What's the latest recommendation on antispyware/malware?

Alan_Cross

I'm well and truly cheesed off with Lavasoft and am about to uninstall Adaware as a result - I can't even start a scan as I keep getting a '1814 system error' message which asks me if I'm using the programme as a 'different user', if you please... and I've done absolutely nothing to provoke this.

Can anyone tell me what decent, free software is available out there? I'm running Vista basic on a Dell Inspiron 531.

aliEnRIK

Malwarebytes
Download MALWAREBYTES (Make sure you click 'DOWNLOAD NOW')
http://www.download.com/Malwarebytes-Anti-Malware/3000-8022_4-10804572.html
UPDATE and FULL SCAN

tsimehC

Are you using the Anniversary Edition of Adaware? It's been fine for me so far.

theartfullodger

Move to Linux. All those Windoze problems go away.,... (but a few new ones crop up...)

3 major advantages to Linux, in my experience...
a) It is free. Yes, free as in "Free Beer"
b) It is found by users, big & small, to be more secure & less prone to attack by daft ***ers..
c) In my humble experience most things run noticeably faster. e.g. This Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop: Dual boots Vista & Ubuntu. Boots Linux in probably 1/2 the time. Word Processing & surfing noticeably quicker...

start here...

http://www.ubuntu.com/

experiment, try it, if you ike it use it...

- retire and wait for flames...

Cheers & best wishes to all, including those who don't agree with me!

Lodger

P.S. & no more buying/trying more products to fix Mr Gates' minor defects....

aliEnRIK

I understand where your coming from lodger. But most people who WOULD want to use linux wouldnt be coming on THIS techie thread

Alan_Cross

Thanks but as someone of relatively limited computer literacy I don't feel up to the challenge of an entire replacement of the OS.

Any advance on malwarebytes - and can anyone reassure me that it won't give me similar probs to adaware?

theartfullodger wrote: »

Move to Linux. All those Windoze problems go away.,... (but a few new ones crop up...)

3 major advantages to Linux, in my experience...
a) It is free. Yes, free as in "Free Beer"
b) It is found by users, big & small, to be more secure & less prone to attack by daft ***ers..
c) In my humble experience most things run noticeably faster. e.g. This Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop: Dual boots Vista & Ubuntu. Boots Linux in probably 1/2 the time. Word Processing & surfing noticeably quicker...

start here...

http://www.ubuntu.com/

experiment, try it, if you ike it use it...

- retire and wait for flames...

Cheers & best wishes to all, including those who don't agree with me!

Lodger

P.S. & no more buying/trying more products to fix Mr Gates' minor defects....

aliEnRIK

Alan

I help people on this site daily with Malwarebytes (Just search my posts if you wish)

Its safe as houses

Millionaire

Superantispyware is good

http://www.superantispyware.com/

maximus0983

if you bank with HSBC they are giving away a copy of McAfee Internet Security.

I buy Kaspersky for our work PC's about £8 a copy from Kaspersky online.

spud17

if you bank with HSBC they are giving away a copy of McAfee Internet Security.

But first check this forum, and see all the problems people have with it.

Alan Cross,

Go with the previous recommendations, you don't mention antivirus, what are you using?

If you want to pay, for three licences go to

http://www.ebuyer.com/special/1758?eblt=product_6

aliEnRIK

Mcafee is absolutely awful. Dont use that even if you can obtain it for free