Re: My PC Protection

What's wrong with WinPatrol and AdAware?

I like WinPatrol as it tells me when something is being added to the
startup, for some reason, everytime I open Real Player it tries to add it to
the Startup.

Have been using AVG for about a year now and only installed Avast after
reading about it on here. What are the best Sensitivity settings, presently
everything is set to Normal?

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Gerry (The MOTH)

"Panda_man" <Pandaman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:91050E00-F695-4698-A14C-38DC3C2B5F95@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"Gerry (The MOTH)" wrote:

PART 1

this is what
I've got installed on my laptop to ensure I'm virus, spyware and malware
free
...
Am I being paranoid or do I need anything else installed?


PART 2

Haven't had any problems so far.



Paranoid is the exact word in this case :-)

Gerry , you'll definitely have problems running more than one AV in
real-time.
I prefer Avast to AVG so I recommend you goto Start->Settings->Control
Panel->Add/Remove programs and uninstall AVG antivirus
Restart after that

Make sure Avast is running and protecting by testing with the harmless
Eicar
test file by Eicar.org
http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_file.htm

From the antispyware tools you can also uninstall WinPatrol and Ad-Aware
se


Regards!
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Panda_man
Silver level Contributor


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