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[daveredfern]

Hi,

I have been running AVG on my PC and lately I haven't been very impressed and it has been missing some viruses.

Can anyone recommend some software (free or paid) which has a antivirus, anti-spyware and some sort of repair scanning in which doesn't slow your pc down much.

i have had a look around and found mcafee and system mechanic. are theses any good and can anyone recommend any others?

cheers
dave.

[Koopa]

Kaspersky Anti-Virus is very good twinned with Spybot for spyware.

[daveredfern]

that is the one they distribute with system mechanic. isn't it?

i found this aswell - http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...lance&n=300435

has anyone ever used it?

[hekwu]

Keep what you have... but purchase virtual pc 2004 to download whatever you are downloading into that. With virtual pc you can download your music, porn, freeware, testware, iso files, ect into that and delete it once you are done... your pc is protected.

If the virus is getting in through email, get an email program that has spyware built into the system.

I love to test programs (many by not-so-reputable vendors) and vpc was a godsend. Time to start looking at "actions" instead of "this or that" is not protecting me....

[chenster000]

Honestly... if you have at least 512 mb ram, I would recommend that you go with Norton... I'm currently running their entire line, and its like a brick wall... a lot of sites that I didn't think would have spyware or any other automatic download and installs got blocked out by the filters. Its really effective if your computer can handle it.

[theqase]

http://www.my-etrust.com/microsoft/ It is free for the first year.



In regards to:

Keep what you have... but purchase virtual pc 2004 to download whatever you are downloading into that. With virtual pc you can download your music, porn, freeware, testware, iso files, ect into that and delete it once you are done... your pc is protected.

Check out http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/s...s/default.mspx

If you are advanced and are comfortable partitioning your hard drive, you could do that. It discards all changes made to a computer upon restart. You can specify a section of the drive that remains the same (for like documents and whatnot) but all installs and changes get discarded. And when you want to make and save a change, you can flip a switch, make the change, and restart, then its locked again. Its really not for personal computer use more for Shared Access (like its really for), but in the event of testing things its nice to have, because you can test it, and restart and your computer is back to normal.