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by gbrownlee

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The reason I am asking for peer opinions with regards to the best virus checker is. see: PC Trouble Shooting Its got me beat!! The virus dialer.8.u has proven to be a bit of a pig to get rid of. I currently use AVG (Free Edition) and it is the ONLY program that finds this virus. Different online virus checkers give differing results. Some state that my system is clean. In fact, Panda said I had 2 Trojan Horses, but could only fix 1. None of the online scanners found the dialer virus.

After 4 consecutive years of unpresedented drought and then the BSE bs, the farm profit margin is negative. I truly cannot afford to spend $ on software that will not do the job.

Your thoughts on this subject will be greatly appreciated

I have spent countless hours trying to permanently rid my system of this bit of handiwork.

ps. OZ, I don't think this qualifies as a Tech. question :)

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by gbrownlee

Been there, done that. In fact, I have availed myself of the opportunity to do online scans of my system for viruses and spyware etc.

So far, nothing is permanently ridding my system of virus dialer.8.u. I suspectsome of it is residing in my browser (IE) because it only executes when I open my browswer.

by oz_media

NO Greg it's definitely a Discussion topic.

In fact I use AVG on my own systems all the time, I ercommend it to the MANY MANY people who have crashes and freezes only to find out they are ALL Norton related.

AVG is excellent and free for personl use. I have even had one client install the server version of AVG, I never asked if it worked but he's never said it doesn't.

For business use, I generally recommend E-Trust AntiVirus as it is very efficient and resourceful, plus the whole support issue, but I'm an old Inoculate junkie so that's understandable.

AVG, two thumbs up, even if this is a technical question (which it isn't ;-)

OM

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