window problem

[kenney408]

I just remove a couple of viruses in my computer. for some reason sometime my computer shut down on it own. Doest that mean i still have some viruses. if so how come i couldnt detect it?

 

[Turkbear]

Hi, what anti-virus are you using? Sometimes one is better at detecting than others..






To Paraphrase:"The Help you get is proportional to the Help you give.."

 

[kenney408]

i use norton antivirus. which one would u recommend?

 

[bigbadbet]

Norton is good, however there are a lott of alternatives out there, but they meen didilly squat if you don't update regularly - i recommend once a day. In the old days it used to be once a month but that was because there was only new viruses coming out once a month. Then it went to once per week, once every couple of days, now it's as soon as a signature for a new virus has been released there are new ones coming out. So make sure it's updated.
Also make sure you have a firewall (not windows firewall its useless), lso make sure you have antispyware ( i use several, all of which are free - eg adaware,spybot sd, ASquared)
Also make sure you have all the latest updates from MS
If you do all this you should be able to keep your pc fairly clean.
Tim
MCSA, A+, Network+