So your computer works like a car sometimes.When you buy a new car, oh how smooth it rides and the performance is amazing, but overtime the performance starts to trend down.Same with the computer, it starts acting slow.There are so many reasons why your computer is slow, one factor is spyware, malware and viruses.These can cause your computer to act slow, sometimes making them useless.Well you may say but I have Norton anti-virus.However I have seen Norton sit in so many computers without having any idea that the computer is infected.So why wait for your geek friend or the geek squad or whatever squad is there to clean your pc for you.
Try one of the software I use it is called Microsoft Security Essential, its free but make sure you have a legal copy of windows.It will remove both viruses, malware and spyware.Good thing is its very light on your system and does not use many resources.Its also been rated one of the best anti-virus out there.Here is the link http://www.microsoft.com/Security_Essentials/
What if your computer is so slow you cannot install anything but you can browse the net.Well we have free online anti-virus scanners that can do the same thing.Two of my favorates are
Eset Online Scanner and Microsoft Live OneCare. For Microsoft Live OneCare make sure you access it using internet explorer, because Microsoft does not like other browsers like firefox.Most of these online scanners will ask you to install a small program on your computer so that it can execute the scan, make sure you do that else more power to the viruses.Anyway check back for more.
Happy downloading.
Thanks for starting this, Steve! It'll really help those of us who need computer advice. Looking forward to more posts!
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