av software

Hey folks! I've been driving myself nuts for the past couple hours trying to find the answer to that. I know that having two AV running real-time protection is defintley a bad idea, but, I was wondering about just breaking one out as solely a scanner. Any thoughts? Thanks for having me...

Win10 21H1 -1083 I have a program that hangs when it opens. I tried to reinstall it and the install just quits. On another computer it runs fine. Same OS, same versions, same AV. It does not use a browser. The database is OK. It worked some time ago on W10 but I don't know what version. It is an...

I'm sure this has been answered many times but I am going to ask anyway. Is the above ok to use by itself or should I d.l. another av program. I would rather not add another one but want to make sure I'm protected. I also have Malwarebytes trial version on board. I'm hoping those 2 will take...

Hello, again. I was wondering if it's advisable to run SFC /scannow on a regular basis, or only if your PC is experiencing issues, sort of similar to running an AV program regularly. What say you? Thanks...Ed

I am helping a friend. Right now I am not at his place and have not all information in front of me, sorry for that. At some later time I will continue there, but now I am collecting all help and information I can get. It goes about this: The download of W10 completes, Preparing for Install...

I have a networking problem which has persisted for many weeks no matter what I try to fix it. The basic setup has been running for 7 years without this issue. The network is a Flight Simulator with a main Windows 7 PC driving the Flight Sim software and also acting as a server for another four...

Win 8.1 Pro 32-bit Right now I have MBAM free edition. Windows defender. Thinking of upgrading to paid MBAM version in order to have real time protection. I have just 5 days ago uninstalled Avast free edition. Qestions : 1. Malwarebytes Premium 2.0 $29.95 Canadian 1 year subscription. 1...

I have 4 computers on my home network, 3 of which are running Windows 7 pro, and the other one is Windows Vista home. All of the computers are in the same workgroup (I tried using homegroup as well, but it worked terribly and I disabled it), all of them have the same network settings (file and...

For example, I keep VMs of legacy Windows for client support. IF, for whatever reasons, you are running VMs of Operating Systems remember they, too, require updating... (their) browsers, Adobe, Java, Microsoft Updates, security tool(s) for A-V & A-M, CCleaner, et al; AND the same TLC, too...

Today, I upgraded my Firefox 11.0 to 12.0 on Windows 2000, & got a warning. That there will be no more support or updates for FF 12 on the OS. Users who wants updates must stick with FF 11 or lower. And that users should upgrade to Windows 7. Or if these users wants to keep a modern browser...

Hi! I am working on a customers computer, Windows XP home. It was hit with a nasty virus. I have removed the virus with AV software booted from a CD. It removed many many viruses. Now, when I try to boot, it doesn't even make it to the Windows XP screen. It just keeps rebooting, and asking...

I have a HP laptop and yesterday I turned it on and it started but once start-up was complete, I couldn't open anything. I tried opening an internet browser, documents, and then my anti-virus software but nothing was happening. I restarted my computer and opened it in Safe Mode where I ran my...

hi, about a month ago my vaio laptop started freezing on youtube . i mean everything was frozen and i had to restart it manually. and then it started freezing on avi files.wether i play the avi file on wmp, vlc or real player, the duration of the freezing was about a minute or two every 20-30...

I recently purchased a clone system running Windows 7 Pro 64-bit and have found that all browsers are blocking web sites on the system . Originally, the message said "Site not found" even though I can easliy access them all from my XP Pro machine. I even have a problem logging into a member site...

right to begin i keep getting blue screen, it says NTFS.SYS i have the eset nod 32 as my AV but when i did a clean install of windows 7 with no AV the samething happened but it also comes up wth some oter things wihnumber every so often :( i use my computer to record artists and i have a good...

There's a number of different AV program on the market today, and I thought it could be a good controversial thread to create.. Vote and post why you like the anti-virus, if you selected "other" make sure to tell us the name of the one you're using. I, myself have been switching around a lot...

I've been running the release candidate of Win 7 quite happily for some time (3 mo or so). A late update to my AVG antivirus program has caused the system to freeze and not respond. The msg is AVGTrayMainWnd is not responding. I am unable to access or shut it down. The only thing I am able to do...

Hello, Well, I cant browse pages at all. I've tried to shut down my AV and turn off the firewall using port 81 or any other port . . . Any way, can I browse pages without IIS installed ? I do think so because the meanning of the development server is to seperate the vs from the IIS . . ...

Hi there, This new problem I have started facing after I rolled back Kaspersky WKS from build 1071 to build 1015. WMP has completely stopped working. It just does not open up. I tried exiting the KAV but still no effect. VLC and Media player classic seems to be working fine. I do not know what...

I've been using G-Data with Vista, but will keep crashing my Win7 64. Heard Norton 360 isn't working either. Any sensible suggestions?