PC Malware/Antivirus suggestions

[Amaris]

I used AVG and then Avast... still got more than one virus they could not get rid of. Installed trial of Norton Security and it removed them on the first scan. I paid the annual fee... happily!

I have Avast on my phone, as well. It picked up a virus, but could not remove it... until it updated. Once that happened, the virus was gone.

Its a sad day indeed when someone would rather pay for Norton then use the free AVG. Just goes to show how crappy Free AVG really is. Now the pay one on the other hand.

Between using things like Combofix and Malwarebytes, and any free AV program, your computer will be just fine.

Pretty much. I use Avira, MalwareBytes, and, in a jam, Combofix, which takes care of 99.999% of all my problems.

I did use Avast, and it was quite good, but it wanted to control everything, and dealing with all of that was too much of a headache, so I found Avira, which is highly rated in various tests, and use that. It's just a simple anti-virus, which is all I need. Of course, I remember when Avira was Anti-Vir, the site was mostly German language, and it was awesome even then. I think they've only improved in terms of detection over the years.

 

[BeatleJWOL]

What, nobody using PC Matic?

 

[Amaris]

What, nobody using PC Matic?

*traps BeatleJWOL in a box, and only consents to release him if he agrees to pay $29.95.*

 

[BeatleJWOL]

[muffled]Curses! I only have $29.94! What an odd twist of fa-[dies because J. forgot to put holes in the box]

 

[Amaris]

Oh yeah, oxygen. I forgot about that.

 

[Dryson]

A question relating to Pinging.

I was reading how a computer in a criminal case pinged the local airport where the person who had been killed was supposed to leave from on the day that he was supposed to have left two minutes after his departure time.

The ping took place five days after he had been killed.

Would the have resulted in a program designed to track his movements for some reason?

Are there virus' out there that track an infected computers location and then ping the closest location from the infected computer to a possible person who might be involved with an extortion ring?

 

[Robert Maxwell]

A question relating to Pinging.

I was reading how a computer in a criminal case pinged the local airport where the person who had been killed was supposed to leave from on the day that he was supposed to have left two minutes after his departure time.

The ping took place five days after he had been killed.

Would the have resulted in a program designed to track his movements for some reason?

Are there virus' out there that track an infected computers location and then ping the closest location from the infected computer to a possible person who might be involved with an extortion ring?

No. A ping just tells you if a computer is currently running and able to answer ping requests. That's it and that's all.

 

[{ Emilia }]

I thought a ping tells you if the captain of a Soviet nuclear-powered submarine with ballistic missiles is trying to defect to the USA and even willing to fake a nuclear reactor incident.

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr0JaXfKj68[/yt]

 

[Amaris]

Only if the Russian captain has an obvious Scottish accent, and only if it's actually Sean Connery.