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Virus protection in or pc i have adware virus what can i do

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Avast Home Edition is free for 14 months and in my opinion it is better than Kaspersky. Check out www.avast.com and download the home edition of this software. It also allows you to do a DOS base boot that will scan your whole hard drive before windows loads. This will allow you to clean your computer completely. Alll you have to do is register the program and you are set for 14 months and then you can renew after that. No cost. You can't beat that.

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Just download the trial version of kaspersky antivirus its free and scan your conputer its a trial version for just 30 days if you want a full version antivirus then go for avg 8 my suggestion is for now install kasperky n after the trial period install the avg 8 to download kaspersky internet security click the link below

http://209.85.175.104/search?q=cache:VMgSgiTD-dIJ:www.kaspersky.com/de/20814_72814_329+kis+free+dowload&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=in
for avg 8 click the link below
http://209.85.175.104/search?q=cache:ypu2SPFV5dQJ:www.topshareware.com/avg-8/downloads/1.htm+avg+8+for+free&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=in
hope this definately solves this problem

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A computer virus will damage your computer and could destroy your data.
You should install a virus scanning software on your computer.
There are free virus scanning programs on the Internet, I recommend these.
Microsoft Security Essentials
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=5201

AVGFree

http://free.avg.com/us-en/download-free-antivirus
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USE ANTIVIRUS SOFTWARE
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IE stops responding frequently. Cleaned out spyware ran scan by Norton 360 but it still happens

Use any Antispyware or Malware to remove the spyware mostly spyware make this issues. if not try to reinstall internet explorer or update to the latest version.
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I'm assuming you mean "AdAware". If so, the answer is: No, you don't have to but it's advisable. This is because the Kaspersky software performs pretty much the same function as AdAware (as well as its other functions). So if you had both of them running, you'd have two products doing the same thing which would impact the PC's performance to some extent. Having said that, if the PC is quick enough for you, having both of them won't do any harm.

So, you could
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  • Just uninstall AdAware
  • Leave them both installed if it causes you no problems.
whichever you find works better for you.

You'll find folks who'll come down heavily in favour of one solution or the other but in reality, there's nothing much to choose between them.
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