I would like a few opinions about the reliability of this anti virus scan.
Thanks.....

I am doing a scan with that antivirus! i dunno anything





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I also used this before buying their real program and think it is great..It has found viruses on my friends computers that Norton/Innoculate/AVG didn't.

Dell Inspiron 5676,Win 10 Pro X64,AMD Ryzen 7 2700,16GB DDR4,PC4-19200,Radeon RX 480(4GB GDDR5 Graphics)256GB SSD/1TB Hard Drives

Yep, it is very good, very thorough. To expand on what Scotterpops said, it is pretty much impossible to run the scan without the latest definitions. It will always update to the latest available before the scan commences. I find, with Norton Antivirus these days, many people don't keep it updated until it's too late. Then, when they most need it they find they are unable to update their definitions because their subscription has expired.

The downside of housecall is, depending on how badly your system is hosed you may not be able to get that far to run it.

So I recommend it more as a "second opinion" or emergency measure when possible or practical. It's no substitute for good quality, up to date, resident antivirus software and practicing "safe computing". Don't run that .exe that came in email no matter who it's from. Don't go to that nasty Web site and download that nasty program you don't know anything about, that promises half the Earth. Remember that movie Karate Kid? Mr. Miyagi said: "best way to avoid punch is no be there"

Preventing the infection in the first place is a far more effective defense.

Grogan

OK, Thanks for you reply's.

The reason for asking is in the past I was experiencing lockups while using IE 5.0.

It was recommend here on the forum to upgrade to 5.50 SP2 to possibly help eliminate the problem.

Since doing that my computer locking just after the completion of downloading mail. This has occurred about 5 times in the past week.

It has never locked at any other times.

No idea what causing it whether hardware or software.

Thinking possibilities of a virus I ran housecall and was wondering how effective it was.

the locking up is just simple lack of mem. resoruces. bit rot. or bad program.

it might be something else i see you have the ie5.5sp2 update. might as update to the ie6 it has more safty features in and more bug fixe's then the what you have.

and it never hurts to get a local program of the antivirus ones on your computer as well a firewall.

and never open any exe from some one you don't know or from some one you do know reason being they might have a virus that sent it out without their know about it.

best to save it in the email then ask them before you open it. if they sent it and know about it, then it might be alright.

but scan it anyway. never can tell it might have picked up a cold on the way to ya?

stay safe.

roving cowboy / keith hall

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Keith has some good points, but it's better to try to get things fixed before you update, if you can. You could try running the IE repair a couple of times and see if that helps on the lock-up.