Well, I've been having some problems with the browser the last couple of days and with AVG blocking attempted attacks and with the browser popping up a random spam page. I asked my uncle about it and said that it's a spyware problem, I asked him about a good spyware cleaner and he said CA antivirus (or more specifically, internet security suite).
However, CA antivirus didn't cure it (besides, I have to pay 50$ to activate it for full functionality), so I looked around and found a site that listed some stuff that would clean things up. I tried looking at the Panda securities thing and it just detects and I have to pay 15 dollars to clean, got Spybot Search and Destroy (got the beta 4 for the version 2 of it actually) and despite a few problems related to it being a beta, I did clean things up and the problem I had seems to be cured, at least mostly. I also checked out Spy Emergency but I dunno, that one is more of a combination antivirus and anti-spyware though.
So, anybody know whether AVG (I had the free version) is better than the CA antivirus or what? I'm siding towards AVG since the annoying popup saying you need to activate the product doesn't make me want to buy it, plus I'm not paying 50 bucks. Not to mention that I know AVG works well against viruses and malware, but doesn't seem to be able to clean up spyware.
Secondarily, what would a good free spyware cleaner and protector program be?
Topic: CA antivirus vs AVG antivirus? also recommended spyware cleaner? (Read 5552 times)