[cva66snipe]

BTW Spybot runs in the background. It should pick up on anything wishing to change the registry on the computer. I had McAfee Security on a Laptop {came with it}. I'm on dial up and it was taking it several hours to do updates so I deleted it and went with Avast. Before that I used AVG but it no longer scans e-mails so I dropped it. I'm keep three machines going with the same protections. Avast updates several times per day and is pretty quick about it even on dial up.

On the other programs I mentioned make sure you keep them updated and do occasional full scans at least once every two weeks or so.

Oh yea with Avast run the scan in normal range. The full scan takes probably 8 hours and really isn't necessary. The basic virus scan will take about 30 minutes and won't interfere with your memory doing other task. IOW not much RAM drain on the system. The scan set up takes a little bit of gettting used to at first.

[LuLuLuLu]

None of those work with Linux. Any ideas for those of us who won’t use the Bill Gates approved software?

[ansel12]

The avast scan depends on the computer, on my 2002 pentium 4 the deep scan only takes about 150 minutes on my other really cheap $199.00 2003 computer it takes about 5 hours.

I only do deep scans and I do them a lot, once you get in the habit it is no problem, when I am leaving the computer I flip on a scan based on what I am doing, if I’m going to work I do a avast scan, if I’m watching a DVD or going to the store I do a antispyware scan.

I guess with newer, better computers that you can do your scans while you are on the computer with out noticing it.