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07-13-2011, 07:08 PM

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Ceil

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Originally Posted by quiltinghere

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Originally Posted by Ceil

1. Get rid of McAfee (I gave up on it when it was slowing down my computers) and get the free Microsoft Security Essentials. I've been running it on three computers for over two years now with no problems. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/secur...s/default.aspx
2. Download CCleaner http://www.piriform.com/CCLEANER and run this weekly.
3. Download the free version of Malwarebytes: http://www.malwarebytes.org/ This is one of the best programs for getting rid of viruses.
4. Download the free http://www.superantispyware.com/ This will alert you to any problems. While you cannot have two Security programs running at the same time you can and should have more than one anti-spyware program.
5. I use firefox as my browser and have WOT as an add-on. It will id unsafe sites: http://www.mywot.com/

I downloaded #4 - let it scan (took about 10 minutes) - it came up with 23 cookies and one other 'thing' - rebooted and I can see a difference in my 'surfing' ability.

Thanks so much!

:) Glad to help. Make sure you use #3 too as it seems to be one of the "go to" programs to use when you do get infected. Don't rely on just one of these.

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