Anti virus

Well thats my Norton one out of date,Anyone recommend one?

avg is pretty standard farrsie and above all else its free. Some of the others would be better at giving advice on this though so please dont rush in as these programmes are hard to get rid of once you have them on unless you are good with the registry settings.

Farrsie use the Windows one its V good, not sure if it only comes with vista you would need to check that out, to be honest you will only need it if you open email attachments from strangers, download from dodgy sites or have bank accounts with millions of pounds in them.

When I say download I mean "browse" every image you see day in - day out is copied onto your pc (downloaded) but they are only held in a temporary folder but this too needs cleaned on a regular basis - INTERNET EXPLORER - TOOLS - INTERNET OPTIONS - DELETE COOKIES AND FOLDERS - word of caution though if you are one of those who ticks "remember my log in/password instead of typing them everytime you will lose all these as they are "Cookies" - if someone gets into (hacks) your PC this will be the first port of call so clean it regular like!

Cookies are also used to spy on you so try a free checker like "spyalert" my best advice would be to find a decent PC magazine site and look through the "FREE" downloads they have, they cant afford to not check the stuff they are offering and will always have an article explaining what it is, even better a PC forum.

Thanks for the advice op, i have never emptied my cookies or folders but will check it out now, i was havn probs lately with sites freezing and pc was runnin very slow so i used the windows virus removal tool, it worked a treat & got rid of loads of virisus, pc is now back to normal.

Dead on,My laptop is vista.As for Clearing the cookies and stuff I do that every other day lol.

I opted for "Microsoft security essentials" it was recommended by a few people and best of all its free.Good job my home computer is flying now for the first time in a couple of years

can you provide a link?

http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/

there ya go.

Think i will give this a go aswell, i done a virus scan last week and there was 100's of viruses to get rid of, cheers Farrsie

Thanks Farrsie, i used your link & everything is spot on, it even got rid of a couple of long standing problems on my pc. n1