I have had the same problem with spyware and viruses so I suggest the following which worked for me...

AntiVirus: Avast home edition
Antispyware: Microsoft AntiSpyWare, Spybot, and SpywareBaster

I was starting to have a spyware problem and I used AVG and everything seems to have cleared! Thanks for your help!

i have one suggetion for all PC user that inneed of Anti Virus Protection or under virus atack,
im doing like that:
First of all u need to donwnload Anti virus program my opinion has stopped on KAV- Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6
u can easly download it form mother site.

My recommendation is Avast . It is free for home use . More over it has good real time protection and it has auto updating features . It is Vista capable.Visit their site at www.avast.com

This post has been edited by ajayshivaa: Feb 27 2007, 01:51 PM

Oh my! There must be atleast a dozen such topics that I've seen revealing names of various Antivirus software (again!)

Anywayz, as alwayz - I'll stick to my ever-so-good recommendation - Avast! Antivirus (Yeah, the ! is in the name itself). It can be downloaded for free at http://www.avast.com

There are several versions of the program, you choose which one's the best for you-

• Home Edition : Best for home/isolated PCs. Use this if you're not over a LAN or similar network.
• Server Edition : If you're the administrator of a LAN or similar network, you can use this edition to protect all computers connected on the network. Must be installed on a server.
• Professional Edition : Even with the above free versions, you can make a little donation to Alwil Software and purchase the Pro version, which gets you a handful of extra features (not that you can't live without 'em!)

The best thing about Avast! is its effective on-access protection! It has several modules which can be used selectively. Overall, comparing it with other free Antivirus software, I think is better off on features, as well as GUI! Of course, it integrates into the explorer shell and scans zipped archives, like all you'd expect from a decent antivirus software! And trust me, its far better than Norton - at all grounds!

Just try out Avast! Antivirus. Its freeware, ofcourse. You can download it from this link :
http://www.avast.com/eng/programs.html
I'm not pretty sure, is it good or not, but people are saying that is good. So whatever. Try if you want.

Sorry, Aka_Bar, read the rules. Here are only honest people, no one uses cracks.
By the way, you seem not to know what is OpenSource.
A program is OpenSource if the author allows anyone to use it's source. If on my site I put a program I wrote by myself, with an OpenSource readme.txt, it's usable by anyone. If on my site I put a warnint "You must pay a licence for using this software", like Microsoft puts ont it's CD's, it's not OpenSource, even if you find such a CD on the Internet. If you install a program, and the downloaded program says "you must have a legit licence you have paid for it", then this program is not OpenSource, and you cannot use it without paying it.
I love one well-known ftp client, after the trial time it says "the 30 days trial period is finished ; if you are a student you may continue using this program ; if you are not a student you must purchase this program". That's a smart way of explaining things.
So, every program claiming "my software is free" can be legally used. Any program saying "you must have purchased this software" is used against the law if you did not pay it.
Sorry for having been so long, but sometimes things have to be told clearly. Some persons write down programs for their own pleasure and want to share them with otther people, this is called OpenSource.
Some other people try to sell the work they did, they need this money for having food, you should not use their programs if you don't want to pay them.
If you want to use AVGFREE, it's OK. If you want to use the paid version of AVG without paying it, it's illegal. It's as simple as that.

If this has not been mentioned...

Active Virus Shield is giving away 1 year free anti-virus software (fully functioning) full version. Powered by Kaspersky Lab, one of the largest anti-virus providers, and funded by AOL

Link: http://www.activevirusshield.com/antivirus/freeav/index.adp?

I suggest to read this document: http://www.av-comparatives.org/seiten/erge...se/report13.pdf . It's a comparison of (non freeware, but if there are freeware version, they'll probably perform almost alike) virus scanners. It seems like Avast isn't as good as I had expected it to be, but I'm still happy about it (I hardly need a virusscanner, I don't visit 'bad' website, I don't have spam in my downloaded mails and I don't use Internet Explorer).

I use Lavasoft Ad-Aware SE Personal, Spybot and AVG together. I can not comment on how good they are, however.