Okay, I'll try some of the others and check the Avast log - I don't think I've ever checked that before. Thanks Mike! Wendy
--- On Wed, 3/16/11, mike bader <[email protected]> wrote: From: mike bader <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [A-1-Computer_Tech] Re: My computer is slow and I'm getting error messages. To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, March 16, 2011, 6:48 PM Wendy I doubt any program will run in sleep mode. Avast is pretty good. It works for a whole year after you register it. Keep it updated and check your settings that it is running, that it is finishing. Check the log to see if it is getting rid of them or just finding them. I have mixed feeling about using Microsoft Security Essentials. It is free, no pop-up adds and it doesn't expire. Avast does better head to head IMO. AVG is good but takes a while to run, and tries to trick you into buying, I like Avira. But I would suggest running other programs once in a while. Malware Bytes, SuperAntiSpyware. I have many that I run on badly infected systems to clean them. mike bader On 3/16/2011 6:10 PM, Wendy Schofield wrote: > Thank you Donk! I think I have some blank DVDs, and I also have an external > USB hard drive. My daughter downloaded some music to my external hard drive > from her computer, but she said that she had to do something (reconfigure it > to fat 32 files? does that sound right?), and I'm clueless as to how to use > it. > Also, when I go to my computer and try to figure out what's on each of the > drives as soon as I click on one my computer just stops and I get a spinning > blue circle. At that point the only thing I can do is use the power button to > shut the computer down, which I'm sure is not good. > I have another question - we have Avast as our anti-virus protection, but > it's missing a lot of viruses. When we did a scan it found 8 Trojans on the > hard drive, then we ran a boot scan and there were pages of viruses on that. > My question is this - is Avast unable to scan while the computer is in sleep > mode? We leave our computer on at night and Avast is scheduled to run at > 3:00am, but I'm wondering if it's unable to scan at that time because the > computer goes into sleep mode ( I think) after 20 minutes of not being used. > Is Avast a good anti-virus program? If not, can you recommend one? And, > should I try to disable the sleep mode if that is what's interferring with > Avast? > > Thanks! > > Wendy > > --- On Wed, 3/16/11, Donk<[email protected]> wrote: > ------------------------------------ If you have any questions or problems with any aspect of this site, please feel free to contact me directly [email protected] Please do not post personal issues directly to the group. To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to [email protected] Thank you for using A-1 Computer TechYahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ If you have any questions or problems with any aspect of this site, please feel free to contact me directly [email protected] Please do not post personal issues directly to the group. To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to [email protected] Thank you for using A-1 Computer TechYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/A-1-Computer_Tech/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/A-1-Computer_Tech/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
