Can you tell me about the best and cheapest All in One Anti Virus?

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Yousaf

I am a new member to this forum and happy to know that there is lot
around here to learn from you guys.

I did not believe any anti virus, since I started using PCs, as I
always believed that weather or not there is an anti virus loaded on
my machine, I have to format my computer at least once in 3 months as
a routine and I have been doing this all along.

I proved myself wrong yesterday as when I opened my G.Mail, I cam
across funny things!
I am typing and my cursor is jumping all over the place
I am clicking to open the messages and they are not opening
Then a guy prompted and offered me to have a chat in Google mail
itself.
As soon as I closed his/her offer, I had wonders, my dial up
connection immediately gone, never reconnected again, I tried all
tricks, the COMPAQ has on the book (I am having legal Winxp Home by
the way). I struggled to send my important message as the guy who
hacked me was not allowing me to do anything?

On my good old Acer laptop it was very easy to restart and press F10
and you are in business but this brand new funny, glassy and stupid
COMPAQ, I could not do any thing

Please advise me on a very good and most economical All in One Anti
Virus and I promise you that I will pray for all of you in real

Please do not disappoint your new guest in you forum
 
Yousaf said:
I am a new member to this forum and happy to know that there is lot
around here to learn from you guys.

I did not believe any anti virus, since I started using PCs, as I
always believed that weather or not there is an anti virus loaded on
my machine, I have to format my computer at least once in 3 months as
a routine and I have been doing this all along.
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This isn't necessary with NT-based systems that are reasonably maintained.
I proved myself wrong yesterday as when I opened my G.Mail, I cam
across funny things!
I am typing and my cursor is jumping all over the place
I am clicking to open the messages and they are not opening
Then a guy prompted and offered me to have a chat in Google mail
itself.
As soon as I closed his/her offer, I had wonders, my dial up
connection immediately gone, never reconnected again, I tried all
tricks, the COMPAQ has on the book (I am having legal Winxp Home by
the way). I struggled to send my important message as the guy who
hacked me was not allowing me to do anything?

On my good old Acer laptop it was very easy to restart and press F10
and you are in business but this brand new funny, glassy and stupid
COMPAQ, I could not do any thing

Please advise me on a very good and most economical All in One Anti
Virus and I promise you that I will pray for all of you in real

Please do not disappoint your new guest in you forum
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If you can't get online reliably, remove the drive and attach it to another
functioning XP system. Inexpensive USB2 drive cases are very handy for
this. Get the correct case for the drive type, SATA or IDE. Cases start
around $15.

Be sure, first, that the Antivirus on the "host" system is up-to-date.
It's a good idea to do a virus scan first as a benchmark.

Once you have the drive attached to the other host system, go to
http://housecall.trendmicro.com and scan the attached drive.

You might want to first delete on that attached drive (in order to speed up
the scan by removing many files) the content.ie5 folders in each account
(these will be rebuilt), empty the temp folders, and in the root directory
delete the one or two very large files, pagefile.sys and hiberfil.sys (that
will only be present if hibernation was enabled). Empty the recycle bin.
That may actually remove the problem files; much malware gets in via the
temporary internet files and temp folders. The pagefile and hiberfil
are removed just to speed up scanning - they are big files and take a while
to examine, and they will be rebuilt as soon as the system is restarted.

I suggest the housecall site because it's unlikely to be compromised by
anything on your system. It works pretty well and won't conflict much with
the locally installed A/V software.

You might also want to download and copy over to the hosted drive HijackThis
and ccleaner, so that you can run them without reconnecting to the network.

This method doesn't allow malware to launch, so you don't have to fight with
running malware to delete its files.

Once you have completed this, put the drive back in its system, do not
connect to the network, reboot and run ccleaner, do an A/V scan, and run
HiJackThis. Examine the log carefully and take action as required.
Don't reconnect until you are reasonably certain that the system is under
your control, but be ready to disconnect.

HTH
-pk
 
Patrick Keenan said:
This isn't necessary with NT-based systems that are reasonably maintained.



If you can't get online reliably, remove the drive and attach it to
another functioning XP system. Inexpensive USB2 drive cases are very
handy for this. Get the correct case for the drive type, SATA or IDE.
Cases start around $15.

Be sure, first, that the Antivirus on the "host" system is up-to-date.
It's a good idea to do a virus scan first as a benchmark.

Once you have the drive attached to the other host system, go to
http://housecall.trendmicro.com and scan the attached drive.

You might want to first delete on that attached drive (in order to speed
up the scan by removing many files) the content.ie5 folders in each
account (these will be rebuilt), empty the temp folders, and in the root
directory delete the one or two very large files, pagefile.sys and
hiberfil.sys (that will only be present if hibernation was enabled).
Empty the recycle bin. That may actually remove the problem files; much
malware gets in via the temporary internet files and temp folders.
The pagefile and hiberfil are removed just to speed up scanning - they are
big files and take a while to examine, and they will be rebuilt as soon as
the system is restarted.

I suggest the housecall site because it's unlikely to be compromised by
anything on your system. It works pretty well and won't conflict much
with the locally installed A/V software.

You might also want to download and copy over to the hosted drive
HijackThis and ccleaner, so that you can run them without reconnecting to
the network.

This method doesn't allow malware to launch, so you don't have to fight
with running malware to delete its files.

Once you have completed this, put the drive back in its system, do not
connect to the network, reboot and run ccleaner, do an A/V scan, and run
HiJackThis. Examine the log carefully and take action as required. Don't
reconnect until you are reasonably certain that the system is under your
control, but be ready to disconnect.

HTH
-pk
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Avast ! A/V program is freeware and rates quite highly.
Go to http://www.avast.com/eng/download.html
I have used it for about 2 years now, with no problems at all.
Updates arrive every day, automatically.

Jim.
 
Yousaf said:
I am a new member to this forum and happy to know that there is lot
around here to learn from you guys.

I did not believe any anti virus, since I started using PCs, as I
always believed that weather or not there is an anti virus loaded on
my machine, I have to format my computer at least once in 3 months as
a routine and I have been doing this all along.
Click to expand...
I proved myself wrong yesterday as when I opened my G.Mail, I cam
across funny things!
I am typing and my cursor is jumping all over the place
I am clicking to open the messages and they are not opening
Then a guy prompted and offered me to have a chat in Google mail
itself.
As soon as I closed his/her offer, I had wonders, my dial up
connection immediately gone, never reconnected again, I tried all
tricks, the COMPAQ has on the book (I am having legal Winxp Home by
the way). I struggled to send my important message as the guy who
hacked me was not allowing me to do anything?

On my good old Acer laptop it was very easy to restart and press F10
and you are in business but this brand new funny, glassy and stupid
COMPAQ, I could not do any thing

Please advise me on a very good and most economical All in One Anti
Virus and I promise you that I will pray for all of you in real

Please do not disappoint your new guest in you forum
Click to expand...

Here are some Free Anti-virus?firewall/anti-malware and Commercial ones in
alphabetical order:
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html
http://www.free-av.com/
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5
http://www.bitdefender.com/PRODUCT-14-en--BitDefender-Free-Edition.html
http://download.drweb.com/
Free Anti-malware Apps:
http://www.malwarebytes.org/
http://onecare.live.com/site/en-US/default.htm
http://www.superantispyware.com/superantispywarefreevspro.html

Paid Anti-virus:
http://shop.ca.com/
http://download.drweb.com/
http://www.f-prot.com/
http://www.f-secure.com/downloads/
http://www.kaspersky.com/homeuser
http://www.mcafee.com/us/downloads/
http://www.eset.com/download/index.php
http://www.sophos.com/
http://www.symantec.com/downloads/
http://us.trendmicro.com/us/downloads/home-and-homeoffice/

Malware:
http://www.pctools.com/spyware-doctor/

Free firewall:
http://www.comodo.com/
http://www.kerio.com/kwf_download.html
http://download.zonealarm.com/bin/free/beta/forcefield/index.html

HTH.
nass
 
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