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  • #1

    Keeping Cpu Safe & Clean

    Any ideas?

    As in whats the best anti virus
    most reliable progs?
    Positive vibes, positive taught
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    Re: Keeping Cpu Safe & Clean

    I use the free AVG antivirus on my personal windows machines. I don't run anything special on my linux (ubuntu) machines. I have a basic firewall on my router at home. Once in a while I'll run SpyBot to check for spyware. I am in general pretty careful on what I run on my PCs so I haven't really had a trouble with a virus or spyware other than the crap that was spreading a while back through just windows RPC vulnerabilities (was like 4 or 5 years ago ... Melisa?)

    Of course there could be stuff running on my pc that I don't know about
    this post = teh win.

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    • #3
      Re: Keeping Cpu Safe & Clean

      me too, the avg is very good and has almost daily updates. in the past I used bitdefender but the avg is much more performant

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      • #4
        Re: Keeping Cpu Safe & Clean

        I use a combination of:

        SuperAntiSpyware (great free utility to start off with)
        Spybot
        Highjack This
        BruteforceUninstaller + Alcanshorty.bfu
        Uniblue Powersuite (an essential of mine)
        Advanced WindowsCare V2 Pro (quite handy)
        Kelly's Corner registry fixes (against nasty viruses that ruin your interface) - http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp.htm

        I loath AVG and all the standard anti-spyware that come with your computers, they are weak in detecting the real xxxx that infects most computers overtime. I haven't needed to reformat my computer in over two years because I kept it clean with the utilities I listed before. My computer works perfectly and I've learned a lot about the software and registry through my active approach in keeping it clean. The only problem I have these days is finding out where a DNS changer trojan is coming from that infects my computer every couple of days. I have to go into the registry using regedit and delete a couple of keys to get rid of it. I wish I could just block it from the start but I don't know how.

        Also, if you have a virus that blocks your desktop and start button, navigate using the browse feature in your task bar. Also, I encourage you to load windows under safe mode when your computer is acting funny, it blocks a lot of the things malware and trojans like to mess with and gives more of the corrupted interface make to your hands.

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        • #5
          Re: Keeping Cpu Safe & Clean

          I use Trend Micro and am very happy with it... takes care of all that stuff and updates multiple times a day for maximum protection.
          [COLOR=#4b0082][B][SIZE=4][FONT=trebuchet ms]“If you think you can, or you can’t, you’re right.”
          -Henry Ford[/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/COLOR]

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          • #6
            Re: Keeping Cpu Safe & Clean

            quote jgk3
            The only problem I have these days is finding out where a DNS changer trojan is coming from that infects my computer every couple of days
            unquote
            with the avg I don't have this problem either

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            • #7
              Re: Keeping Cpu Safe & Clean

              you think you don't have the problems I notice because it doesn't turn up on the avg virus scan :P But chances are you won't have the DNS changer problem, it's kind of rare.

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              • #8
                Re: Keeping Cpu Safe & Clean

                you might be right, but asdvaz chene if this occurs then I have several references to refer to -mean the antiviruses installed by you

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                • #9
                  Re: Keeping Cpu Safe & Clean

                  precisely

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                  • #10
                    Re: Keeping Cpu Safe & Clean

                    AVG free here. I think it works fine.

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