I personally like Malwarebytes' Antimalwarebytes. www.malwarebytes.org Occasionally it gives false positives, so, if in doubt, u might wanna check w/some1. On 5/5/10, George T. Cox <georgetcox@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Wow Jackie! You are so right! I forgot to turn off Avira Anti-Virus > while I ran the scan. I don't use Windows Defender's real-time scanning. > I just run it periodically in case there might be something Avira > overlooked. I've been thinking of uninstalling WD . > > On 5/5/2010 7:10 PM, Jackie McBride wrote: >> George, do u perchance have another antispyware or antivirus running >> at the same time as windows Defender? I personally have never been a >> fan of that software--seen it ham over more machines than I can >> count--but if there are 2 programs of the same type trying to do >> real-time protection on your machine, you're cruisin' for a bruisin'. >> >> > > > -- > -------list-services-below----------- > Regards, John Durham (list moderator) > <http://modecideas.com/contact.html?sig> > Freelists login at //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi > List archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/pchelpers > PC-HELPERS list subscribe/unsub at http://modecideas.com/discuss.htm?sig > Latest news live feeds at http://modecideas.com/indexhomenews.htm?sig > Good advice is like good paint- it only works if applied. > > -- Change the world--1 deed at a time Jackie McBride www.abletec.serverheaven.net Please join me Saturday, 11/7, on my walk against breast cancer by making a donation at: http://main.acsevents.org/goto/larkspur> -- -------list-services-below----------- Regards, John Durham (list moderator) <http://modecideas.com/contact.html?sig> Freelists login at //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi List archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/pchelpers PC-HELPERS list subscribe/unsub at http://modecideas.com/discuss.htm?sig Latest news live feeds at http://modecideas.com/indexhomenews.htm?sig Good advice is like good paint- it only works if applied.