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07-03-2010, 03:17 PM | #1 |
Our Blessings R Many Donating Member | Help:Anti Virus Protection ????? Help Have been having nothing but problems with our computer wanted to know where to go to download off the internet for free anti virus protection for computers. Maybe I just need to get a new computer, but trying to avoid doing so. Having big time staying connected and it is sooooooooooo frustrating. Appreciate your input and any site that can download off the net free I appreciate. Thanks, Hugs, Patti and Jack and Girls. |
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07-03-2010, 03:24 PM | #2 |
Izzy's Momma Too! Donating Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Stuart, Florida
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| Hey Patti I've been using Avast for a few years now and have had NO viruses get through! I had Norton before that, and I always had problems, grr! Anyway, if you Google Avast, you'll find several places to download it for free. Also, if you want to do a quick scan online, TrendMicro has a free scanner
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07-03-2010, 03:26 PM | #3 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: With my yorkies
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| Hi Patti! I asked the same thing recently. Here's the thread, it's full of great advice I received. http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/off...-software.html
__________________ He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. -- Author Unknown |
07-03-2010, 03:31 PM | #4 | |
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__________________ I'm Karen - Devoted Mama to the Drama Boyz - Cooper & Max www.alldogboots.com | |
07-03-2010, 03:44 PM | #5 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: With my yorkies
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| Yes. I already had AVG installed, it just needed to be updated. I'm also using spybot and one other that was recommended as a "just in case" (I forget the name of it but I think Vee recommended it). This one found several Trojans on my computer that none of the other programs were able to find. So far, not a single problem!
__________________ He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. -- Author Unknown |
07-03-2010, 03:55 PM | #6 | |
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__________________ I'm Karen - Devoted Mama to the Drama Boyz - Cooper & Max www.alldogboots.com | |
07-03-2010, 04:04 PM | #7 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: With my yorkies
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| You have perfect timing! I keep telling myself I need to do that, but I never do. Thanks!
__________________ He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. -- Author Unknown |
07-03-2010, 04:08 PM | #8 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Delray Beach, FL
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| I just backed up this morning. That didn't come out right. Anyway, I know how to backup my files and I know they are on the external hard drive but I have no idea how to get them back on my computer. I guess I'll learn when I have to.
__________________ I'm Karen - Devoted Mama to the Drama Boyz - Cooper & Max www.alldogboots.com |
07-03-2010, 04:14 PM | #9 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: With my yorkies
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| I had to read that a couple of times. Thanks for the chuckle, I really needed it.
__________________ He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. -- Author Unknown |
07-03-2010, 04:14 PM | #10 |
Our Blessings R Many Donating Member | Oh my gosh, i just clicked onto that and got the abosolute most disgusting site............. Porn site, something crazy going on here. I have never seen anything like this, makes me soooooo sick. I'll give up computer before putting up with this. |
07-03-2010, 04:17 PM | #11 | |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: With my yorkies
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Was it the link I posted? I just tried it and it went straight to the thread I was talking about. If you clicked on my link and got a site like that, please report it to admin right away!
__________________ He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. -- Author Unknown | |
07-03-2010, 04:18 PM | #12 | |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Delray Beach, FL
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I highly suggest this avast! Free Antivirus - Download Software for Virus Protection and Spybot - Search & Destroy Free Download and Reviews - Fileforum I would do the avast first and let it do a system scan. Do you currently have any anti virus software at all? i can help you through the process if you need.
__________________ I'm Karen - Devoted Mama to the Drama Boyz - Cooper & Max www.alldogboots.com | |
07-03-2010, 04:20 PM | #13 | |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: With my yorkies
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Patti, take a deep breath and tell us what happened.
__________________ He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. -- Author Unknown | |
07-03-2010, 04:28 PM | #14 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: With my yorkies
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| I just talked to Patti, and I've reported my post to admin. Something is wrong and the link I posted took her to another site, off of YT. Hopefully admin will be here soon to fix everything.
__________________ He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. -- Author Unknown |
07-03-2010, 04:41 PM | #15 |
Yorkie Kisses are the Best! Donating Member | AVG is good too and free Spybot is GREAT and free - used it for years Malware Bytes is free and a big help too - you have to be sooooo protected these days - I have a very good program I use now and one snuck by me recently and is in my memory - I've been going crazy trying to remove it - it's a bad one but I know how it happened and it was my own fault. I posted about it somewhere but man it sucks to have a messed up computer ! I'll fix it but my solution will probably have to be to back up everything to a hard drive which will take a long time with all the work I have accumalated over the years then re-format the whole computer - that's at least a day or 2 of work and I'm dreading it |
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