virus and threat removal guide

[Tormeron]

The free anti virus of Miicrosoft is actually the basic anti virus AV test labs use to check how much better every other AV goes, so as a basic AV, sure it's okay, but if you use your bank account, paypal, credit cards, I'd advise to get a better free version, such as Bitdefender free, or if you wish more advanced options in the free version, Avast.

Don't even touch AVG, it's supposedly good but too often have i found viruses on AVG protected machines as a technician.

Apart from that I would advise having the free version of Malwarebytes Anti malware and Malwarebytes Anti exploit, both have a free version available and they do a heck of a job.

Malwarebytes anti malware detects adwares malwares etc that normal AVs don't detect, they have gotten a grade of 100% against Malware removal.
the paid version of it includes an active defense (totally worth it)

Malwarebytes Anti exploit is actually more needed these days than it used to, These days there are more and more exploit kits hiding as ads on legitimate websites. Google had a short encounter with them, big news websites. plus, it's totally free for the active protection of common browsers (internet explorer, chrome, Firefox)

I shall post a guide for how to use your computer safely, need to refine it though a bit

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Double post merged on 02 May 2015 19:41

Forgot to add to it, the malwarebytes anti malware should be run ever two weeks or so and run a "threat scan"
any files it detects are adwares or malware.

Before you start a scan though make sure to go under settings and enable "scan for rootkits"