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Anti Virus Spyware

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  • Apreciar
    Apreciar Posts: 627 Forumite
    aliEnRIK wrote: »
    Personally id keep 'spyware blaster' and remove Ad-aware, AVG8 and winpatrol

    If you DO remove AVG 8, uninstall it then use the removal tool (Else youll hit problems later on)
    Use the 32 bit AVG removal tool
    http://www.avg.com/download-tools

    Id replace AVG with AVIRA anti virus

    Download AVIRA ANTI VIRUS PERSONAL (Make sure you click 'DOWNLOAD LATEST VERSION')
    http://www.filehippo.com/download_antivir/

    Why remove Adaware; it seems that it is one of the most recommended utilities I seen.
    This is not to direspect your advice, just to understand more
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  • aliEnRIK
    aliEnRIK Posts: 17,741 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    No need to be embarrassed about it Apre'
    Ive found Ad-Aware next to useless compared to Malwarebytes and Superantispyware
    Spybots also good for its immunise feature (Stops nasties at the source)

    AVG 8 has a very poor detection rate next to Avira
    :idea:
  • DCFC79
    DCFC79 Posts: 40,641 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Apreciar wrote: »
    Installed PCTools and with it ThreatFire is that OK?

    Yes thats fine
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