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Its not exactly in a bad state, still useable, just really slow/tempramental..

Would be nice to get it back to what it was like when it was new..

The hard drive atm is 236GB, and is 80% free i think.

[Dave20046]

Originally Posted by appollo1

I hope this is genuine as my puter is really slow at the moment so will give this a go.

malware bites is the best malware killer available IMO

[Dave20046]

Originally Posted by saoralba

Its not exactly in a bad state, still useable, just really slow/tempramental..

Would be nice to get it back to what it was like when it was new..

The hard drive atm is 236GB, and is 80% free i think.

get rid of norton it's be like new

Really?
Is it that bad?

Why is my Dad paying some this sh!te if you can get better free?

[fizzwheel]

Norton Anti-Virus has made every machine I've seen it installed on run like a bag of sh*te.

[Dave20046]

And you need a norton removal tool to get rid of the fecker. It's like a virus in itself, grabs hold and wrecks it. Ya dad's paying because people think they need to pay for quality, Grisoft's AVG 8 should do ya combined with a weekly scan or so of malware bytes. Online armour's a good idea for program/registry protection + firewall. perhaps overkill though.

[ethariel]

Get rid of norton to start with.

Download AVG as its a decent AV product for the price (ie free) - if you want to go the pay for route kaspersky or Sophos are quite reliable.

Dont forget to also download a firewall as norton probably does that too. Zone Alarm is an obvious choice (even tho its owned by some not so nice folks these days).

Just be carefull if you are running vista as Zone Alarm/AVG don't work together too well so Avast is another choice for Av in that case.

For malaware/spyware then Adaware is reasonably good tho i have no experience of the software at the start of the thread.

[Dave20046]

Originally Posted by ethariel

Get rid of norton to start with.

Download AVG as its a decent AV product for the price (ie free) - if you want to go the pay for route kaspersky or Sophos are quite reliable.

Dont forget to also download a firewall as norton probably does that too. Zone Alarm is an obvious choice (even tho its owned by some not so nice folks these days).

Just be carefull if you are running vista as Zone Alarm/AVG don't work together too well so Avast is another choice for Av in that case.

For malaware/spyware then Adaware is reasonably good tho i have no experience of the software at the start of the thread.

The software at the atart of the thread is better than adaware, far more thorough.
I've not had a good impression of sophos, kasperspy or Nod32 would be my recommended pay softwares.

Originally Posted by dizzyblonde

hmmmm got Nrton and its up in a day or two, want a free one this time as Norton is poo.

Any good ones to replace with? Is there anybody beside saorlba thats used the one in the link before I go playing with it?

Get AVG Free Dizzy, use it on all the windows PC's in the Service.
Steve

Originally Posted by Skip

I used to use AVG up until recently but havent been impressed with the amount of resources required by version 8. Kaspersky is meant to be one of the best ones out there but I just cant bring myself to part with money for AV software so I went back to Avast! which I had put on parents machine years ago and they have had no trouble with it.

Malwarebytes is good - I would recommend having AV software as well though.

Just my 2p...

Yeah, AVG V8.0 was chuggy at first & I clung onto V7.5 for six months, but V8 has settled down now, its fine.
Steve