A good virus program???

[czplayer]

Hi I'm pretty sure my pc is free from any really bad viruses but i wanna make sure anyone know any good programs???
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i meant anti virus for the title sorry

 

[howard_hopkinso]

See the list of recommended programmes below.

AVG free or Avast antivirus programmes.

Zonealarm Kerio or Comodo free firewall programmes.

Spybot Search & Destroy.

Ad-Aware se personal.

Spyware Blaster.

AVG Antispyware.

Ccleaner.

Regards Howard

 

[Cinders]

I was gonna say that any P2P program would make sure your computer was full of viri

 

[czplayer]

I do have limewire but i never download .exe files

 

[Po`Girl]

A few more to avoid -

.SCR
.BAT
.CMD
.COM
.PIF
.DLL
.OCX
.INF
.INS
.VB
.VBS

 

[howard_hopkinso]

Nice list Po`Girl.

Another few to add.

.DOC
.SYS
.PDF with attachments.
.DLL
.ZIP
.RAR

Regards Howard

 

[czplayer]

Wow lol, I'm so ignorant....

 

[howard_hopkinso]

No worries mate. We all have to learn somewhere and TS is a good resource for that.

Regards Howard

 

[Val-]

You might also note that some malware can even remove some components of the more popular anti-virus programs (ie Norton) as that is what happened with me.

 

[Cinders]

I needed an ISO of an OEM copy of Windows ME and I was using a Bit Torrent client to download the file. As it downloaded parts of the file were identified as malware by Trend Micro Internet Security, so the file does not need to be an executable to be nasty.