Avira crashed my computer while running the full scan, but I suspect it was because AVG was running at the same time. I don’t like the Avast! interface, but Avira and AVG seem to be decent free options, even though AVG didn’t save me initially. The three that I tried were Avast! Home, Avira Antivir Personal, and AVG Free. Most of the free versions are “on-demand” only, which means you have to manually run them when you need them. By the time I ran Ad-Aware, there was nothing left to detect. MalwareBytes and SuperAnti both detected different malwares, and helped me regain control of my computer. I basically just downloaded them all and had them all scan my computer. The three most popular seemed to be SuperAntiSpyware, MalwareBytes Anti-Malware Basic, and Ad-Aware Free. Here’s what I found, let me know if you know of something better. Anyway, it forced me to update my knowledge of the best freeanti-virus software out there. I usually use AVG Free but it didn’t catch anything, even after a safe reboot and complete computer scan. Sigh, if only such powers were used for good instead of evil… Who knows what private information was sent out. On top of that, a (fake) Windows Firewall warning came up, which directed me to buy some (fake) anti-spyware software. Upon restart, I could no longer open any web browsers. I watched it shut down my computer right in front of my eyes without any input from me. I wasted last night trying to deal with a pretty nasty virus/spyware/malware/trojan or whatever they are calling it these days on my computer.
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