downloading bt antivrus

[recordman]

I have been attacked by malwar virus so I am trying to download macafee netprotectplus but apparently my computer has only XP2002 installed.it seems I need the latest xp version and when I went to the web pages I couldn't believe how expensive it is to buy a disc.Would it be cheaper to buy another moden or is there a site I can down load this latest XP version?

[Buenchico]

(2-part post):

I'm very confused!!!

The '2002' suffix is only used to refer to the Microsoft Office suite (and to its individual components, such as Word, Excel and Access). It's got nothing to do with your operating system (Windows XP). That will have been installed onto your computer together with the latest 'service pack' which was available at the time. So you've got the original XP operating system
or XP (Service Pack 1)
or XP (Service Pack 2)
or XP (Service Pack 3).
(There are actually 'Home' and 'Pro' versions of XP as well, but that's not relevant here).

The Service Packs are FREE downloads, so there's no reason that you should need to pay anything to update your operating system. (And I can't think of any reason why you would need to upgrade Microsoft Office components to get security software to run. You don't even need Microsoft Office on your computer at all!).

[Buenchico]

So your post makes very little sense to me. Further, there's absolutely no need to download any McAfee product at all. Your PC needs a decent firewall, such as Zone Alarm Free Edition:
http://www.zonealarm....ity-free-firewall.htm
Then it needs a decent anti-virus program, such as AVG Free:
http://free.avg.com/gb-en/homepage
Lastly it needs at least one anti-malware program. such as Ad-Aware Free:
http://www.lavasoft.c...cts/ad_aware_free.php
although, to deal with something that's already causing problems, many people would recommend using the free version of Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware.

Chris

[Buenchico]

Oops!
I missed out the final link:
http://www.malwarebytes.org/

[TTG]

Malwarebytes is free and good.