Leythos said:
I personally use the following:
Symantec Corporate Edition for Workstations and Servers 10.1
Spybot Search and Destroy (from safer-networking.net)
AdAware from lavasoft
Multi-AV from David Lipman
A full virus scan, of more than 400,000 files on my workstation, takes
hours and time doesn't matter, as I can after hours when needed. I
always do these type of FULL scans in safe mode.
What freeware did they suggest you use, I hope it wasn't AVG, it has a
terrible detection rate on new malware.
Yes, it was!
I had to go out and leave my machine on with the scan running it was taking
so long, and there was no report that I could discern when I came back.
In the last few days I have had problems with McAfee SecurityCenter. I
noticed that when I sent emails or posted to newsgroups I was getting an
error message which would normally indicate that the message wasn't been
sent, but it wasn't remaining in the Outbox - indeed it was being sent.
I had been recommended to switch off Email scanning of viruses which I had
previously done.
When I checked whether it had started scanning these I found that
SecurityCenter gave a blank screen.
I contacted McAfee and I was IMing with them for about 20 mins with an
adviser giving me instructions as to how to rectify the situation. It (ie
the screen) hasn't changed, although when it found a potential virus earlier
on it didn't invite me to scan all my files, which suggests that
SecurityCenter is working but there is something wrong with the interface.
Nick