OT - AntiVirus software

[Lurker]

My home computer...bought last Dec...has become infected.  With the purchase I had a one year subscription to MicroTrend antivirus protection.  It seemed to be doing a good job giving me warnings on blocking some viruses and almost all the spyware.  Regular scans seemed to take care of what slipped through.  I was considering renewing it since my system was running smoothly.  However over the past weekend I found several trojan horses on my system (delself, brastk, getmodule).  The software said it was (is ?) quarantining these items but my computer is still badly infected.

I have found software and guidance to clean the system up.  I am not interested in giving up windows or explorer.  I would consider myself an above average user and run scans/cleansing on a regular basis.  I actually know the difference between "Enter" and "Return" (one is on the left side and one is on the right side) so can handle almost any installation and configuration work.  Just looking for recommendations.

Any and all thoughts will be read...some will even be appreciated.   

[westkoast]

I use NOD32 and I think it is by far the best anti-virus software out.  Really have had 0 problems.  It has a smaller foot print on your machine and seems to do the trick every time.

[WayOutWest]

AVG Free Edition.  Bunch of IT people at work use it so I jumped on it instead of paying for Norton and McAfee.  Not one single problem since.  The only difference between the free edition and the one you pay for is you don't get tech support for the free one.  Daily virus updates, it takes about a minute at log on to boot but other than that it's been great.

[jn]

Thanks all.   Lurker you beat me to this.  I have been having some of the same problems, including delself and getmodule.   At one point I had something really nasty on there and had to take it in to have it cleaned up.  The store put avast! on there for a freee 60 day trial but I'm not entirely happy with it.

WOW is AVG entirely free?   I feel like a number of the so-called free systems will run a free check then charge to actually quarantine.   

[westkoast]

Thanks all.   Lurker you beat me to this.  I have been having some of the same problems, including delself and getmodule.   At one point I had something really nasty on there and had to take it in to have it cleaned up.  The store put avast! on there for a freee 60 day trial but I'm not entirely happy with it.

WOW is AVG entirely free?   I feel like a number of the so-called free systems will run a free check then charge to actually quarantine.   

Free for personal use.  AVG works well but I like NOD32 better (I got it for free but it is not free like AVG)

[WayOutWest]

Thanks all.   Lurker you beat me to this.  I have been having some of the same problems, including delself and getmodule.   At one point I had something really nasty on there and had to take it in to have it cleaned up.  The store put avast! on there for a freee 60 day trial but I'm not entirely happy with it.

WOW is AVG entirely free?   I feel like a number of the so-called free systems will run a free check then charge to actually quarantine.   

Zero cost jn, but you have to be a little bit of a detective to find the FREE version vs the TRIAL version.  I got the FREE version and it's only for personal use.

[Reality]

Have you asked Pop and Finley what to do?

The uber geeks i know echo what WoW and westkoast said, AGV and NOD 32.

Now if you want to get into FBI CIA level stuff.....

[SPURSX3]

Thanks all.   Lurker you beat me to this.  I have been having some of the same problems, including delself and getmodule.   At one point I had something really nasty on there and had to take it in to have it cleaned up.  The store put avast! on there for a freee 60 day trial but I'm not entirely happy with it.

WOW is AVG entirely free?   I feel like a number of the so-called free systems will run a free check then charge to actually quarantine.   

I have used avg for years, works well, and there are decent spyware removers you can use also to get rid of the other stuff.