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free virus/computer clean up programs?

BurnsBurns 2,227 Posts
edited December 2011 in Strut Central
Yo, where can I find a great computer clean up program on the net? Do they exist? I was paying for Nortons and Kaspersky, but I want a free one. Any help?


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  • fishmongerfunkfishmongerfunk 4,154 Posts
    Microsoft Security Essentials (my recommendation)
    http://windows.microsoft.com/en-CA/windows/products/security-essentials

    or

    AVG

    Also get: either Spybot Search and Destroy or Adaware
  • billbradleybillbradley You want BBQ sauce? Get the fuck out of my house. 2,914 Posts
    If you are infected already, run Combofix. Fast and free. It is the by far the best free app around for cleaning off malware.

    http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/combofix/how-to-use-combofix
  • PATXPATX 2,820 Posts
    billbradley said:
    If you are infected already, run Combofix. Fast and free. It is the by far the best free app around for cleaning off malware.

    http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/combofix/how-to-use-combofix

    Cosign - Combofix gets rid of extortionware bogus anti virus.

    Then get Malwarebytes free version.
  • HorseleechHorseleech 3,830 Posts
    There really is no 'best' anti-virus program.

    The top ones include Avast, AVG, Combofix, Hitman Pro, and Malware Bytes.

    I can tell you from experience that all of these will find some things that the others do not, because I just had the worst virus I've ever encountered and it took weeks (and a reinstall) to get rid of it. I ran all of these several times and each one found things the previous
    ones missed, but in the end the virus was too deep and none of them could fully remove it. If I had Avast or AVG enabled I wouldn't have got it, but I had turned them off because they were interfering with something I was trying to do and I never activated them again.

    It was a bogus spyware program that tried to look like AVG, but wasn't. I wish I could say that I got it looking at some juicy porn or something exciting, but all it took was clicking on a picture of Paul McCartney with a mullet on some dudes dinky music blog.
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