you want whether that be free or paid. http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silver pigeon 3 Posted November 4, 2010 Report Share Posted November 4, 2010 Hi mate go onto majorgeeks.com, all the free ware you need Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacksdad Posted November 4, 2010 Report Share Posted November 4, 2010 I've tried Malaware, AVG, Adaware plus a few others, plus I had a paid for Webroot Spysweeper that I've now cancelled, as my laptop has got a virus thing I cannot shift! Every time I google an address or even just open this site, I get redirected to loads of different sites, such as AskJeeves, Amazon, Ebay and other search sites, some of which cannot be removed and I have to close the internet and start again..its Pi@@@@g me off royal now, I nearly threw the laptop at the wall yesterday..really How do I get rid pleeesss Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egg Posted November 4, 2010 Report Share Posted November 4, 2010 trouble is viruses are about in surprisingly innocent web sites the last trojan that I got which was key logger asking me to pay for security update which fortunately I did not click on or try to close was spotted but not stopped (avg shifted it but took half my start up files with it?) was obtained from a site promoting river trips in memphis not your usual snow white and the seven big lads sites. I got rid of avg and paid for nod32 to now it seems worth every penny . KW My mouse-clicking finger's also my trigger finger: I've got it trained never to click or squeeze unless I'm 100% certain nod32's a good one - light on the system as is Avast! - but it costs money... Norton & McAfee are just bloatware, bundled with a pile of crappy add-on's. Total resource hogs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twitchynik Posted November 4, 2010 Report Share Posted November 4, 2010 How do I get rid pleeesss Give Stinger a go. That will clean up a lot of stuff. Doesn't take much to download, install and set it going. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Budice Posted November 4, 2010 Report Share Posted November 4, 2010 I use Avast on a coupe of machines and Avira antivirus on another couple no complaints about either also use MalwareBytes and Spybot Search & Destroy and all machines have been trouble free. (touch wood lol) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy. Posted November 4, 2010 Report Share Posted November 4, 2010 I've tried Malaware, AVG, Adaware plus a few others, plus I had a paid for Webroot Spysweeper that I've now cancelled, as my laptop has got a virus thing I cannot shift!Every time I google an address or even just open this site, I get redirected to loads of different sites, such as AskJeeves, Amazon, Ebay and other search sites, some of which cannot be removed and I have to close the internet and start again..its Pi@@@@g me off royal now, I nearly threw the laptop at the wall yesterday..really How do I get rid pleeesss Time to change your browser. firefox.com http://www.apple.com/safari/download/ http://www.google.com/chrome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norrie Posted November 4, 2010 Report Share Posted November 4, 2010 Malawarebytes.com is another brilliant free anti virus program. Yep, totally agree, that and AVG, and you'll be sorted... BTW, You have a PM... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norrie Posted November 4, 2010 Report Share Posted November 4, 2010 Time to change your browser. firefox.com http://www.apple.com/safari/download/ http://www.google.com/chrome Sorry, forget changing your browser...it attacks all of them, jumps from one to another....it attacks your PC, and gets onto all browsers... Go here as I did, http://www.myantispyware.com/2008/11/05/ho...trojan-tdsserv/ Follow the info, download the TDSS removal software, and hey presto...all gone... It's actually Kaspersky that does the "hit"...very good too,. This is the bit you want... Use the following instructions to remove TDSS, Backdoor.Tidserv, Alureon trojan. Download TDSSKiller from here and unzip to your desktop. Any probs, PM me..I'll try and help you through it..I know how annoying that redirect is... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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