AVG Anti Spyware

Torry_Quine

Zone Alarm has a very good free firewall which I use. zonealarm.com
Hope that helps

davidsonsl

Why is it that my shield symbol is showing in black and grey and when I right click on it there is now no option to restore it??

roadsidetree

hi,

i have never tried free anti spyware from AVG. I only use their free anti-virus product. but here are some free anti spyware options -

Spybot - http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html
Ad-aware - http://www.download.com/3000-2144-10045910.html
Spywareblaster - http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

also occasionally you might want to try running this free online tool for PC health and safety from MS -
http://onecare.live.com/site/en-gb/default.htm

opportunity_cost

You're advised to keep AVG Anti-Spyware. AVG Anti-Spyware (formerly known as ewido) is an anti-trojan program for the most part, so as good a program as Spybot, Ad-aware and Spywareblaster are, they have no anti-trojan capabilities, so they're no adequate substitutes for AVG Anti-Spyware.

If you scan e-mail attachments and every file you download with AVG Anti-Spyware manually before you open/run them, you won't need the resident protection feature.

davidsonsl

davidsonsl wrote: »

Why is it that my shield symbol is showing in black and grey and when I right click on it there is now no option to restore it??

This is really bugging me - any ideas anyone???

pp

davidsonsl wrote: »

This is really bugging me - any ideas anyone???

Think your 30 days are up

davidsonsl

pp wrote: »

Think your 30 days are up

Yeah they are, does that mean the shield will not work again unless I cough up?

Browntoa

Windows Bit defender is free and resident shield stays active

make sure you have deleted any of the earlier Beta versions

mrsthrifty_2

davidsonsl wrote: »

Yeah they are, does that mean the shield will not work again unless I cough up?

uninstall and go and download freebie again from Grisoft, each download will be newer than the last and the shield will be in use again HTH

davidsonsl

mrsthrifty wrote: »

uninstall and go and download freebie again from Grisoft, each download will be newer than the last and the shield will be in use again HTH

Ahh, I like the sneaky sneaky!!!