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If you have three antivirus programs and none of them can get rid of a Trojan which is slowing down your computer what do you do?
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∙ 8y ago
First off you should never run more than one virus program at a time. Second a Trojan is not nessarily a virus. It can just be Spyware. I would suggest you download, update, and run a good Antispyware program such as Adaware 7.0, Spybot Search & Destroy, or Microsoft Antispyware. All are a free download.
(I'm not sure if you have already taken care of the problem, whomever posted this, but it could help other people with the same problem...)
clay has an incredibly good point. see, anti-virus programs, when installed, try to claim dominance over looking at your files. you have three of them trying to do the same job at the same time... they could be the things slowing your computer in the first place. you need to think about which one you think is the one that works best with the most virus definition updates and leave it alone. then, go and disable the others. (at least disable them. you can keep them if you really feel you need them, but disabling will keep them from running and overlapping each other. enable another in case of emergency or suspicion only AFTER disabling the running one.)
about the Trojan, it should be picked up either by your anti-virus program (i prefer AVG Free over any other anti-virus). if it isn't, i'd suggest "Spybot: Search and Destroy" or "Ad-Aware SE Personal". both of these are free downloads at http://download.com . (just search for them using their page.)
if you even THINK there's a Trojan on your computer, when you install either of these anti-malware programs, do NOT make a restore file! run them once each, and get rid of everything they mark as bad. restart your computer, and do it all over again. restart it a second time, and NOW make your restore file. the last thing you need is to make a backup of your computer and in a time of crisis, use it and accidentally reinstall a Trojan.
make sure you keep updating these things. i'd suggest doing each once a week at least. also, to keep your computer running quickly, use "Disk Defragmenter" (a windows utility; it's in the start menu ( start -> programs -> accessories -> system tools)) at least twice a month. ^___^
good luck!
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