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Why pay for an antivirus that you have to continue
to pay for every year? Especially when they slow
your system down and even cause more errors and
problems than they fix? AVG Free Antivirus is 100%
free. Always has been and (hopefully) always will
be. AVG Free Antivirus is the same free antivirus
program we've been using since it was version 6
several years ago. It's also the very same antivirus
we use on our own computers! Why? Because it works!
While there's no antivirus program that will protect
you 100% from any and all viruses, and while there
are plenty of other truly free antivirus programs
available, AVG Free does the best job in our
opinion.
**Installation note** Make sure when you do the
installation, you do a CUSTOM install (versus
a "typical" install) and when you get to the options
you see here, UNcheck the first two (where I have
the two red X's) and then check the four I have
shown checked:
MalwareBytes is a great program for removing
spyware, malware and even some viruses and Rootkits.
This is yet another free program that does it's job
and does it well. The difference between the free
and the "paid-for" version of MalwareBytes is the
paid-for, or the "full" version has "Real-Time"
scanning. That means it runs all the time, not just
when you manually start the program and start the
scanning. Just make sure you click the tab to update
the program before each time you use it.
ThreatFire Free Edition<--click
to download
ThreatFire is the newest addition of
programs we install on each computer we perform our
popular
Basic System Cleanup service on. ThreatFire
works differently from most other
Anti-Virus / Anti-Malware programs. Most programs depend on the latest "definitions update"
from your anti-virus / anti-malware program to
detect and remove a virus or spyware. So what
happens when you get infected by one where a fix hasn't been
released to the public yet? That's where ThreatFire
works. What it does is it looks at a file's behavior
to see if it's doing something that known viruses
and spyware do when they get activated. Whether it's
opening ports on your computer, to replicating
itself several hundred times, to opening up an
Internet connection without your knowledge. So when
it detects this, it notifies you to find out what to
do.
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