Whoa there,, lets hang on a minute.Unless we are talking about paid subscriptions and program suites I can't agree with your statements.Number 1 ; AVG is primarily a AV program which performs it's functions moderately well in most systems configs, and is not a a trojan program although it can detect SOME trojan like and malware activety in the free program. On win7 systems MSE handily whips the snot outta of AVG .On other hand, Malwarebytes has a proven track record in the free version of detecting and eliminating trojans and most malware. If it has a downfall it would be that it doesn't update automatically in the free version and requires you to initiate a manual scan, but hey it's free and does a great job. Show me another program that doesn't throw a false positive once n while, even in their paid versions and I'll buy it. Another great malware/trojan free program is SuperAntiSpyware, which is a bit more intrusive, but that is because it runs actively, hence you will see a small performance hit Most false positives are the result of poor programming efforts by developers and or lack of maintaining system and program updates. Applications that depend on routines that exhibit trojan like behavior although benign trigger these warnings. When in doubt, 99% of the time a google search will provide the answer as to whether it is a false positive or not. Start with the program provider and go from there. As for reg errors, come on, give me a break,,in the consumer market most the reg scanners that they try to sell people report errors that have nothing to do with affecting system performance, or function. Don't believe me, go ahead and us scanreg, and when its done, download one of those so called reg fixers and look at the list it still says is a problem,,BS,,,most are bits of debris left over from uninstalled apps and no longer used modified OS files and other junk that is no longer required. In the consumer realm I have never seen any gains in performance by cleaning the registry or any gain in usable storage capacity in any system. CCleaner if left in the default config is and easy to use application that will work for the majority of users with little chance of screwing up their system. Number one lessen anyone needs to learn is how to make a backup copy of the registry and how to merge it back in if needed. CCleaner does that. Number two, every user should learn how to start their system in safe mode. As much as it pains me to say it, the best security suite in the consumer market out there is, Nortons. It has finally rid it itself of the enormous bloat and resource hog it used to be, made itself a lot easier to use. So before advocating users to dump a proven winner based solely on the fact it gives a false positive once and awhile I would be very interested what exactly you would advise them to replace it with? Keep in mind that many on this list don't have unlimited software budgets. While I have many expensive disk management tools in my arsenal as a necessity, I would hardly recommend them for the average none geek user. Cheers George And The SixPAck -----Original Message----- From: Les Hardy Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 3:27 AM To: gen-newbie@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [GN] Replacement for Ad Aware Sue, You should not install more than one antivirus/anti-malware application at the same time. They will fight with each other, and the results will be a disaster. Pick one application you can trust and remove the others. My personal opinion. Dump malwarebytes. It has too many false positives. Before I retired a few years ago, I always used to install AVG on my clients computers. All registry cleaners will mess up your system if they are not used with care. Have you not used the Windows Registry Checker tool (scanreg.exe) At a command prompt run *scanreg /fix* Having said that, if you have 1200 errors in your registry, you have a serious problem, and it may be time for a complete rebuild. Regards Les Hardy On 08/12/11 03:40, Sue wrote: > I've got Microsoft Security Essentials and Malwarebytes. I added Ad Aware > but now know why I removed it one other time....1st scan took 6 hrs and > found 59 threats...and it trys to run everytime the computer is turned on. > (It is now removed again.) The "pay for" vresion found between 1200-1300 > in their free scan. Guess the freebie version doesn't do the registery. > Is there a good free or share program that takes care of registery errors > and not mess up the computer? With Microsoft Security Essentials, I don't > think I need another program similiar and that what the new Ad Aware > looked like it had gone to. > > ******************** > > Gen-Newbie's website: > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~newbie/ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GEN-NEWBIE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ******************** Gen-Newbie's website: http://www.rootsweb.com/~newbie/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GEN-NEWBIE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message