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Ah, but I'll bet you had the Windows 95 version that came in a big yellow box... That was when Symantec laid their greasy little paws on it. I *hated* that version.taitou said:Pfffffffttt... it was a long time ago when norton was good.. I remember having it on my first PC (a Pentium 150Mhz..) and it was crap then, just slowed everything down, then crash/froze/blew up
AVG is a very good program, it's what almost everyone I know uses and indeed it's what my work use. Try and avoid installing more than one virus scanner though; it used to be and as far as I know still might be the case that they might detect each other's virus dictionaries as viruses...Rie said:Awwww!
Taken an hour so far to try and get rid of Norton, and still nowhere near gone :S Even task manager says not responding now Can't send e-mails, can hardly search web, surprised It's not crashing completely. I am in fact expecting it blow up or something.
Would AVG free version still protect or do I need to subscribe?
Rie, if you're going to do this, *PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU KNOW WHAT PROCESSES YOU'RE ENDING!!!!* Some processes with strange and cryptic names actually do very useful things. At the very least, you risk the system properly crashing; if you end a process that's halfway through writing something to disk, it won't be able to finish, and you risk doing strange things to the drive.noir2985 said:This probably isn't the best advice, but it's my method of getting rid of weird computer problems that won't go...Go into Task manager and look at the processes, then end any suspicious looking ones. Disclaimer: THIS MAY BREAK YOUR COMPUTER MORE
I did it once and it started working again, so I located the the processes that were dodgy and found that they were some sort of virus that I just deleted at the source.
FOLLOW THIS ADVICE AT YOUR OWN RISK.
Hope that helps.
http://www.majorgeeks.com/Doctor said:AVG got recomended on the Gadget Show along with Zone Alarm free firewall and Ad-aware for getting rid spy ware stuff. (Google for links - I'm feeling too lazy, sorry)
*Quote from mum* "Not only bus fare and cheese sandwiches, but also chocolate cake, Nobby's Nuts, mango, and manna from heaven! Seriously, I would be sooooo grateful!"Wookie said:If you pay my bus fare and keep me supplied with cups of tea and cheese sandwiches, I'll come round and have a look at it for yer
I Don't know what processes are important or not so i'm gonna leave them well alone.Wookie said:Rie, if you're going to do this, *PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU KNOW WHAT PROCESSES YOU'RE ENDING!!!!* Some processes with strange and cryptic names actually do very useful things. At the very least, you risk the system properly crashing; if you end a process that's halfway through writing something to disk, it won't be able to finish, and you risk doing strange things to the drive.noir2985 said:This probably isn't the best advice, but it's my method of getting rid of weird computer problems that won't go...Go into Task manager and look at the processes, then end any suspicious looking ones. Disclaimer: THIS MAY BREAK YOUR COMPUTER MORE
I did it once and it started working again, so I located the the processes that were dodgy and found that they were some sort of virus that I just deleted at the source.
FOLLOW THIS ADVICE AT YOUR OWN RISK.
Hope that helps.
The other problem with killing-processes approach is that it cures the symptoms, not the cause. The PC probs you have now may be caused by software nasties, but if all you do is end their processes, they'll just run again next time you boot the PC.
It is a good way to find out for sure if you're infected with anything, though.
If you're going to do this, make a list of all the processes running on the system and google them to find out what they are. If you're not told it's safe to end them or that they're something you'd rather not have running, *LEAVE THEM ALONE!*
i would strongly recommend against zonealarm, but hey that's just my opinion from experience..Lisa said:Im SO glad Rie asked about this (was going to do it myself but she beat me to it ) Will defo look into AVG and ZoneAlarm.
Lately my PC has been plagued with viruses and popups, and my screen has just been lemonpartied. Internet, you have indeed disgraced my delicate sensibilities.
Most routers have built in firewall protection so you may of had a conflict problem.Jheych said:I had zonealarm on my machine ferages .. and it worked fine .. well it loked like it did once you worked out what was allowed and what wasn't .. Nyway when we got a wireless network put in place ZA went very odd and didnt perform half as well.. no idea why .. so no longer use it . Certainly agree with the AVG and Adaware etc very handy tools