Saturday, September 19, 2009

What is a good anti-virus and spyware software to use for a labtop?

I have a small labtop specifically a compaq with windows XP that started out having 60gigs of memory and now has 9gigs left



What is a good anti-virus and spyware software to use for a labtop?free spyware remobal



Anti-Virus:



AVG



Spyware/Adware removal:



SUPERAntispyware



Ad-Aware 2007 Free



General cleanup remove cookies and more:



CCleaner



Firewall:



Pc Tools Firewall Plus



Deframenter:



Auslogics Disk Defrag



All free.



Available @ http://internetsecurityandmaintenance.bl...



So many companies trying to make money by selling you products to keep your computer safe and clean, all of which are freely available.



How To Have A Clean Computer.



Step 1. Download Firefox as your browser and Adblock Plus Firefox Add-on.



Step 2. Update your virus definitions and scan, if no anti-virus AVG Free will do the job.



Step 3. Remove all adware/spyware, download Ad-Aware 2007 Free %26 SUPERAntispyware and run one at a time, remove all threats.



Step 4. Remove cookies, history etc download CCleaner run and clean.



Step 5. Remove any temp files left over, start\run\%temp% some may not remove because still in use.



Step 6. start\run\msconfig\startup to stop start up items not needed, google the start ups and you will know what to stop.

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