Why is my virus protection turned off on occasion?

2 thoughts on “Why is my virus protection turned off on occasion?”

1. One Computer Guy says:

   March 20, 2011 at 12:48 am

   First and foremost, these are MY opinions and have experience several machines that had these on them,
   as well as users using these product. Not to mention that I have ran each and every one of these myself
   so as to not confuse those that think that I have not.
   My findings in these products are useless and sometimes scare the normal user.
   Also, these products are not for the normal user as normal user do not take the time to read the
   manuals/docs for what they download and or buy, they just want to install and use.

   Stop using the following software:
   — AVG —
   -Avg has been known to report false positives, also reports "tracking cookies" as "Trojan downloaders".
   This is bad practice to me, scaring the user half to death because that’s all that we hear on the news
   anymore is about Trojans, Worms and Virus’
   -Maybe free, but be aware that this product is not the normal product that you would put on a machine.
   Most if not all of your experts will tell you to leave this alone, avoid it like the plaque

   — Ad Aware SE —
   -Ad Aware is a dangerous program if you do not know how to set it up, although it comes with the basic
   ‘normal’ user settings, those that go messing about will find after changing the settings, will remove
   things from the Windows System and then be stuck in a bad situation.

   — Spybot Search and Destroy —
   -Same as Ad Aware Se

   — Ewido —
   -Made By AVG NOW, although AVG (Grisoft) bought them out or merged (which ever you avgt fanatics prefer)
   this product does the same as their software (av) and scares the user (see above AVG)

   — McAfee —
   -System Hog. Although this product is and has been around for decades, it still isn’t that great of a
   product as it eats up resources like a hungry dog.

   — Housecalls —
   -Not a bad product, but installs while online and no option(s) to UNinstall it.

   — Trendmicro —
   -Not a bad product, but installs while online and no option(s) to UNinstall it.

   — Panda —
   -Not a bad product, but installs while online and no option(s) to UNinstall it.

   — Norton —
   -System Hog. Although this product is and has been around for decades, it still isn’t that great of a
   product as it eats up resources like a hungry dog.
   -Also this product has to use it’s own UNinstaller to get rid of it, even if you take it out of Add Remove
   and reboot your system, this pain in the arse software prompts the user to reinstall or it auto does it

   — eTrust —
   -Now owned by CA MS used to ship this with it’s Feb 2004 Security Update CD set. ( I know I have it ) and what
   a load of rubbish.

   — Kaspersky —
   -Maybe free, but be aware that this product is not the normal product that you would put on a machine.
   Most if not all of your experts will tell you to leave this alone, avoid it like the plaque

   Decent programs to install and use

   Removal Software

   — Norton Removal Tool —
   Norton Removal Tool here (IF you have Norton):http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/tsgeninfo.nsf/docid/2005033108162039

   DirectX 9 Removal Tool
   http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=522

   Turning off Services
   Turning off MS Messenger services http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/security/learnmore/stopspam.mspx
   Double Click your Clock – Click the Internet Time TAB – Uncheck Automatically sync time. Click APPLY click OK

   Anti – Virus’
   AVAST HERE http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html

   Anti – Spyware
   X-Cleaner http://www.xblock.com/download/xclean_micro.exe CLICK RUN
   Same As Above But You see the site http://www.spywareguide.com/onlinescan.php
   Spyware Blaster http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/sbdownload.html
   Super Anti Spyware http://downloads2.superantispyware.com/downloads/SUPERAntiSpyware.exe

   Win Socket Fix
   http://www.snapfiles.com/get/winsockxpfix.html

   DCOM Fix
   http://www.grc.com/freeware/dcom.htm

   Misc Cleaners:
   Ccleaner – http://www.ccleaner.com/
   Easy Cleaner – http://personal.inet.fi/business/toniarts/ecleane.htm
   Reg Seeker – http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm

   Removing Rouge Software
   Rouge List – http://www.spywarewarrior.com/rogue_anti-spyware.htm
   Removing Virus Protect Pro http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic98219.html

2. podwarrior7 says:

   March 20, 2011 at 12:48 am

   Uninstall whatever you’re using and get AVG antivirus for free from http://free.grisoft.com

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