Anti-Malware Help (Anti-Virus & AntiSpyware/Adware)

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 17 Feb 2006, 12:51

This could be one of the reasons why our PC runs pretty slowly at times

Is it worth downloading some free anti-spy/ad software to go with my Anti Virus program?

Are you supposed to run them at the same time you run the virus scan or separately?

Yi-Long · Post by **Yi-Long** » 17 Feb 2006, 13:05

Ow yeah, it's best of you have one or 2 spyware programs.
Just download Adaware en Spybot. I mostly use spybot.
You can just run the program at any time, it will take a few minutes to check everything, and you can fix found problems. Some spyware is very hard to remove though... so hopefully you wont be infected with any of those...

Also use a browser that's safe, like Avant.

IronMonkey · Post by **IronMonkey** » 17 Feb 2006, 13:15

Or Firefox.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 17 Feb 2006, 13:23

Is Spybot free, Yi?

Looks like it is.

Yi-Long · Post by **Yi-Long** » 17 Feb 2006, 13:26

yeah, its free
adaware as well

or else I wouldnt have recommended it

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 17 Feb 2006, 13:30

I've downloaded Spybot now.

Yi-Long · Post by **Yi-Long** » 17 Feb 2006, 13:45

grim_tales wrote:
I've downloaded Spybot now.

Great! want a cookie?

Seriously though, good luck, and hope it doesnt find too much junk...
Have you NEVER scanned for spyware? And you've used Explorer? Aye...

BTW, when your done and removed all the shit, go into ur browser and clean ur cookies and shit, then go after that defragmentate (english spelling?) ur HD

How much memory do u have in ur pc btw?

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 17 Feb 2006, 13:55

Mostly I use Firefox now

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 17 Feb 2006, 14:23

Or as some person on antoer forums said to me "wipe your drive clean and reinstall everything"

over kill or what!

Adware and Spybot are nice, I also use a few other programmes like 4diskclean, which also find all sorts and cleans up other parts and Tiny Disk Cleaner, which also does a job of wiping little things.

Yi-Long · Post by **Yi-Long** » 17 Feb 2006, 16:16

Let us know how it went btw.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 17 Feb 2006, 16:18

Its' gone fine

About 9000 bad products (?) were blocked and no infected stuff was found.

Yi-Long · Post by **Yi-Long** » 17 Feb 2006, 16:34

Nothing was even found? wow, thats amazing.

So I guess this means there must be another reason for your PC being slow at the moment?

gasteropod · Post by **gasteropod** » 17 Feb 2006, 17:02

Look at your task manager and see which programs are using the most 'Mem Usage'.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 17 Feb 2006, 17:30

Its' a nit quicker now, since I ate my cookies and drank my cache

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 17 Feb 2006, 17:37

EDIT: Now Spybot has found loads of crap, its' still running.

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 17 Feb 2006, 17:44

I have Adaware and some Cleaner product.

Both freeware of course...

They seem to do the job... nothing's crashed.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 18 Feb 2006, 17:33

Mark where can you get Adaware from or other anti-adware programs?

I'll download it to go with spybot.

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 18 Feb 2006, 19:01

Just search with Google. I don't know the URL.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 25 Feb 2008, 16:30

* AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 7.5.516 (Latest Version): http://free.grisoft.com/doc/5390/us/frt/0?prd=aff
* AVG Anti-Spyware Free Edition 7.5.1.43 (Latest Version): http://free.grisoft.com/doc/5390/us/frt/0?prd=asf

I've no idea how good AVG Anti-Spyware is compared against Spybot or Ad-aware. I don't use Free Security Software myself. I've found them all to be utter rubbish, many do run ZoneAlarm Free Edition fine though, so I could have just been unlucky with it (AVG on the other hand IMO is utter shite!).

I personally use Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0 (Anti-Virus, AntiSpyware and Firewall) and have found it by far the best product on the market. Before that I used ZoneAlarm Internet Security 7.0 and couldn't stand it (I can give some concessions to ZoneAlarm Free as it's Free). I ran Norton AntiVirus for years but found it way to resource hungry.

At the end of the day use which suits you best.

p.s - Remember you need a Software and/or Hardware Firewall too:

* Hardware Firewall: If you have a Router you'll have one.
* Software Firewall: ZoneAlarm Free Edition is the most popular and "probably" the best:

http://www.zonelabs.com/zadownload/

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 26 Feb 2008, 04:41

AVG is unreliable junk, you're doing nobody any favours by recommending it.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 26 Feb 2008, 04:46

Read what I actually said, I'm not

.

I'm just posting links to those who already run it. I've learnt not to bother telling people what security software they should run (unless they specifically ask). it just starts flame wars.

Also see here where I lay into AVG Free Edition (I've never used the Paid Edition to say for sure, but doubt it's much better):

https://www.bulletsnbabesdvd.com/forums/ ... php?t=1233

I'll amend my post though to be clearer.