Hey guys, my girlfriends laptop may have a virus on it that avg is not picking up, what would you suggest i use? thanks in advance
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20-05-12, 16:34 #1Bright Spark Reputation: 228
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Anti virus
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20-05-12, 17:01 #2Enthusiast Reputation: 276
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I personally always use F-Secure, they have a free online scanner that is really good to scan a system thoroughly and it will free of charge help to get rid of any malware it finds:
http://www.f-secure.com/en/web/home_...e-online-tools
There are quite a few free anti-virus scanners out there but I have always found the above to be really good.
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20-05-12, 17:23 #3Expert Reputation: 3128
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I use Norton, never had a problem with it, but obviously you have to pay for it.
I've heard other talk about Malware Bytes as being good
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mse might be worth trying
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Originally Posted by leea12345
mse might be worth trying
MSE is my AV of choice, does me proud.
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20-05-12, 17:57 #6Member Reputation: 1
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Also MBAM used in conjunction with MSE is good.
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21-05-12, 09:49 #7Grand Master Moderator Reputation: 5428
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avast is also a good free one, has a boot time scan feature
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Malware Bytes and Avast should do the job. AVG is not as good as it once was.
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22-05-12, 05:14 #9Member Reputation: 73
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Why do you think it has a virus that AVG isn't picking up? The chances of that are very very very small.
It likely has some other problem.--
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