Question by Rob F: IE6 is very slow and my file downloads get stuck at 1-10 percent done and is viruscan enterprise 8 good?
IE6 on my computer is very slow and files will not download. System restore has not worked nor has doing the whole reseting internet options. I cant download any new antivirus progrmas and i am running Virus scan enterprise 8 and ad aware 2006 are those good enough? what should i do?

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Answer by One Computer Guy
First and foremost, these are MY opinions and have experience several machines that had these on them,
as well as users using these product. Not to mention that I have ran each and every one of these myself
so as to not confuse those that think that I have not.
My findings in these products are useless and sometimes scare the normal user.
Also, these products are not for the normal user as normal user do not take the time to read the
manuals/docs for what they download and or buy, they just want to install and use.

Stop using the following software:
– AVG –
-Avg has been known to report false positives, also reports “tracking cookies” as “Trojan downloaders”.
This is bad practice to me, scaring the user half to death because that’s all that we hear on the news
anymore is about Trojans, Worms and Virus’
-Maybe free, but be aware that this product is not the normal product that you would put on a machine.
Most if not all of your experts will tell you to leave this alone, avoid it like the plaque

– Ad Aware SE –
-Ad Aware is a dangerous program if you do not know how to set it up, although it comes with the basic
‘normal’ user settings, those that go messing about will find after changing the settings, will remove
things from the Windows System and then be stuck in a bad situation.

– Spybot Search and Destroy –
-Same as Ad Aware Se

– Ewido –
-Made By AVG NOW, although AVG (Grisoft) bought them out or merged (which ever you avgt fanatics prefer)
this product does the same as their software (av) and scares the user (see above AVG)

– McAfee –
-System Hog. Although this product is and has been around for decades, it still isn’t that great of a
product as it eats up resources like a hungry dog.

– Housecalls –
-Not a bad product, but installs while online and no option(s) to UNinstall it.

– Trendmicro –
-Not a bad product, but installs while online and no option(s) to UNinstall it.

– Panda –
-Not a bad product, but installs while online and no option(s) to UNinstall it.

– Norton –
-System Hog. Although this product is and has been around for decades, it still isn’t that great of a
product as it eats up resources like a hungry dog.
-Also this product has to use it’s own UNinstaller to get rid of it, even if you take it out of Add Remove
and reboot your system, this pain in the arse software prompts the user to reinstall or it auto does it

– eTrust –
-Now owned by CA MS used to ship this with it’s Feb 2004 Security Update CD set. ( I know I have it ) and what
a load of rubbish.

– Kaspersky –
-Maybe free, but be aware that this product is not the normal product that you would put on a machine.
Most if not all of your experts will tell you to leave this alone, avoid it like the plaque

Decent programs to install and use

Removal Software

– Norton Removal Tool –
Norton Removal Tool here (IF you have Norton):http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/tsgeninfo.nsf/docid/2005033108162039

DirectX 9 Removal Tool

http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=522

Turning off Services
Turning off MS Messenger services http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/security/learnmore/stopspam.mspx
Double Click your Clock – Click the Internet Time TAB – Uncheck Automatically sync time. Click APPLY click OK

Anti – Virus’
AVAST HERE http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html

Anti – Spyware
X-Cleaner http://www.xblock.com/download/xclean_micro.exe CLICK RUN
Same As Above But You see the site http://www.spywareguide.com/onlinescan.php
Spyware Blaster http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/sbdownload.html
Super Anti Spyware http://downloads2.superantispyware.com/downloads/SUPERAntiSpyware.exe

Win Socket Fix

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/winsockxpfix.html

DCOM Fix

http://www.grc.com/freeware/dcom.htm

Misc Cleaners:
Ccleaner – http://www.ccleaner.com/
Easy Cleaner – http://personal.inet.fi/business/toniarts/ecleane.htm
Reg Seeker – http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm

Removing Rouge Software
Rouge List – http://www.spywarewarrior.com/rogue_anti-spyware.htm
Removing Virus Protect Pro http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic98219.html

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