Quickheal antivirus failed to remove viruses and missed majority of malware. why don't cheap antivirus work?
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My computer was very badly infected. There was so much malware on it that the browsers also lost their ability to load web pages. Basically I could not even use internet anymore, such was the infestation of malware. I went to safe mode and installed free trial of quickheal antivirus. at the instant it was installed it detected a virus. few seconds later it detected 3 more viruses. that is even before i started the full scan or updated it. After updating and doing full scan, 54 viruses were detected by quickheal and it failed to remove 50 of them or quarantine them. Then i uninstalled quickheal and installed ashampoo antimalware. Ashampoo antimalware detected 297 viruses. There were so many trojans, viruses, and worms that it was a record. I have never found so much malware ever before. This computer has been used since 2007 without any antivirus because the subscription of mcafee expired in January 2007 and I realized it only 3 days back. My question is that why can't you get good antivirus for cheap price? Quickheal is one of the cheapest antivirus and mcafee was too expensive to renew. So i used the free trial of QH and it didn't do good job. Ashampoo antimalware is $40 an year and that's expensive too
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Answer:
Why would you want to get the paid version? Get the free one. The paid version of AV does not mean it is more powerfull then the free version. Try Avast! or a free edition of BitDefender. Avast! http://download.cnet.com/Avast-Free-Antivirus/3000-2239_4-10019223.html BitDefender http://www.bitdefender.com/PRODUCT-14-en--BitDefender-Free-Edition.html Make sure you are installing MalwareBytes and SAS to combo your protection. Antimalware/antispyware are like assistant to antivirus, where antivirus can't perform well, its time for the assistant to work. MalwareBytes http://malwarebytes.org/ SAS http://superantispyware.com/
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Well cause you get what you pay for simple as that. People want to make money so if it's a good program it's gonna cost you. Use norton their top upgrade one i think it's called norton 360 it's really good at getting rid of viruses Also man it tells you a week before the trial that comes with the computer runs out. And than it also tells you the day of so I found it hard to believe you diddnt know Also what were you doing downloading stuff off the Internet or looking at naughty things or something
Get the following software, all free, from the links below. Get them from a clean computer onto a flash drive. Now boot your computer into safe mode (hold f8 key while booting up). Run each from safe mode. This works in most cases. http://www.malwarebytes.org http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/combofix/how-to-use-combofix http://www.superantispyware.com
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Cheap (free) antivirus programs don't work because a lot of them are junk. I've never heard of quickheal or ashampoo, but Microsoft Security Essentials, Avast, and AVG antivirus are well known, free, and have been proven to work well.
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Try AVG
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