viruses

[ronnie3]

i have avg free protection thingy, sorry don't really know much about pc's, on my computer only now i have 4 viruses so is it no good, i heard about it on here, would it be best to buy a protection thingy i used to have norton but it ran out and it cost about �30 to reregister is this worth it or is there a better one or cheaper one. thanks in advance

[Ethel]

What sort of viruses? Not everything detected be those programmes are necessarily bad.

Read this page - make sure you have a firewall - I like ZoneAlarm, at least one anti-virus - I use AVG, a spyware detector such as Spybot and a trojan detector such as A squared. They are all free and can be downloaded from here:

http://cgi3.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewUs erPage&userid=cuddly-hippo

I would be interested to know which viruses you have. There really is no need to pay for any software.

[Toureman]

I always use Norton Antivirus and I have never had any viruses.

You do not have to pay for the annual Re-Register!

Each year when mine runs out I go on ebay and buy last years complete new norton which of course has a years virus updates included for peanuts and load in to my computer.

[rojash]

How do you know you have 4 viruses? If you mean that AVG is telling you this then they will have been quarantined, so you don't actually have a problem.

[tellboy]

Have you missed the point ?The whole idea of AVG Anti Virus is to find a virus for you.

If you dont like the idea of it finding a virus then dont have it.

[pjm007]

Is it being kept updated ?

[ronnie3]

thank you all very much but i have just found out that ntl, whom i'm with, have a free internet security so i have downloaded that a i'm running fine again