blonde poker forum

My Norton anti-virus has just run out a few days ago, and I'm just wondering if the free stuff is trustworthy.

Or do I have to fork out another forty sovs. to be secure ?

I'm not a fan of Norton at all.

I'd recommend NOD32, which is about £27 a year.

I've never used the free ones so I can't comment, but many people do and are happy so I'm sure someone will have a recommendation.

i use nortons it is system hungrey but its secure

but its like mircosoft as the brand leader its the favourite for hackers to attack

personal AV isnt something i would use a freeware version of as i want a team working on new attacks before they happen rather than a couple of days after

I use EZ Antivirus, it's simple, it's effective and it's free.

I use Avast never had any problems.. got it setup on my old mans pc whos mrs's kids dl all kinda crap its caught at least  30-40 trojans :)

Its Also FREEE

Its Also something a pirate says!!!!!!!!!!!!

WIN WIN

www.avast.com

whaton earth are they dl to get 30-40 trojans

i havent even had 30-40 spyware attacks more like 3-4 and used to goto some real dodegy sites

Somethings wrong with my google, i looked up "jungle tunes from the 90s" and went into loads of the sites that the list populated.

On one my computer starting running slowly all sorts of pop ups from other online record stores popped up and my avg kept popping up: threat detected: heal, send to vault ect, i kept pressing heal and then came out of the site but yesterday i googled sky tv and totesport and both times instead of taking me to the site it took me to some dodgy search engine.

I ran a full scan on my computer and it detected nothing and said my computer was clean so whats wrong with my search engine and how can i rectify this?

same problem here , if I try to go to any site through google I get hijacked to some dodgy search page. I have to go through favourites. I have ran all the spyware stuff and found nothing Any ideas?

I use the Free AVG anti-virus and anti-spyware, it has found alot of spyware that Norton and adware failed to find!

I'd advise downloadng the free Nod32 trial and redownloading it once the 30 days is up.

I 2nd avast as a good choice. I think AVG is rubbish, it missed several viruses.

You can go to trend micro's website and run their in browser scan called housecall. Trend micro are the forefront of AV.. they supply network AV systems to large corporations and such. Their online scan takes a while but is very good. You can use it to check up on your free AV, obviously you don't have a real time monitor when using their online scanner but it depends how many suspect files you are downloading and such. For a long time I just visited the housecall site regularly with no annoying, bloated anti-virus software installed. http://housecall.trendmicro.com/housecall/start_frame.asp

Avast just runs in the background, no pop-ups unless it finds something. It has options for instant messaging, p2p, email, etc and they are easy to turn off if you don't want them. The only pop-up it does is when it downlaods a new virus database, reassuring for some and you can turn that off easily too.

Avast is free, you need to register to get a code so that you can use it for a year, this is just a case of inputting your name and email address. Then copy and past the code from the email into avast.

I use avast one one pc and AVG on another, never had a problem with either.

Free is good.

IMHO the AVG free anti virus is by far the best out there and has no impact on your systems performance, unlike Norton. Trend Micro was the first anti virus I had on my first PC but it let a virus through undetected and I lost all my data.

Do share

most are now reduntant

Why is my google fu***D please?

Thanks a lot for all the help guys.

good chance you have spyware bolt you need to do a spyware scan on your pc i prefer spyware doctor others have there only prefrences

Your browser is probably hijacked. Try running hosuecall tonight when you go off to bed, it will take several hourse to complete. It may sort it out completely.

Are you using internet explorer, do you get the same happening with firefox?

I cut about a minute off the bootup time of a mate's PC by switching Norton to NOD32.

I use AVG, but may change having read this thread. Keep your windows and Internet Explorer up to date. Do not run unlicensed software especially Operating Systems. Be careful with Peer to Peer. Be careful of lyrics sites. Do not open unsolicited emails.
Yahoo toolbar antispy is ok as well.
With the amount of free stuff about, i'd be hard pushed to fork out 40 quid for antivirus, especially if it messes with my system and connection like Norton did.

Used to run Norton on two computers and initially thought it excellent but ultimately it seemed to screw both of them.

Seems fine when running well but is a nightmare when it goes wrong and twice I've had to totally reload everything from scratch to resolve issues.

Now run AVG antivirus (free) and AVG antispyware ( not free but worth it ) with assistance from Spysweeper, Spyware blaster, Adaware and Spybot and, touch wood, no problems since.

Sounds like the infection I had a few months back where the first few Google searches would also redirect to a site other than that indicated by the search.  Most of the time seemed to redirct to other search engine type sites.

Anyway was a real pain to get rid of.  AVG antispyware picked it up and partially removed it but I remember having to download something called Killbox which zaps individual files.  May also be worth downloading Hijackthis, which takes a snapshot of processes on your system, and then posting a log from that on a PC forum.

Just checked my quarantine logs and the offending spyware that caused it for me was trojan.small.fb and downloader.agent.uj if that helps.

One tip is that when you run your anti spyware to do it after booting in safe mode because these ones were also hiding in system restore files and will just come back if you scan in normal mode.

yeh as keithy said go to hijackthis and do a full scan, it involves a lot of stuff but is designed to detect malware so do the preparation, do the scan then post your log file on the forum and someone should help. not a guaranteed success but im sure you will get to the root of the problem by doing this.

I'd said better advice would be not to use IE in the first place!

/:-| Yes, of course, ;)

I love the way the illegal copies try to faithfully replicate everything on the original, including 'Do not make illegal copies of this disk'.

A mate installed a erm copy of Win XP only to find it kinda was WinXP but with an entirely new bit of code 'silkroped' into it. Kept reformatting hard drive and reinstalling windows, durr...

Overall, a great idea to
1. Partition your hard drive
2. Put windows only in one bit, all your other stuff in another
3. Use a CD/DVD writer to backup the documents you really need on a monthlyish basis.
If it all goes tits up you can always just reformat one partition and pull what you need from CD DVD and save a million hours trying to 'weed the garden' so to speak.

Oh yeah, and if my antivir results come back positive, especially for trojans, after the cleanup I change all my critical passwords, especially my poker ones. Also I dye my hair and grow a beard in case they have stolen my identity. 

I use Kaspersky, and have done so for a few years.