emanatlarge
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WHILE i JUST BROUGHT A NEW COMPUTER, WHAT IS THE BEST SPY WARE OR VIRUS PROTECTION PROGRAM TO DELETE DIRTY SITE OR TO SPEED UP INTERNET PROCESSES. THANKS IN ADVANCE
Virus Protect Programs
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The program to choose will depend whether you plan on retail or freewares. For an excellent retail product for virus protection go for Trend Micro's line of antivirus software that also features adware/spyware removal tools. For a few good freewares AVG by Grisoft along with Lavasoft's Ad-Aware and the more recent Spyware Terminator work well together. Spybot Search&Destroy also make a favored list. Avast is another free antivirus tool as well as WIN AntiVIR and a few others. Norton and McAfee drop below the quality list.
For cleaning up the offline content and removing all traces of IE activity one free tool comes to mind called Evidence Nuker. You can find that at http://www.evidencenuker.com/eula/
Besides antivirus and adware/spyware removers having a half way decent firewall can be a plus. The two freewares in mind are Commodo and Jetico at the links here, For Commodo go to http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/ and for a look at Jetico, http://www.jetico.com/ Other then that any other discussion of certain topics regarding certain sites is banned in the forum rules. Be advised there.
The program to choose will depend whether you plan on retail or freewares. For an excellent retail product for virus protection go for Trend Micro's line of antivirus software that also features adware/spyware removal tools. For a few good freewares AVG by Grisoft along with Lavasoft's Ad-Aware and the more recent Spyware Terminator work well together. Spybot Search&Destroy also make a favored list. Avast is another free antivirus tool as well as WIN AntiVIR and a few others. Norton and McAfee drop below the quality list.
For cleaning up the offline content and removing all traces of IE activity one free tool comes to mind called Evidence Nuker. You can find that at http://www.evidencenuker.com/eula/
Besides antivirus and adware/spyware removers having a half way decent firewall can be a plus. The two freewares in mind are Commodo and Jetico at the links here, For Commodo go to http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/ and for a look at Jetico, http://www.jetico.com/ Other then that any other discussion of certain topics regarding certain sites is banned in the forum rules. Be advised there.
emanatlarge
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Thanks for the info! I use a e-machines computer and McAfee is automatically installed on to it. Good to know it is below the standard rating! And ill try using the lower case letters more often.
bluedishwasher
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ive had good experiences with NOD32 and PANDA and AVG, AVG is free but you will have to pay for the others
For retail I favor Trend Micro's antivirus software along with their free online system scanner known as House Call. AVG also has a professional retail version that probably has some other features there while the free version sees a new build on a regular basis. But the writers of adwares and spywares know all too well how to get past the programs that have been out for any good period of time. Being familiar with several plus special removers is a key.