newbie blonde inspriron user

[caralord]

ok, i do not understand all the different programs : AVG, TREND MICRO, NORTON GHOST, do i need all of these. my d drive shows 3 files:
c_drive001 4,970,368 kb, & c_drive001-i004 730,496 kb & d718zwbi recovery 2 kb,
could this be part of my problem, my computer is less than 6 months old and has slowed down, help, i am over whelmed with all these diff scanners & protection & back up

[joshSCH]

You really only need one virus protection software. I prefer avast, but avg works too. Also, it may be wise to download a spyware detection software such as spyware doctor or ad-aware.

What exactly is your problem?

[caralord]

You really only need one virus protection software. I prefer avast, but avg works too. Also, it may be wise to download a spyware detection software such as spyware doctor or ad-aware.

What exactly is your problem?

thanks for responding, i am confused
my concern is i have atleast 3 different programs running, do they do the same thing, Norton, Trend, AVG?
and all the Norton files are backed up in my d drive, do i save all? are they slowing me down

[joshSCH]

yea they all do the same thing.. As for norton, I personally think it sucks. It doesn't do as well as avast, and people always have problems with it..

[caralord]

yea they all do the same thing.. As for norton, I personally think it sucks. It doesn't do as well as avast, and people always have problems with it..

should i uninstall norton

[joshSCH]

It would free up some disk space and perhaps make your system run faster. It won't do any harm... make sure you download avg or avast though.

[caralord]

It would free up some disk space and perhaps make your system run faster. It won't do any harm... make sure you download avg or avast though.

i have avg, thanks for your suggestions

[MidiMagic]

When two virus checkers are running, they waste a lot of time checking each other's activites.

[caralord]

When two virus checkers are running, they waste a lot of time checking each other's activites.

thanks, that makes a lot of sense, so if i should choose 1 program of the 3 i have, considering money as a big factor, what would be my best protection?

by the way i ran REGCURE & XoftSpySE, after running both programs got fatal error messages, panostandalone - 1719 & hpqtra08.exc: could not get them to go away, and had to do a restore from 2 days prior. which wasted 2 days of debugging. now i can not get any help from the parent co. paretologic.
not sure what happened? anyone have any suggestions?

[joshSCH]

thanks, that makes a lot of sense, so if i should choose 1 program of the 3 i have, considering money as a big factor, what would be my best protection?

by the way i ran REGCURE & XoftSpySE, after running both programs got fatal error messages, panostandalone - 1719 & hpqtra08.exc: could not get them to go away, and had to do a restore from 2 days prior. which wasted 2 days of debugging. now i can not get any help from the parent co. paretologic.
not sure what happened? anyone have any suggestions?

I suggest using avast, its free- and one of the best out there. AVG works too..

Hmm.. I suggest you download regcleaner(Regcure is probably fine) and ad-aware SE personal (they are both free). Then boot into safe mode and run an avast thorough virus scan. Then run regcleaner and the ad-aware program.