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virus can harm your usefulll or very important files, or even corrupt your whole OS, which cause loss in data, which might be needed ... so better have some good anti-virus

i would prefer       MS Security essential and ESET nod32    ...

 

i use both of them in my laptop, and it is runing quite smooth...as both of these soft are not much heavy and doesn't overload your memory...

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@imadpc

 

I agree,both of the apps you mention are very good. You really should not run two anti-vrus apps at once.They can interfere with one another, and do tend to slow the machine down.

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i dont use an antivirus 😄

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My HP 5 S5150t has a nasty, tenacious virus or malware which prevents downloads.  Running Win7 64-bit.  Is there a virus/malware removal tool which can remove an unidentified virus?  Since I can't download, could you kindly email it to me if you know of one?

 

Thanks,

Bill

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@ billw-4

 

 

Follow the order given below to disinfect your PC
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1.) On a PC that is Not infected, Make a boot AV disc then boot from the disc on the Infected PC and scan the hard drive, remove any infections it finds, I prefer the Kaspersky disc myself. The New 2010 Kaspersky disc can update the AV dat files if you are connected to the internet at the time of scan and is suggested to update before the scan.
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2.) Then:
Install free MBAM, run the program and go to the Update tab and update it, then go to the Scanner Tab and do a quick scan, select and remove anything it finds.
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3.) When MBAM is done install SAS free version, run a quick scan, remove what it automatically selects.
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These last 2 are not AV softwares like Norton, they are on demand scanners that only scan for nasties when you run the program and will not interfere with your installed AV, these can be run once a day or week to ensure you are not infected. Be sure you update them before each daily-weekly scan.

Follow the order given below to disinfect your PC


 

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Great info...thanks!

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