How do you turn on your virus protection?

June 1, 2009

I recently was experiencing a lot of pop-ups so I decided to download a different virus protection called "avast". But stupid me, I forgot to uninstall my old virus protection software(Norton) and now my computer automatically turned off the virus protection. I'm not sure what to do? Is there a way to turn it back on? Do I have to uninstall 'avast'?
If I need to uninstall norton, how do i do it?

Where can I find a free microsoft windows registry cleaner that is safe?

June 1, 2009

More and more when I try to connect to the internet I keep getting pop-up's that there are fatal error's in my registry from all types of places such as fixmyregistry.com, www.windowsregistrycleaner.com. I don't have a credit card so what is the best safe freeware or shareware? Should I pay attention to these pop_ups? Everytime they come up they keep me from connecting to the internet and force me to use ctr+alt+del to restart my computer because I cannot access my start menu (the little hour glass shows when I go to it) HELP!