Do I need an antivirus on my PC....?

Yep if you mean Avast and Malwarebytes that's good and a couple of other on call scanners you might like to try in the future
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Taking apart Toshiba laptops and notebooks. DIY guides. Disassembly instructions. < then go to disassembly guides if you ever get stuck - post back:)

Thanks, I just disabled Avast, and MSE defender, then installed Malwbytes. Reabled MSED and Avast then ran MWB quick scan, and it found 0. Yea!

Avast has found two malicous things in past and gave me what my cloud technician step-son called a false warning. My freeAvast has also warned me a couple times of a suspect web site. MSED has never found anything but then again all reviews I had read said it is bottom of the list for converage.

I have installed RAM and HD drives on fruity Imacs( moderate difficulty ) and power books( relative easy ) been inside my wifes mac mini but only reconnected fan wire.

Hopefully wont need to go into this Toshiba. If i appear to have any trouble with MSED, Avast and MWB on same W7, 32 bit system will let you know. Really only one regularminor bug for me to still figure out, why Toshiba will always restart after shutoff, as long as its is plugged in.

If not plugged in, it stays off....no biggie for me, as i only use it here at home for most part.

Finally figured out the buggy way overly sensitive left click button setting. That was enough frustrating annoyance I would have got another computer before too much longer.

I could maybe figure out the shut off bug if I focused on it again, but ok for now.

rsix

ICit2lol said:

Hum sounds like a power setting Rsix go into control panel and see what you have got set up.
Personally I would be dumping the "extra" AV either the MSE or the Avast.
You might also have a look at point #20 in this Optimize Windows 7[2]=Performance Maintenance
By the way did you try the other scanners?

Updated new free Avast early today, so I think dropping MSED would not be a significant loss. i'm just relatively new to PC's and without buying AV, just wanted to get well covered without having conflict.

The three I have chosen, I believe will work well together. Time may tell. Suppose I could drop MSE and try the other one(s) suggested. Made a decision when getting this toshiba, W7 to go with a MS base of everthing ex. IE9 and not my trusted FFox, or unfamilar to me chrome etc...

I'm finally getting used to IE9, to the point that I think it has some nice features I like. Looking forward to IE10 tho it wont appear much differrent on W7 it will be more secure and security is my biggest concern in becoming a PC person.

I tried many differrent options in power options when first got the PC and none of them solved the issue. It will not come out of sleep or hibernation at all, so, I never put it to sleep/hibernate and it is always plugged in.

Not having a "kill time issue". Brink is great and has advised me recently ---then not sure how focused I want to get into the shutoff-back on minor issue. I'm one of those semi-anal people who learned early on to close, shut off perphials etc in proper seqential order.

My next door neigbor use to say I should have been a programmar with my overly analytical concerns--- thinking to much of how this led to that etc... ----but I missed that programmer boat by about 20 years. I'm no youngin...

Thanks for advice. Hope this above helps.

rsix

Layback Bear said:

I'm lost. Has anybody heard from the OP, boyboyds. Some how his thread got stepped on.

Maybe this thread was usurped by a viral trojan, worming its way through the malware matrix with non-malicous intent, looking to latch itself onto a streaming thought of pure W7 radiance from above, leading the way out to the IE 10 light, and away from the underbugger belly of sinister portals. Or not. :)

My new malware has already found a potentially malicious site, so my thanks goes out to dude Indianna? who recommended it to me and/or others also.

Rsix

ICit2lol said:

Andreas W said:

Personally I don't use AV becasue I deem that I don't need them but I do recommend others I know to use AV that are not that into computers, the only program that I use is Malwarebytes, if I install MSE I only get BSOD after a while, I used AVG for years without it ever finding a single virus so got rid of it. For my surfing I use ad block plus and others to stop websites to load certain items and that seems to working since malwarebytes never find anything either. But this is just me.

Hum would interesting to see if SuperAntiSpyWare or the ADWCleaner came up with anything Andreas.

But for the record what you are saying is right and as I said earlier lot depends on what you do and where you go

But if you have never tried them or even feel inclined to give them a go
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I have tried SuperAntiSpyWare and it did find tracking and such not sure if it also finds virus, never heard of ADWCleaner but I will install it and give it a try