I run vet antivirus and have never had any trouble but before that i found http://housecall.trendmicro.com to be very helpful with viruses and its a free on line scan.

Norton will stop system restore giving you restore points.

I had the same problem.

Go to http://bertk.mvps.org/html/srfail.html

Then just down from the top of the screen in red you will see another link in relation to Norton, click on that and follow imstructions.

i wont be much use but as per the general thoughts Norton is rubbish. i myself use Kaspersky, which is fantastic, along with Ad-Aware SE Pro and XoftSPy Spyware remover.

No, you can leave your Microsoft firewall alone and switched on. You have not pressed 'delete' properly if Ewido is coming up with the same trojans/spayware list etc. Ewido is as good as it gets for malaware/spyware/trojans. It's the top of the tree [I wouldn't be using it otherwise].

Chuck,
good on you. Kaspersky [Russian] is about a good as firewalls get unless you want to move up to Commodo firewall, which is even better and still free [not for much longer] as is their anti-virus I think.

Crash,

I use sunbelt keiro firewall and have never had a problem, but after reading your glowing report on comodo, last night I uninstalled sunbelt and installed comodo.
Looked great with a lot of features EXCEPT it totally stuffed my email, every time I went to open it I got the windows dreaded noise and a monster error message.
Needless to say comodo is now where my norton went a long time ago and sunbelt is reinstalled and running sweetly and looking after me.

Sorry Pinger but that's where your suggestion went as well .i.e."West", just stuffed everything up again until I uninstalled, guess it must be just what weve got on our individual systems (computer systems that is hahaha!)

But looks like Norton is following!!

Partypooper,

I could help you further, but privacy may be an issue as I would have to remotely take control of your computer and drive it through various procedures taking some time.

As to your laptop problem you mentioned to me, that can be resolved, but you need to know the password to reset it or just do a clean install of Windows after putting the laptop hard drive in another system as a slave drive to reclaim your data.

I also have admin software to reveal your password, butcannot give the software to anyone else or I lose my dealer's licence.
There is also another way to do it, but I can't do this remotely.

Shame we live in different States

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Chrome will be in touch, in the meantime is that Spy Bot thingo supposed 2b a freebie??

Yes, all the programs I mentioned are FREE.

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Party,
It's very hard to give instructions to fix PC problems over a forum.
It does sound like your system restore is re-installing your problem[s]. It's the first thing I disable after installing an OS and I then use ERUNT [free] to back up my registry regularly. That way I can restore the complete registry if I have problems with anything. System restore does not 'restore' the registry properly and is a hopeless Hog of system resources.

If your still having problems you could post [cut and paste] a PC log here after running 'HighJackThis' [a tiny free download]. It will show what shouldn't be on your PC. It's then a simple matter of ticking the items and pressing 'fix' in HighJackThis.

Chrome has the best idea but you need to give him remote control of your computer :-)