Anti Virus Software

[Bram Hengeveld]

Is there somewhere a decent free software solution that scans your pc on errors and also corrects them?

 

[Christopher Aponte]

hitman pro 2 maybe?

actually what kind of errors are we talking here?

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

hardware errors spyware tools enough here

 

[Christopher Aponte]

lol ok then i don't know
Marcel may have the answer

 

[Attila Domján]

format c: ...?

 

[Raino Priha]

If you haven't checked your hard drive for errors I'd recommend you to do that first.

And if you're not familiar with "Chkdsk" check instructions here: How to perform disk error checking in Windows XP

 

[Marcel Hulsbergen]

Bram i have what you want but i need to do it by PM.

 

[Olaf.j Linortner]

try this

avdances windows care personal ,its free of course :thumb:
IObit | Computer Scan, Computer Repair, Computer Cleaner, Free PC Repair Software Freeware and Service
regards
olly (olafj)

 

[Kris Leeten]

Indeed this is a nice program (AWC) but it doesn't help with hardware errors...I'm curious to know which program Marcel uses for these kind of errors.
A colleague told me this week he used Fresh Diagnose (7.82) It has a nice interface and includes some benchmarks (Freeware) (Don't use the Dutch interface: really bad translations unless you understand: "middelen van de hardware")
Of course software can fix only a very limited part of hardware errors, they don't install a mini pc technician in your pc... too bad though.

Edit: Tried the Freshdiagnostic tool myself now and as the title says, it's just a diagnostic tool. On my pc I had to end it through taskmanager, it didn't respond on normal exit functions

 

[Marcel Hulsbergen]

I use hiren's bootdisk, but i can't give you a link to donwload it. just use google and search for hiren. Latest version is 9.5 i think.

 

[Kris Leeten]

Muchos gracias!
Google willl show me the way...

 

[Michael Herrmann]

type into google : Everest Home Edition

its free and it has detailed infos about your sys
everest will even show you web links for firmware or bios updates related to your hardware

 

[Marcel Hulsbergen]

AVG Virus protection now has a free edition

For those who do not like to spend a lot of money on anti virus protection there is a free edition od AVG virus protection available.

The direct download lick is here:
http://www.avg.com/filedir/inst/avg_free_stf_en_8_233a1415.exe

 

[Dave Stephenson]

They have had one for a long time. Ive used it on the family laptop for a long time now. Its very good.

If anyone would like a free antivirus which is a little more light weight for their gaming rig Avast! now has a free version too. http://avast.com/

 

[Marcel Hulsbergen]

They have had one for a long time. Ive used it on the family laptop for a long time now. Its very good.

If anyone would like a free antivirus which is a little more light weight for their gaming rig Avast! now has a free version too. http://avast.com/

Ah great i didn't knew it was free for a long time, atleast now it's a new version.

 

[Dave Stephenson]

up to date is always the most important :good:

 

[Neil Gault]

another free one is from Avira http://www.free-av.com/

and the avira engine was scoring the highest the last time i checked

 

[vmagics]

While we're on a 'free security' thread, could anybody recommend a free firewall please. Aol used to give a free McAfee one but I'm not sure if that's still available...At least I can't find it.

 

[Damian Henderson]

AVG free + Superantispyware (google ) is about as good as a free combo you can get, safe wise.

 

[Robert McColl]

I have just moved over to Norton Internet Security 2009 which always was notorius for comp resource eating but find this really great and it has a 90 free subsciption which is normally enough for me .....It also has a GAMERS MODE where it is less stringent on your PC and more IP freindly when doing online gaming.