Nod to blacknight, windows live one care sucks, your right!

personally I love eset and nod32 ...

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AVG Free or Anti Vir Free I use both across different parts of our network, both come highly recomended.

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AVG in my opinion, and run a Spybot once in a while, on XP I always swore by SmitFraudFix (typical rip it out if it doesn't fit program though ek!).

Vista makes me smile, but not when it came with McAfee... never going back there again. Norton slows even the most beautiful systems down

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I've tried most of the anti spyware and anti virus software over the last week as my windows live one care subscription is up for renewal....in fairness to microsoft it has worked well...

So far tested this week are:

AVG - Found it not great, failed to pick up anything much

PC Tools - Great picked up everthing, just failed to fix any of it

McAfee - no thanks, i've enough of viruses without installing another one

Norton / Symantec - see mcafee above

Eset - easy download, simple install, very light, completley useless

Computer Associates

Computer Associates is winning by a long mile at the moment, it has impressed me as it did not effect pc performance in any way, it handels spam in outlook without flaw, warns me of any real time threats, all round it's the best i've come across

Now the upsetting bit

None of the above have fixed my problem, what's happening is...let's say i'm on Irish SEO, Marketing & Webmaster Discussion suddenly my browser just jumps straight to party poker website etc, it's as if someone has completley hijacked my browser (it's happening with all browsers, ie, firefox & opera) I'm also getting full page pop ups

Has anyone any ideas what this could be...???

please help, it's driving me crazy.......

Have you tried Windows Defender yet? Also try Sophos Anti-Rootkit and any other free anti-rootkits you can find.

Dont forget to boot into safe mode before installing/scanning with anti-virus software.

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My advice would be backup your main bits and wipe your machine

I advise this from experience .. you can correct various problems only to find new ones ... also if your system has been "infected" you don't know what is actually being missed.

I've repaired various systems for people (friends) and the amount of time you spend sorting these issues out is kinda ridiculous when a nice reinstall would solve all problems and provide you with a clean system. That is of course if you can make the backup of your critical files / applications. You'll notice a slow due on your machine usually due to all the fudge that gets left in your registry and other places.

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