Anti Virus

[potty64]

I have Windows Vista which has Windows Firewall. Do I need Norton anti virus as well? I've just uninstalled Norton as the Talk Talk engineer said having both was causing my PC desk top to go slow. Now a sign comes up saying I'm not protected. Advise me please.

[potty64]

OK. It's in the download section but maybe I didn't double click on it as I cant see an orange circle down the right side of my screen or anywhere else come to that. So how do I double click now that the page has gone?!

[Buenchico]

As I said before, your downloads are likely to be in the default location, which is found by going to 'Computer' (from the Start button) and then clicking on 'Downloads'.

NB: If you didn't download and run the Norton Removal Tool (rather than simply trying to uninstall Norton via your control panel) you need to do that FIRST!!!

[potty64]

Buenchico, I can't find Norton anti virus anywhere. Now AVAST is running a scan and is doing a Browser clear up,clearing out MYSearch Dial, My Search & Jumpflip which apparently aint no good!??! Am starting to get a head ache!

[potty64]

Now is says 'THREAT DETECTED!. Win32:NextLive-A[Adw} Should I delete it or ignore it or put it in the dropbox (whatever that is)?

[Buenchico]

Well I'd still like to be certain that there are no elements of Norton left running. (Go into the Task Manager, via right-clicking on the tool bar at the foot of your screen and click on 'Processes'. Then click on 'Show processes from all users'. Take a look to see if anything that looks like Norton is listed there).

Otherwise however, Avast seems to be doing exactly what it should. Apart from disabling that annoying American voice (as I mentioned earlier) you've done it all.

Pour yourself a very large drink (even if it's only cocoa, if that's your thing) to celebrate!

[Buenchico]

Security programs, rather annoyingly, have different ways of saying 'zap the ruddy thing!'.

While it's theoretically possible to get a 'false positive' with any security program (meaning that you could accidentally 'zap' something you want to keep) it's actually very unlikely to happen. My policy is always to choose 'delete', 'quarantine', or whatever looks the most lethal whenever any unknown threat is shown. (In the very unlikely event of something important accidentally getting zapped it can always be reinstalled anyway).