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glary utilities is it any good

Just looking at free internet security found glary utilites, has any body used them/are thay any good, Your views would be good.

cheers:beer:

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  • mr_fishbulb
    mr_fishbulb Posts: 5,224 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    It's OK for a freebie. Although I don't really bother with these utility programs any more. I just use defrag and CCleaner
  • moorey1
    moorey1 Posts: 24 Forumite
    im the most un techy person in the world, my laptop is now working very slow and freezing i have avg 9, it had no id protection so added avg free id protection this seems to have caused the problems dont know what to do, or how too do defrags ect. will the glary utillitys sort this out and do i need to uninstall avg ty
  • dogmaryxx
    dogmaryxx Posts: 2,446 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    If you uninstall Avg be sure to use the removal tool.

    Either of these Avira/Avast/Mse would be better.

    In the mean time to check computer

    Download MALWAREBYTES (Make sure you click 'DOWNLOAD LATEST VERSION')
    http://www.filehippo.com/download_ma..._anti_malware/
    Open malwarebytes and go to UPDATE and click 'check for updates'. After its updated go to SCANNER and click PERFORM FULL SCAN then click SCAN
    Post the COMPLETE log here AFTER youve deleted everything it finds


    reboot

    Download HIJACK THIS (Make sure you click 'DOWNLOAD THIS VERSION')
    http://www.filehippo.com/download_hijackthis/2894/
    Click MAIN MENU then DO A SYSTEM SCAN AND SAVE A LOGFILE(Takes seconds) then post the log so we can see whats running
    (do NOT do anything else with Hijack but scan and post the FULL log)
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