Okay Flisters, help the useless uninformed person

[clocketpatch]

What would be a good antivirus program for me to download? Preferably free, but I'm willing to pay (better that then get my computer killed). I'd been using AVG free, but they've cut the update support and I've been dead in the water for a few months, and now my laptops doing suspicious slow running thing and I'm just ever so slightly concerned.

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[garpu.livejournal.com]

http://www.avira.com/en/pages/index.php

Haven't booted into windows in ages, but I was using that. AVG sees any other boot loader on the MBR as a virus and deletes it. Kind of sucks if you use LILO and also boot linux.

[clocketpatch]

I found mostly good reviews for it, so I'll try that, thanks. Hopefully it works!

[garpu.livejournal.com]

Could either be good or bad, but it ignores your MBR

[alouzon.livejournal.com]

Ad Aware is very good (and they have a free version), but it's mostly anti-spyware than a total anti-virus solution. I don't currently have it on my computer because my purchased anti-virus is paranoid about having any other anti-spyware on the hard-drive. It might be able to get rid of whatever is on your computer.

http://www.lavasoft.com/

I currently have Kaspersky running on my computer, and nothing has slipped by it in two years. They update their updates hourly, instead of daily. I paid $80 for it, but it's worth it for the peace of mind.

http://usa.kaspersky.com/products_services/HomeProducts.php

There is a link to a free scan of your computer to see if there is anything, but I think in order to squash it, you will actually need to purchase the product. Try it and see!

[abbyromana.livejournal.com]

If you don't mind paying, I find Norton to be good and reliable. However, it costs 50 U.S. dollars. But they might have cheaper packages if you check out it's web site.

[alouzon.livejournal.com]

Norton let through viruses on my computer, I'll never trust it again.

[stellastars]

I've heard good things about Avast (and I believe the home edition is free) but I have not used it. You might find this list to be useful.

Google Pack also offers a few virus/spyware programs for free.