virus protection

Apologies if this has been posted before - I have been a longtime Linux user (switching after running into many frustrating issues with Windows XP), but recently bought a decent PC with Windows 7 so I could get back into gaming. I've only had it for a little over a month and have already ran...

I have been working with a laptop at my workplace running on windows 7 and I had to mess with the settings for the hard drive to only allow administrators access to the drive. After I did that, I was unable to gain access to anything that requires the administrator. I cannot access my hard drive...

I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit. Whenever Windows updates, all updates fail with a error Code: 8007371B. I have disabled my firewall, Virus protection, ect. and nothing helps. I cannot find this error code anywhere for an explaination. Please help.

As a new member, let me say, I have searched the forum for a solution to my problem, and discovered many great ideas, but none have fixed my problem. I'm running Win 7 Home Premium on a home built desktop with an Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe MB, and an AMD processor. It only has a single 160g HD...

Hello, I am not sure if this is the right place for this but anyway here it goes. In general I know (or think) you should do things like run registry cleaner, defragment, duplicate finder, spybot, etc... in order to keep you computer running well. I noticed programs like Norton and Bitdefender...

I'm going on 2 months now, pulling my hair out at this point with an issue(s) I cannot seem to solve. here's my symptoms, my specs, my steps so far to troubleshoot. Any help is appreciated. Symptoms: My video is choppy, jumpy or fast playing in QuickTime, and Media player freezes or won't play...

Hi Any advice on how best to remove trojans? BACKGROUND At the bottom right of my Windows7 screen, the Action Center gave me the following alerts: - "Remove the W32/Gaobot.worm.genu - Win32/RBot.3eu!Worm virus" and - "Remove the Trojan.PWS.Legmir.AD / W32.Ahlem.A@mm virus" Strangely the...

I have installed the game and it did that just fine, now I got that done and when I try to go to the game and try and play it it seems that its loading and in the task manager its there saying its running but it does not show, my virus and firewall are all off, any help would be great, thanks again

hi, i m having a problem with all the OS except window XP and lower, i.e. when i insert any cd containg autorun.inf file in the cd/dvd drive, then it does not run the setup.exe file automatically. What's the hell? Everytime when i m in hurry and want that setup should run auto, then it does not...

I just completed a successful upgrade from Win Vista HP to Win 7 Ulitimate. It went well but the Win 7 system is telling me that I have no virus etc protection and wants me to turn Norton on. It is on and when I hit the yes button in Win 7 to turn it on it does not do it. Any suggestions? Thanks!

Today i went to bestbuy and bought my parents a new Hp p6230y desktop. I got home and started up the computer and everthing went as normal. After all the updates and the computer was setup, i browsed the internet and it was fine. As soon as i installed Norton Internet Security 2010, the internet...

mainly valve cause thats all i really play. ok well ive had this problem before and i had fixed it, came down to it being my caviar green 1tb drive, then went out and got a caviar black 1tb, and that had fixed it for a while. now its sort of back. this time it happens once in a blue moon. and...

I cannot turn off the virus protection from McAfee. Does McAfee interfer with windows 7 operations?:eek:

I've upgraded from Vista Premium Home to Windows 7, home and now I have to boot twice. The first boot I get a blank black monitor, I have to manually shot the computer and boot again and log into windows on the prompt: "start windows in standard mode". Also, I have McAfee virus protection...

My upgrade disk is asking me to uninstall Trend Micro Internet Security 2007. I have done that and rebooted but I still get hungup at the same point. I have no virus protection software on my PC. How can I get past this and complete the installation? Thanks

My upgrade disk is asking me to uninstall Trend Micro Internet Security 2007. I have done that and rebooted but I still get hungup at the same point. I have no virus protection software on my PC. How can I get past this and complete the installation? Thanks

I just installed Windows 7 Ultimate 2 days ago and now the "Solve PC Issues" on the bottom right hand corner of the screen says that my Virus Protection and Fire wall are not on. I made sure my Norton is working and on but it keeps saying it is off. Any solutions?

So, I've done a clean install with the Win7 ultimate signature adition twice now. the first install was running awesome until i tranfereed my files and found a trojan so I started all over and did a second clean install this time it wanted to make 2 partions so i did that. have kaspersky 2010...

Hey everyone. Seem to have a problem. I shut down correctly each night. Every boot up scan disk runs (or tries to ). I am making sure I shut extra programs down such as my messengers and virus protections. What could be causing this? Little nerve racking. I am running W7 build 7100

Are there any risks using the free products versus the purchased products? I have used a variety of the free products and each has produced some false positives. Not sure of they have missed any viruses or not.