* Conficker C & April 1st *

aliEnRIK

http://www.avira.com/en/security_news/conficker_worm.html

gaming_guy

easy way to tell if your computer has been infected by conficker:

http://www.joestewart.org/cfeyechart.html

yorksrabbit

Just a quick update to my earlier post on here about AVs.

I've taken the advice given and installed Avira Personal v9.

Uninstallation of Avast was easy (using Avast's own uninstaller, downloadable from Avast's website.)

Impressions so far: um, impressive. Avira seems to load much, much quicker than Avast did. The UI is much superior. The auto-24 hour update works fine. Scanning seems considerably faster. And it doesn't seem to impact on resources as heavily as Avast did.

Early days, I know, but Avira (latest free version) seems pretty darned good to me, so thanks to everyone here who high-lighted it. The case for anyone forking out good money for something like McAfee seems more groundless than ever.

aliEnRIK

Avira is far and away the best free av solution

Id still suggest regular scans with Malwarebytes, Superantispyware and Spybot though

Marty_J

aliEnRIK wrote: »

Y2K anyone? :rolleyes:

Well, maybe. The Y2K thing turned out to be a whole load of fussing over nothing.

Conficker is still out there though, infecting millions of Windows PCs.