Thread: need help finding virus..PLEASE!

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Originally Posted by TooMany2count

http://www.iobit.com/ this found things that Spybot, McAfee, Stopsign, and Nortons couldn't find & it has a FREE version also which is what I use...joe

THANKS!!!I uninstalled Spybot and gave this a try and also used the Free de-Frag that came with it,I think my computer just found the fountain of youth!Thanks Again!

Originally Posted by JeffB2

THANKS!!!I uninstalled Spybot and gave this a try and also used the Free de-Frag that came with it,I think my computer just found the fountain of youth!Thanks Again!

GREAT! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! just be sure to run it every few days or so because it has to be done manually from what I can see. 1st time I used it, it found over 3000 things on my computer.....joe

seems like some of guys are having better luck than me,I tried loading
Spybot ,about half way something else took over,buy the time I was
done,some stupid stopzilla had loaded up and want me to buy or donate !!
then I tried the housecall ,1 and half hour later (a big nothing) so I tried
again,now after a very long wait ,it said I needed to install some other
program, buy this time there is smoke coming out of my ears,my wife
is laughing at me cause I am threating the freaking computer,
and to top all off,I could not get on this tread all weekend
oh well ! not all is lost,, we got to watch a good game !!

Originally Posted by TooMany2count

http://www.iobit.com/ this found things that Spybot, McAfee, Stopsign, and Nortons couldn't find & it has a FREE version also which is what I use...joe

I went with this also--it works!!!!! I found over 3000 things wrong on mine

I looked at all of the suggestions you folks made then did a search on the internet, including PC Magazine and PC World. They are all in love with Norton/Symantec for a paid version, like the Microsoft vesion, ho-hum about McAfee and Kaspersky, are OK with the AVG products.

They really like the AVAST as a free software. Minor faults, but those can be lived with. I downloaded it and my computer has new life!!! It starts easy as well as shutting down just like the old days. The laptop - back to normal once the McAfee was gone.

It's interesting how these software companies rise then fall as McAfee was well rated when I originally bought it a few years ago and kept it only because I was comfortable with that product - and now it's mediocre rated. Oh well, live and learn.

I ran Norton on my old Gateway until it let a worm,trojan, whatever through and crashed the hard drive. I tried CA and it basically brought the computer to a halt, so I switched to Kaspersky.
The Dell I got a couple of years ago came with McAfee and when the subscription ran out I went with Kaspersky as I couldn't justify McAfee's much higher cost and lower ratings.
On a side note, when I uninstalled Norton on the Gateway it took about 4 hours to clean out the registry editor. Norton doesn't like to be uninstalled and their customer service, some clown in India, Pakistan, wherever, is worthless.