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just thought I'd share an experience with my anti-virus program, I run f-secure on startup, but I don't manually scan often enough probably, today I found an infected file, it was a trojan downloader, the program couldn't delete it, so it renamed it, when I rescanned a 2nd time it came up again telling me it couldn't be disinfected ( well I knew it was a dead file) but I wanted it gone, so I ran the registry cleaner and found some entries "scc" removing those enabled me to remove the file later, anyone know what the relation is? oh, and btw, adaware found the same file and described it as a possible attempt to hijack my browser and the file led to a blacklisted site, anyways all gone now, but I assumed f-secure would alert me, not so, had to manually scan. does anyone have an opinion on what anti-virus works the best, I understand "kaspersky" is rated #1, if anyone has it, please respond to it's performance. I'm not the most computer savy but I'm learning :(

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thanks for the feedback, I had norton at one point but it sorta took over my computer, it seemed invasive. I'm telling you, you should run a registry cleaner and look in there once in a while, you might be surprised. :o

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AVG seems to catch those types of downloaders/trojans. Also spyware programs like Adaware, Spybot and Spysweeper catch hijackers and downloaders and can be run 24/7 in some cases to stop things before they install. Having a program like TrojanHunter doesn't hurt either in case your antivirus program misses something it's not specifically designed for.

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