Hi RIB. Would you mind me butting in here and asking what is a "PUP"?
I've never seen that before and that is what is going on with mine
(slowing). I'm on a Mac...an old one, but on system 10.
Thanks for any info.
PeggLeg
In article <4FMOx.307032$6i5.51335@fx28.fr7>, RIB <rib@rack.com> wrote:
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>
> I used to think the same as you Spike But I wouldn't even entertain
> Kaspersky. I
> now use a combination of Avast Free and Malwarebytes The latter sped up my
> computer considerably due to the amount of PUP's it found - all of which tend
> to
> take up resources and slow things down. Avast has the lowest false positives
> of
> any antivirus i've tried so far. I couldn't move for em with Norton.
>
> You could download a lovely little programme called ADWCleaner and run that
> every now and again. It won't catch quite as many PUP's as Malwarebytes but
> it
> comes close. It's also pretty good with viruses too.
>
> The problem with Sandboxie used on it's own is that it will happily run PUP's
> but it won't tell you anything about them.
>
> RIB.
>
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