Thread: Best free anti-virus? I need one now : /

I have been running AVG and it has not picked up anything. My comp keeps crashing and I don't know why. I have not looked at porn believe it or not. I am downloading Avast! right now but I probably need another one. Anyone have a good software to use.

Sorry for spamming tech talk with my noobish questions but this one is pretty serious My comp is at risk and I sure do not want to restart from scratch.

Edit: I searched before I posted this. I am not lazy

I use Avast! and it seems pretty good to me.

did you have youre first one up to date?

Avast! is at 50%. Wonder what the results are : /

And yes I update it every other day.

oh, i thought that might have been the reason for the problem, but i guess not.

by the way, it might be hardware problems causing the crashing.

Malwarebytes is another option. Also, start up your computer in safe mode before you run a scan, as it will prevent unnecessary and usually unwanted processes from running. (If I'm wrong, let me know. That's just what I was told and it makes sense to me.)

Also, if you're running Windows, run the updates. If you have that conficker virus that's running around, Microsoft came out with a patch for it. I don't know if that was before or after the French Navy's computers were infected

Originally Posted by Amethyst Star

Malwarebytes is another option. Also, start up your computer in safe mode before you run a scan, as it will prevent unnecessary and usually unwanted processes from running. (If I'm wrong, let me know. That's just what I was told and it makes sense to me.)

i thought safe mode was made so that when you run it in safe mode viruses dont run. and in that case how is a scan supposed to detect any viruses when there arent any running.

I use Avira AntiVir.
It works decently enough for me.

Originally Posted by slash112

i thought safe mode was made so that when you run it in safe mode viruses dont run. and in that case how is a scan supposed to detect any viruses when there arent any running.

Originally Posted by Website

http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?t=67223

Often the only way to remove certain persistent virus and spyware programs is to run your system in Safe Mode. Many forms of malicious software will protect or reinstall themselves constantly if they are allowed to start in the first place. These programs will situate themselves in one of the many autorun locations in the Windows registry and file structure. When Windows is started normally, so is the offending software, running as a process in the background.

When you start the PC in Safe Mode, these autorun locations are not used, and no software is started automatically. This can allow virus and spyware removal programs the opportunity they need to remove the malicious software completely.

If you are having virus or spyware problems on your PC, you should always run antivirus and anti-spyware programs in Safe Mode to ensure that they have maximum effect.

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