Posts Tagged ‘antivirus’


Free Malware Protection

Dear Computer Lady, Do you provide your clients a pathway to the AVG free software? Also, I consider Ad-Aware and Spy-Bot to be essentials, as well as Malbyte’s Anti-Malware software. Have you used any of those? It has allowed me to stop paying for Norton Anti-Virus and the other pay protectors. Thanks, Don

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How To Remove Antivirus Soft

Dear Computer Lady, I run WindowsXP. My anti-virus and anti- spyware is CA. Have been using this for several years, recently renewing my subscription. About two weeks after I renewed, on booting up one AM, my system was completely locked down. A small window stated my system was infected with a virus.. In the meantime, [...]

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Keep Your Computer Secure

Dear Computer Lady, I have been having a few problems with my computer lately, and the guy at Best Buy said that all I need is an internet security suite like Norton or McAfee. Those programs are kind of expensive, how do I know if they are really worth it? Anne

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Antivirus 2010

Dear Computer Lady, My computer has been overtaken by home antivirus 2010. I am having trouble removing and refuse to pay anyone for removal. Any ideas of how to remove and more importantly any ideas of who to contact to complain about this company. These are not just aggressive techniques to sell product. They have [...]

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Antivirus Old Computer

  Dear Computer Lady, I hope you can HELP ME!  I have WinME. My Free AVG 7 stopped supporting WinME on April 30. And I can’t upgrade because of O.S. Is there a GOOD & Free online Antivirus program that will support this O.S.??  We absolutely cannot afford to upgrade our computer. I am unemployed [...]

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Is AVG Effective?

  Dear Computer Lady, Based on your recommendation, I installed AVG a couple of years ago. I read in the latest Consumers’ Reports issue the only reference to AVG is that the free version is as effective as the lowest rated on its list. Nowhere else was AVG listed. I expected to see it up [...]

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Virus Vault Files

Dear Computer Lady, I’m wondering about the virus vault concerning my computer scans.  I usually have about a dozen cookies each time the computer is scanned.  They are removed to the virus vault.   There is the option of emptying the virus vault. I know people who have never emptied theirs.  But, I’m thinking they [...]

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Change Antivirus Programs

  Dear Computer Lady, I have a Dell laptop Inspiron 1720. My trial of TrendMicro PC-cillin has expired and I would like to go to a different program. Someone told me you shouldn’t change is this true? If not, what internet security would you suggest?? Thank you so much, Karen

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How to Remove AVG Logs

Dear Computer Lady, I have just recently downloaded and installed the AVG free version of virus protection. My question for you is this. I have not been able to figure out how to delete the “log” of when the Virus protection runs its scan. I am getting quite a list. How do I delete these [...]

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AVG Professional Antivirus

  AVG Professional Antivirus It has been a few weeks since I talked about antivirus programs, since I have been getting questions from people recently, who think they don’t really need an antivirus program, It is time to talk about it again. If you don’t want to get viruses, which will lead to expensive computer [...]

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