Good antivirus and antitrojan, etc.

[eminemvanillaice]

I bought a laptop recently from bestbuy and the geek squad told me to get norton 360 or mcafee as a virus protection. i do not know if they are any good. so far i got avg free on my pc. what free antivirus protections would you recommend i get. after usung my pc for a couple days, i noticed Win 7 Internet Security 2012 thing pop up and said i was infected. it pisses me off because it makes me buy the damn program. i can still use the internet though.
but which antivirus and antitrojans wqould u recommend i get and how can i remove that win 7 internet virus.
i forgot to mention that avg did not seem to detect that win7 virus because i did a full scan and its still there.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

* Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Free
http://www.malwarebytes.org/products/malwarebytes_free

* Superantispyware Free Edition
http://www.superantispyware.com/index.html

Use these 2 ^ Both are free

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Mcafee is pure junk!

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/remove-win-7-internet-security-2012

This will help also ^

 

[nikorr]

Avoid Mcafee at all cost or you'll become paranoid! : )

I agree with all of the above ^^^ .

 

[Guest]

I've been using NOD32 for years and never had problem with viruses in my life. CCleaner and Spybot - Search & Destroy are also good programs.

 

[CaedenV]

Microsoft Security Essentials + Malwarebytes, both free, both easy to use, nither one advertises, and they stay out of the way unless there is a problem.

MSE v4 will be coming out soon which will be greatly improved and include anti-malware definitions finally (meaning potentially no need for malwarebytes any longer)

 

[richboyliang]

Norton or avast are both fine antiviruses, norton is paid and avast is free. Disregard negative comments about norton, for it's kept viruses away since the day I started using it.

 

[JackNaylorPE]

While an avid promoter of free stuff..... there is that saying, ya get what ya pay for. Most vendors seem to be a bit loose on their payment structure. For example, look at Zone Alarm Internet Security Suite and you'll see it costs $40 for 3 PC's for a year. After the 30 days is up you will get a nag screen but after a short while you will get e-mails dropping the price further and further.

I let it expire and then wait till the price gets low enough before re-upping....think it was $29.95 for 5 PC's when I last re-upped. Another one I have had good success with is Bitdefender. I prefer the all in one malware-firewall-AV suites so i don't have to manage 3 programs and, with the free ones, do the manual updates. $10 a box for losing the hassle of manual upgrades, scans etc is easily worth my T & E.

 

[ujaansona]

Get Microsoft Security Essentials from here:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/products/security-essentials

 

[Pyree]

Aviro, Spybot S&D and Comodo.

 

[lucuis]

Another vote for MSE + Malwarebytes, best combo i've used.

 

[cscott_it]

Malwarebytes is good

I'm personally a fan of Kaspersky if you are looking for a good all-in-one solution.

 

[eminemvanillaice]

Best answer selected by eminemvanillaice.

 

[nikorr]

This topic has been closed by Nikorr.