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Dudley | 19:37 Sat 26th Nov 2011 | Computers
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Are programs such as Advanced System Care/Aro 2011 really worth having in addition to say AVG? I have both at present but Advanced System Care have offered me an upgrade to a trial Pro edition of ARO 2011 which has supposedly found 14,000 errors' which it says it can 'Fix' if I upgrade for $30 otherwise it won't deal with the errors.
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I can guarantee that it hasn't found anything at all. All you need is AVG free (or similar e.g. Avast) and to run malwarebytes once a week or so.
19:39 Sat 26th Nov 2011
I can guarantee that it hasn't found anything at all. All you need is AVG free (or similar e.g. Avast) and to run malwarebytes once a week or so.
NO! Leave alone.
If it has found anything important it will only be a handful (at most) things that any decent AV program and malwarebytes would find and deal with. The other 13999 things it's found are scaremongering.
^^^^ was about to say exactly what Mark said - but he can type faster than me :)
as can Mr Bags and the blue footed boobies ;)
These fake frightener programs fine dead links, old files and add them up to look like a nightmare. They can be left.
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Thanks Mark, rather what I suspected. I don't apreciate this kind of selling technique. Much appreciated.
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Wow! Whilst I was typing my response to Mark, quite a few more of you concurred with his answer. Thanks to you all also.
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p.s. Do I need to have Malwarebytes AND AVG or do they both provide the same protection please?
You should keep a good AV and Malwarebytes, yes.
(Not that I'm agreeing that AVG is as good as it could be)
You need a good AV product running permanently in the background, and to run malwarebytes manually once a week or so.
things like AVG are always running and protecting you. Malwarebytes isn't, so you switch it on once a week to run a check. They do different things.
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Brilliant! Thanks everyone for such a quick response and unified assessment.
They are much like registry cleaners... they'll find thousands of things that aren't actually causing a problem.
I have just read this thread - can someone suggest where I would get the Malwarebite thing from? Which one should I choose. My Norton is due to run out in 5 days.
Sorry not Norton, MacAfee
Thanks very much Mark. Do I need to remove McAfee before I do anything?
Yes, absolutely! Nothing is guaranteed to shag a system's performance more than multiple AV apps running at the same time...
That's great, thank you so much for your help.

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