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Computer Help and Support

Ron Obvious

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6. Second the Yes on Avast and MalwareBytes and the No on Norton

Reply to Paula Sims (Original post)

Mon Nov 7, 2016, 05:53 PM

Nov 2016

But I'd also recommend Spybot R+D which has the additional nice feature of allowing you to "immunise" your system by setting a whole series of known bad URLs to 127.0.0.1 in your hosts file, effectively preventing any process on your system to connect to those bad URLs.

Any one of those (MalwareBytes, SpyBot, Avast, and Windows Defender) finds things the other don't it seems.

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What base antiviral, anti malware, anti-whatever should I get? [View all] Paula Sims Nov 2016 OP

I think you mean AVAST free JayhawkSD Nov 2016 #3

Second the Yes on Avast and MalwareBytes and the No on Norton Ron Obvious Nov 2016 #6

Thanks all - you are the BEST! Paula Sims Nov 2016 #7

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