Quick & Dirty How To Clean and Speed Up Your Computer

[Rockport24]

thanks John, unfortunately, that didn't work either! I'm at a loss here....
no other virus software even detects this thing, is this a ESET scam?

[JackK]

Is this pretty much up to date? I just got my mom a Dell outlet machine for light web browsing and word processing... When it comes in I'll probably reformat it to remove all the bloatware, then set it up for her so it's (relatively) protected.

I know little about free anti-virus /malware software, so if you could suggest any improvements JR, that would be great.

Thanks again for putting this up!

[JohnR]

Kinda - I would say AVG is the best free and that Kaspersky is the best paid AV out there.

Having automatic updates or manual updates twice per week will go a long way as well.

like anything, there are trade offs (I would never set servers to auto update)