Free Antivirus Programs?
Apr 23, 2007
I am using AntiVir Guard, is there something else more reliable?I am just curious on what anyone can suggest.I used to use McAfee, but then a common problem that a lot of people have been getting apparently. So it not only crashed my pc when it went out of whack it got so bad that i couldn't even get to the uninstall menu, it would kinda show...so i finally had formated my main hard drive, and completely wiped it out and fixed it. So for now I am just using a nice free antivirus program...Does anyone have a suggestion of maybe a safer one? Maybe something that would pick up on more virus protection.
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May 11, 2010
What are the best free antivirus programs you can install on your computer? And does it also protect from other dangers i.e. worms, Trojans ?
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Mar 13, 2005
I have a client that for some reason AVG will not update except manually going to the grisoft site and downloading the update. I have tried every thing including installing from a CD, Installing from the Grisoft website, updating manually, and for some reason the AVG update manager will not work. Can someone recommend another Free Antivirus that is as easy to use and as automatic as AVG is, that I can install on her computer. This is an elderly woman that needs things as simple as possible. She can be taught to follow prompts but I would like to keep things as easy as possible. for example I send her emails regularly to remind her to run Adaware and Spybot,
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Sep 24, 2010
When running a full scan it stalls at E:SMRTNTKYDEVICE The magnifying glass still runs, but the files stop. Any idea why ?
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May 18, 2008
hi guys,i run avg free v 7.5,yesterday i found out that the updates for it finish on 31st may,i was so upset as i think it is marvellous,my daughter recommended avast v. 4.8 with the free registration ,is it any good for the xp pc,
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Feb 21, 2007
is it possible to ignore a file in AVG antivirus free (i think it's because i have changed the theme)
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Jan 26, 2007
Running: Zone Alarm Firewall free edition. AVG Antivirus Free Edition Spybot Search and Destroy Free Edition anti Spyware Ad-Aware free edition anti adware Spyware Blaster spyware preventer? I have no problem running these Apps on my 3.2ghz p4 w/ 1gb of ram.
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Feb 20, 2006
My problems with win98 are a thing of the past.I still have to install all of the previous programs.Just got WinXP installed with AMD Athlon XP 1800+ and 512 Mb RAM.I am gonna do read the walk through, the help section but is there anything i need to do first. The XP firewall is on so does this means that i no longer need Zone Alarm?However, there is no Antivirus. I previously used Norton.I figure I'd download another free Norton version later. XP had some recommendations but which should i choose?http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/viruses/wsc/en-us/default.mspx.There's a free 1 year trial with Computer Associates but I'm not familiar with them.
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Sep 28, 2006
1) By mistake i uninstalled the AVG free Antivirus Installed at my system, Since than i am unable to re-install it. Every time I try it, it shows an error report:Local machine: installation failed
Installation:Error: Action failed for file avg7dos.lng: creating file....Changing language to 67698688 failed
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Jun 24, 2007
Looking for a simple virus scan that does not have all of those little programs and safe guards that run in the background. I'm just looking for something I can run once a month or so to make sure I don't have a virus or spyware est.
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Jan 1, 2006
because both Windows (XP) and Internet Explorer have really slowed down during the last several days. I have updated and used AVG, Spybot S&D and Webroot's Spy Sweeper but have found no virus or spyware infestation.
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Apr 28, 2006
Useing windows XP, SP2 lots of ram. Have both AVG anti-virus and also Avast anti-virus plus a CCleaner. Run one program one week, run other program next week.Run CCleaner every week. My question is" is there any advantage to use these programs in a "safe mode" instead as a normal program.And if so, whats the advanatge?
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Mar 21, 2008
This is prob an oldie you get sick of answering, but I've tried to use my windows xp discs to reformat my sony laptop to get rid of everything. The problem is things like Norton antivirus and other programs stay on there. How can I get rid of everythingand start from scratch?
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Sep 1, 2009
It got infected with Windows Police Pro. After disabling that, there are several 'remnants' left over. The only way I can run any spyware/malware removal programs is to install it fresh. The program(s) will open, then it'll shut down 2 seconds into the scan. It even shuts down my registry cleaner as soon as it begins to clean (after it finds all the errors). All these programs simply terminate themselves. It does this in SafeMode as well.
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Apr 16, 2005
my c drive is 4 gig i have 2.4 gig installed on it yet xp tells me i only have 250 meg of free space not the 1 plus gig i should have have deleted temp files, rubbish, uninstalled programes no longer needed still get the same answer
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Jan 30, 2006
does anybody know why i have 1.10 GB free space in Safe Mode and 804 MB free space in Normal? thanks. and i know that 804 MB free space isnt alot, this is a pretty small harddrive from what the computer says it is .
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Apr 15, 2006
Other than the 3 computers in my signature, (If you count the PPC), I have another, older, Desktop. A Dell Dimesnion. P II 387 Mhz, 97 MB RAM, 8 MB Video It is running Windows XP. I have all the visual displays turned doen and it is adjusted for best performance
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Jun 29, 2006
I currently have 13.0 GB of used space and 5.58 GB of free space. I would like to get more free space.
My computer is about 2 years old. In those two years, I had to re-install Windows XP and everything else on my computer...for reasons unknown...I recently performed a New Installation of Windows XP on my computer. I don't have alot of things installed on my computer. The total space all the programs in my Add and Remove programs file takes up is only 1GB. Since I had to start over and re-install everything and my programs only add up to 1GB, Shouldn't I have more free space ?
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Jun 5, 2005
I was checking my daughters pc for some usual maintenance. The start programs on list suddenly dont open, computer freezes up, did the error-checking but I cannot seem to get some vital prgrams to open up. I am running a couple of recent worm tools from Symantec and so far, nothing. Could this be a hardware problem or can someone tell me something I am missing?
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Feb 18, 2009
i have windows xo sp3.i had avira antivir premium installed on my PC. then i installed mcafee 8.5i. i updated the same to the latest version but my windows security alert keeps on telling me that you have no antivirus installed on your pc.it doesnt detect it at all.then again i removed it and again installed avira but still the system is showing the same security alert.
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Jan 25, 2006
I am stingy and don't want to get another antivirus subscription for my gaming set up that i just built. How can i configure so that antivirus software in my current computer will reliably protect my gaming set up when logged on the net.
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Oct 25, 2009
please help me find a best antivirus for my laptop
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Jun 19, 2005
I am trying to decide to use either Grisoft's AVG AntiVirus (Free version) or
AVAST AntiVirus. Which of these two are better?
I had Norton AntiVirus 2004 Professional on my system, but Symantec refuses
to reactivate it. I had a computer replaced (case/power supply, motherboard,
and UPS) due to a lightning strike and now I cannot reactivate or use Norton
AntiVirus 2004.
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Aug 2, 2010
just got rid of mcafee and dont know what to get in its place will post a log if need be
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Oct 6, 2008
I reinstalled Windows XP. For some reason, all of my old programs show up in Windows Explorer, but not in the Start Menu or in Control Panel/Add Remove Programs. Is there a way to fix this?
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Feb 23, 2008
Why does my Anti Virus say put in Vault, when it picks up a virus, instead of Delete?
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Aug 1, 2005
I am running win xp pro sp2 and have just installed norton antivirus 2005. NAV recommends i use it instead of windows for my default firewall protection. should i turn off the windows firewall and rely just on the norton antivirus, which checks for worms, trojan horeses, etc by default or run both
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Jul 19, 2009
I've gone through all the microsoft fixes(??) and they haven't worked. Also, when I try to hibernate the machine if any programs are running it will say I don't have enough memory (I have 2GB in a Gateway 506GR, Pentium 4, 3400 Mhz running XP Home Edition). I run NOD32 antivirus.
The machine seems like it is running hard all the time but the CPU usage is usually only around 2 or 3 %. I'm thinking about putting in a larger hard drive and starting over completely. I backup pretty well (although not always often enough).
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Nov 14, 2007
i got and error in my Mcaffe that asked my to reinstall the program, I've tried but always got an error.I've tried to install "sSpybot - Search & Destroy" the installation was good but i as i wanted to run the program i got "seraching for SpybotSD.exe" box Msg. , i checked the folder and nothing, not EXE file downloaded it againg and install it againg and nothing..I've ran the windows repair stuff "sfc /scannow" and nothing really cheanged, and "ad-aware" didnt find anyhthing as well.so right now i cant install any program - always the EXE is been deleted and cant run the anti-virus program as well?
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Mar 5, 2009
I have McAfee antivirus , while try to install in windows xp , it says " no network connectivity" eventhough my network connection is alive.
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Dec 5, 2005
I need some real help here because I am baffled. I installed Panda Titanium antivirus 2005 on my bosses computer. When I went to restart it after the install it wouldn't restart it would get stuck at the blue welcome screen. Tried booting it into safe mode and it wouldn't even boot there. So finally I had to use the Windows XP disk and do a recovery. Well when I did that she lost all of her applications. I had to reload Office, Adobe, and it said that the Panda Antivirus was not installed correctly.So I tired to reinstall it and I get an error of Class not registered.I hoping not to have to do format and reinstall Windows Xp but I think there is some corruption in the computer.
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