Does anyone kow an efficient virus remover? my PC has slowed down a lot. I run AVG and Zonealarm.?

everybody uses AdawareSE

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/Using_Ad_Aw...

Spybot (s&d)

http://www.safer-networking.org/

A good firewall is vital and this explains about them and offers a list

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/Understandi...

Spywareblaster will prevent many attacks.

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.htm...

Spywareguard too.

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareguard.html

CWShredder

http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html

Be careful with the cleaners, if in doubt, don’t delete, check first!!

Crapcleaner

http://www.ccleaner.com/

EasyCleaner

http://personal.inet.fi/business/toniarts/ecleane....

Smartbuster

http://www.rovatronic.net/

Then you have to choose an AV, AVG,

http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php

Or AVAST ,

http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html

Or a-squared

http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/

Or Computer Associates

http://www.my-etrust.com/microsoft/

For Trojans try these ( free to try),

http://www.ewido.net/en/

Or

http://www.misec.net/trojanhunter/

Or

http://www.agnitum.com/products/tauscan/index.php

Anti-spy

http://www.trendmicro.com/spyware-scan/

And if surfing gaming sites/adult sites etc scan every week

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

http://www.webroot.com/land/freescan.php

http://www.kaspersky.com/virusscanner

http://www.pandasoftware.com/products/activescan/c...

http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan....

http://www.bitdefender.com/

I would first recommend updating your computer from 98 to xp at somepoint as 98 is getting very outdated with vista coming out this year aswell.

Your computer slowing down might not be down to a virus, Avg does have a very good virus engine behind it. You have not mentioned about any spyware software, you could run a spyware scan using spybot, Adaware or Microsoft Antispyware which is still in beta stage at the min but has a good detection system in it.

get the following, all are free for a safe surfing experience,

ANTI VIRAL

AVG (free) http://free.grisoft.com/

FIREWALL

ZoneAlarm http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/prod...

WEB BROWSER - http://www.mozilla.org/products/firebird

EMAIL use thunderbird. It has a good built in spam filter and learns when you teach it. http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird

SPYWARE

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html

and if you have a wireless router follow these tips,

1. Use WPA encryption (WPA-PSK) it's less crackable then WEP.

2. Make a passphrase that is upper & lower case and has some numbers thrown in there as well, again harder to crack.

some like mAkE1t5eCurE0rel53 and as long as possible.

3. Use MAC access control so only you or authorized PC's can connect (even if you do have encryption turned on)

4. Turn off DHCP use static addresses.

5. Turn off SSID (and change it) unless your card really needs it (some do)

6. Change username/password of access unit front end

7. Ensure you have the usual firewall enabled on your PC.

8. Paranoia rules, turn WLAN off if your not using it :)

one last tip

control panel---administrator tools--services--messenger

right clik on it

stop the service

then disable it

save changes

They are both good - especially zonealarm -

check your start up programs - when windows loads

If your pc is slow loading up into your desktop and if your pc takes a long time shutting down - these programs are most prob the reason

YES GO TO SPYWARE DOCTOR . COM THE DOWN LOAD PROGRAM WILL COST 29.00 BUT WELL WORTH IT YOU GET MORE THAN YOU PAY FOR IN PROTECTION FREE UP DATES AND THE PROGRAM IS GOOD FOR A YEAR AND IF YOUR COMPUTER CRASHES YOU CAN DOWN LOAD IT AGAIN FOR FREE UNTIL IT EXPIRES FOR 29.00 ITS WORTH IT OR YOU CAN BUY THE NORTON ANTI VIRUS PROGRAM AT WALL MART OR ANY PC STORE OR FRY'S ELECTRONICS BUT DEFINITELY SPYWARE DOCTOR ITS THE BEST

Ehm..

To detect and get rid of virus and malwares you can use Avira. My favourite free antivirus software. Available for free here http://bitly.com/1sW46Il

You should definitly try it

you can try ewido, however, your PC slow down may not be virus , it may be trojan or spyware. If you have a day or 2 to fix it, you can try these procedures, http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=3540...

hope it helps! Good luck!

You might have programs loading when your computer starts, that you don't really need.

Go to start menu>Run. Type: msconfig. Move to startup tab.

Check what is running there, and un-check un-necessary start up programs.

Try using the program named disk defragmenter and click defragment.

If it doesn't work try switching your broswer to AOL.

i might not be a virus.

you might need to clean your harddrive, meaning do a scandisk, disk defragmenter, or disk cleanup. look in your accessories, then system tools, to see what you have. usually, you are not having enought memory. or too much is being used.