Free Anti Virus Software

System

Running on XP you get pop-ups unless you make a few simple changes to your computer.
Companies send pop-ups and entice you into buying expensive software to stop it.
All I did to stop pop-ups was type in "endads" into google, in there a guy has highlighted this scam and in his own way tells anyone how to easily STOP POP-UPS FOREVER.
It was Microsofts way of opening up the internet to all, they didn't think about the "ne'er do wells" who want to make a quick buck out of us all.
Best regards
Frankkk

chrisorheather

Sophos antivirus is also spyware free. The "beta" version is free - see https://www.sophos.com. You can subscribe for email updates, which Sophos seems to issue pretty promptly.

System

Running on XP you get pop-ups unless you make a few simple changes to your computer.
Companies send pop-ups and entice you into buying expensive software to stop it.
All I did to stop pop-ups was type in "endads" into google, in there a guy has highlighted this scam and in his own way tells anyone how to easily STOP POP-UPS FOREVER.
It was Microsofts way of opening up the internet to all, they didn't think about the "ne'er do wells" who want to make a quick buck out of us all.
Best regards
Frankkk

;D :P

jazzeeeee5

A lot of people dont realise the damage that can be caused to their PCs and just what level of spying capability companies have - some can even access your passwords etc by installing undesirable system invaders on your hard drive from you simply surfing on the net! In fact, your every action can be 'recorded' by these companies and they also have the potential for giving you a nasty virus without even opening an email !
Most of the best spyware / pop-up destroyers can block adware servers from your computer as well as
blocking spyware/tracking cookies and potential dial-up servers.
And, dont think it is only those 'nasty' sites that do this...even your common or garden ones do it to some degree. For more info have a look at...

http://www.spyware.co.uk/

Happy surfin' ;D

Jazz :-*

System

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Not being very computer compatible i just typed Popups into the Google search engine. Up came lots of Popup blasters such as Ziller for example - but they were all demanding $29 - but at the bottom of the page Google has it's own answer - the Google tool bar. By installing it following their easy instructions it has blocked 41 popup ads in a couple of days - I know because it tells you on the tool bar.

isasmurf

There is also another thread on free popup blockers in the anything else folder

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=Others;action=display;num=1061226707

rach

thanks everyone - especially Jazzeeee. have duly downloaded as much of the stuff as my PC will allow - don;t have administrator priveliges. now i know the viruses i'm dealing with i can hand it back to them to sort out!

thanks again - Rach.

System

On the subject of ant-virus, there is a site where you can check your pc online http://housecall.trendmicro.com/housecall/start_corp.asp
It's not designed to replace progs' installed on your pc, but I know of one case where it found a virus, the fully updated anti-virus software has missed. I run it about once a month as a back-up.

alared

Today`s Times

Re: virus. A threat to your PC or licence to print money?
By Anthony Browne

COMPUTER software companies have been accused of failing to stamp out viruses because they make so much money selling programmes to combat them.
Companies that sell antivirus programmes were also accused of choosing catchy names for the viruses, so they get more publicity.

The row, which reflects the millennium bug furore, when computer experts were accused of hyping the problem to generate work, has erupted after the SoBig.F virus was declared the biggest ever, with e-mail inboxes clogged up around the world. The internet provider AOL said it had stopped more than 23 million copies of the virus.

BT, Britain’s biggest phone company, was yesterday warning internet service providers that its fast internet broadband network was “suffering intermittent degradation of service” because of the extra traffic the virus had generated.

Yesterday Nick Scales, chief executive of software company Avecho, which also makes anti-virus programmes, said the industry had a vested commercial interest in letting the virus attacks continue: “It’s complacent, silly and I’d even go so far as to say there is a cartel there. There is a triangle between the virus writers who get the kudos, the anti-virus software companies and the technical writers who write about it.”

The commercial director of Avecho, Simon Copeland, said that people in other anti-virus companies had told him they chose deliberately provocative names in order to get publicity. “They think its not bad to get some publicity because it scares everyone into buying their product.”

But the claims were denied by other software companies. Simon Conant, of Microsoft, said: “That’s like saying that fire departments want fires.”

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Mailwasher is also a usefull tool, as well as allowing you to bounce spam back to the sender, it advises of e-mails possibly containing viruses.
Download free from http://www.vnunet.com/Download/1133826

PS I am also an AVG user
PPS Is it viruses or viri?