Fixed A Computer Problem Last Night

[DEEKAYPEE8569]

.....surprised myself.....

One of the laptops in the house that is online for hours upon hours, came down with a virus due to clicking on a pop-up ad for some country singer/group; a "Win tickets to....." or "Hear the latest from....." something like that; it wasn't me; wasn't my computer.

Laptop wouldn't do anything; locked up solid with some kind of "YOUR COMUPTER IS INFECTED!" warning, it was.

I managed to find the Symantec anti-virus CD that I think DoWhat gave me. I installed the anti-virus software and cleaned tons of garbage.
I asked, 'When was the last time this thing was scanned?' 'I've never run an anti-virus scan; don't know how.' I said, 'With all the Facebooking, opening of attachments in e-mails; and online gaming (Bejeweled Blitz) you do, you need to run this program at least once a week. Now that's probably too frequent, but as I may have eluded to, this computer is online almost 25/8. I said, "When you start your laptop for the day; before you do anything, open and update the program; have it running in the background." This was met with a 'HUH?' look. This isn't the first time this sort of thing has happened to the herein unnamed, so, I'll see if (when) this issue resurfaces.

 

[Hodr]

You know you can get anti-virus software that is always-on, right? Try Malwarebytes for one that is reasonably priced (lifetime is like $20, or often free after rebate) and it has a better detection rate than any Symantec product at present.

Heck if your on an older windows (XP/Vista/7) try installing Microsoft Security Essentials. It's free, and pretty lightweight (doesn't bog down your system) and again has similar or better detection rates to Symantec.

 

[DEEKAYPEE8569]

You know you can get anti-virus software that is always-on, right? Try Malwarebytes for one that is reasonably priced (lifetime is like $20, or often free after rebate) and it has a better detection rate than any Symantec product at present.

Heck if your on an older windows (XP/Vista/7) try installing Microsoft Security Essentials. It's free, and pretty lightweight (doesn't bog down your system) and again has similar or better detection rates to Symantec.

Awesome.....This is new information. Thanks. What the computers on our home network need is an anti-virus/adware program that self-starts, self-updates and allows the user to set up update and scan schedules. Notfor my laptop; because I'm diligent about updating and scanning; but for the other computers that are never scanned but as I said, used 25/8; inducing a panic when they lock up.

 

[MADPEBS1]

don't know many others that say 25/8

yes, many free antivirus SW out there, AVG, Malaware which you want running 25/8 !!!!!!!!!!!! ;-))

and also get the a malware SW run that often too.... I use the malaware free one.

CNET has reviews/download area where you can get the free stuff.

You aren't still using XP are you, because that's not supported anymore, another thing is keeping puter up to date with KB patches etc....

 

[DEEKAYPEE8569]

don't know many others that say 25/8

yes, many free antivirus SW out there, AVG, Malaware which you want running 25/8 !!!!!!!!!!!! ;-))

and also get the a malware SW run that often too.... I use the malaware free one.

CNET has reviews/download area where you can get the free stuff.

You aren't still using XP are you, because that's not supported anymore, another thing is keeping puter up to date with KB patches etc....

Nope.....WIN7
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