Can any of you boys or girls recommend a computer security scannery type thing that I can download to do a virus check, diagnosis and repair on my home computer?

Preferably something that can just be downloaded, installed and activated.

Thank you.

If your using a PC try windows one car its free for a month at least and has worked well for me, if its a mac im buggered if i know ! ( hahahaha ! ) JC

That would ne one care not one car ! link here

http://onecare.live.com/site/en-us/default.htm?mkt=en-us

Thank you for that.  I might give it a try.

But what do I do after the first month?

you have to pay ! Its not much though and covers upto 3 computers think it was £35 / £40. Also backs up automatically.

Sounds quite sexy.

each to thier own !

Humper - 14 May 2008 07:37 AM

a virus check, diagnosis and repair

I recommend using Spybot Search&Destroy; (which finds trojans, browserhijacks, dialers, suspicious files etc. and is free software (as in beer)) and FreeAV as your virusscanner (wich is free for personal use and does a great job).
Well, your last request “repair” is somwhat difficult. What do you think has to be repaired? Btw I don’t trust those one-for-all-tools with whizbang userinterfaces…

By repair I meant get rid of whatever is there and shouldn’t be there.

Thanks for your help.

Humper - 14 May 2008 11:02 AM

By repair I meant get rid of whatever is there and shouldn’t be there.

Thanks for your help.

Yes, spybot does that. You’re welcome!

Ok…

Use Grisoft AVG free for anti-virus...It’s better than 90% of the ‘paid for’ rest...and beat most of the others in tests…

Use Spybot (Search and Destroy) and use the ‘Tea Timer’ settings and ‘Immunize’ settings..

Use Spware Blaster to do the same as Spybot

All the above are free...and offer an excellent level of protection...AVG and Spybot will scan and repair

DB

This is what I was looking for.  Thanks boys.

I use Lavasoft’s free AdAware in addition to DB’s recommendations. It often finds stuff that Spybot misses.

i use adaware, spybot, AVG and CCleaner

CCleaner’s a great freebie, get it here, folks. 

I recommend ‘CCleaner’ as well…

Set it to 7 passes when removing shit leftover files..

Be a bit more wary of the Registry Cleaner bit of the program tho’…

DB