computer anti-virus

[Buddie]

Can any computer geeks out there hep me.
My computer keeps crashing.Norton 2006 won't work because I have Vista and it sin't compatable with norton06. I think I opened a spam email with a virus.
Cos I don't know how to use a memory stick I have lost all imformation stored.
Does any one know any free anti virus things you can get onine? Its the forth time its crashed this year

[kevo2k7]

I would go for Avast,its brilliant

[pug100]

Hi Buddie,
Most people I know have problems when using Norton, so ditch it in favour of Avast or AVG.

http://www.avg.co.uk/doc/welcome

Use a spyware prog too to spot any rogue web pages you may encounter. Spyware Doctor is good from PCTools, but there are also many others out there too.

http://www.pctools.com

To help avoid losing all your data, try doing backup every few weeks onto CDr or DVDr. That way if your hard disc dies or becomes infected you've only lost a small amount of work. Win XP has this facility built in , so I'm sure Vista must have it too. If not try using backup software such as Acronis True Image or similar.

http://www.Acronis.com

As for using a memory stick, you can either use it like another hard drive (it will appear as a drive in My Computer )or just drag n drop files onto it.

[Mrs.Sippy]

I think you could do a lot worse than use Microsoft's software. It's free and I've always found it to be superb.

http://onecare.live.com/site/en-gb/default.htm ?s_cid=ideas

[rojash]

Mrs.Sippy, you don't think there's something a wee bit ironic about using a Microsoft product to protect you from the security shortcomings of a Microsoft product?

[Buddie]

thanks all you lot, have downloaded microsoft onecare which helps. Tried to get trials of avg and some others but could n't complete the download because they don't give you A license key number. So tomorrow I will go to that famous PC store and buy one of them instead.
Thanx for all your help, youv'e been great I guess I'm just pretty dumb whgen it comes to computers.