Will need anti spyware

[Guest broavoiliom]

Shame.

My information continues to be stolen.

[Realitycheck]

Malwarebytes.com, though there are possibly a few other free ones that might be better. I'm seeing Mcafee as the most popular these days for a price.

Edited September 4, 2011 by Realitycheck

[JohnB]

Malwarebytes definitely. I also use Ad Aware and C Cleaner. Anti virus is AVG free and AFAIK I have not had any sort of infection in years.

 

I get alerts and the horrible bit of code dies.

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

Microsoft Security Essentials is free and fairly fast and effective.

 

Stolen information is more likely these days to be a result of dodgy websites, I suspect. One must be careful not to be tricked by phishing scams and dodgy websites.

[khaled]

Lava AD-AWARE is the top-rated anti-spyware by CNET group ...

 

download: LAVE:AD-AWARE

 

good luck,

[cfa99]

consider also a virus scanner

There are several for free like bit defender and avira to name just a few.

 

Thanks

Charles

www.cfalabs.com

 

Lava AD-AWARE is the top-rated anti-spyware by CNET group ...

 

download: LAVE:AD-AWARE

 

good luck,

[Phi for All]

Malwarebytes.com, though there are possibly a few other free ones that might be better. I'm seeing Mcafee as the most popular these days for a price.

Malwarebytes.org, not .com.

[khaled]

If you are going to pay for security, I won't suggest Mcafee because it sandbox your system and it has big update blocks,

 

I wouldn't suggest Norton, because it's system is too complex that it makes your system lag, and its updates take too long if you use low-speed internet.

 

I'd suggest Kaspersky, as you'd know that it's the most pirated AV in the world, because it's light-weight with light weekly updates, and a smart system

 

that asks you for any event that occur in your system, instead of sandboxing your whole system ...

[jacobson]

The latest version on Norton is not that heavy, and you can customize it to become lighter... If you have north of 4 Gigs of memory it should be OK...

 

Kaspersky is also a very good option...

 

McFee....mixed feelings.....

[StringJunky]

Avast, Antivir, MS Security Essentials are all fine as real-time AV's...it's a case of choose the one that suits. As for routine on-demand scanners having Superantispyware and Malwarebytes are in my armoury. For protection of online transactions and password protection (which is used by quite a few UK banks) I use Rapport. I just use the free versions.

 

In the event of positively identifying malware on my system I reimage my system with a saved backup made by Macrium Reflect Free which I update regularly with new images. I never save my data or images on the system partition...these are kept on a separate one. I don't bother trying to get rid of malware by using the above utilities, they are for detection purposes only, as malware invariably trashes the registry, and repair is never satisfactory imo and is time consuming; a reimage takes me 20 minutes.

Edited October 2, 2011 by StringJunky

[rktpro]

MS Security Essentials is the best

[Guest scepticmale1985]

MS Security Essential is not better than Malwarebytes in my opinion, MSE cannot remove many spyware programs...

[StringJunky]

MS Security Essential is not better than Malwarebytes in my opinion, MSE cannot remove many spyware programs...

 

MSE's forte is as a real-time antimalware solution. No single solution is best. A good solution is to use one real-time (always on) AV and a couple of on-demand scanners like Superantispyware and Malwarebytes on a routine basis as backup. The best way to recover from an attack is to re-image your PC, not try to remove the malware. I think antimalware should be seen as detection utilities and not removal ones.

Edited October 10, 2011 by StringJunky