yes whats good now & whats not ?

ad-aware free (used to be great not sure now but I still use it)

seek and destroy also a good one back in the day , is it still good ?

lets keep it on topic please

the reason for this post is now that my kids have there own computers I need to step up my game
my daughter already borked IE lol
np she has FF now
fixed all the crap already , but in order to minimize my work load fixing these netbooks I want to protect them better
so looking for the best possible protection out there

combofix used after the fact but won't hurt to use once a week.
malwarebytes free edition very good.
super antispyware good but can be a hog once in awhile.
spybot still good.
adaware okay but slow and resource hog

You are running Win XP on those netbooks? Spyware Doctor 2010 is pretty good. There is a version that includes AntiVirus.

Be careful with Combofix. I read that a certain version (don't know which one, probably last release) can brick your computer. I second Malwarebytes.

I just used the latest version of combofix on my laptop to remove a rootkit that just popped o from a website.
when using combofix, I never have it install the recovery console.
once I did that and it bricked the pc.

this shit is crazy, I googled for home theater installers in my area and started going through the links and the 5th one seemed to take a while to load so I killed the iexplore process and a "your computer is infected" popped up so I immediatedly ran combofix which found the rootkit, after the reboot and scan was done I ran malwarebytes which found nothing then ran pest patrol which found nothing.

thats some crazy shit

Yeah, but people will read that warning about it not attempting to remove serious infections WITHOUT the "Microsoft Windows Recovery Console" and install it.

Hopefully the bug will be fixed soon. The author does know about it and is supposedly working on it. He even went as far as asking everyone to remove the downloads.

and thus contribute to my daughters education.*LOL*

hello harryb, i thought I could fix it myself but now it won't start.

had a doctor call, he wanted his home pc's and laptops networked and his desktop hooked to his plasma tv. he also said geeksquad came out and lost his data so we're gonna recover that.
I told him it would be cheaper to get a roku box for netflix rather than running a cable from one room to another, and if he wants it to look professional then it'll cost a lot more than a 79.00 roku box.
well his pc doesn't have a hdmi output. just svideo.

that leaves me with going from dvi to hdmi and using a dvi/fiber-optic to hdmi converter.

he's probably going to go the roku option. cheap and wireless.

just got done installing malwarebytes & scanning
the netbooks & my desktop

my desktop had 9 infections
my sons netbook had 4
my daughters had 294

adaware the other day found like 300 on my daughters NB

good lord she going to be a handful

turn on parental control or site advisor in it.
if it's not rated it'll ask for a password. she don't know it, she can't visit it.

had to put my daughter on lockdown.

Goes to show that you can pick up more infections browsing myspace/facebook/twitter than looking at porn, unless your daughter looks at porn. Or your son is using your daughters netbook to look at porn.