What are some good, free, anti virus programs?

I'm using a shitty one right now, it found the viruses but can't get rid of them.

One of them is this c:\ARK12.tmp
TR/Vundo.NS trojan.

I tried to delete it but no luck. Any advice?

E: I don't know much about computers and I've been up for 3 days and am getting mild hallucinations, so if you could keep it relatively simple I would appreciate it.

Thanks

Inb4 GNU/Linux,IPcop

Inb4 GNU/Linux,IPcop

Does not compute.

I'm dling a trial of Norton 360, is that a good program?

None, hackers can hackthrough avs and firewalls. They would use a email to crash the av and ddos nuke to kill the firewall. After that your fucked.

Get t he free ones like avg and avast. As long as it updates and gets rid of spyware your good.

I'm dling a trial of Norton 360, is that a good program?

If it has the Norton name, or the MacAffee one, then it's worse than shit.

Might as well ask for a virus -- it's not like it'll slow them down...

None, hackers can hackthrough avs and firewalls. They would use a email to crash the av and ddos nuke to kill the firewall. After that your fucked.

Get t he free ones like avg and avast. As long as it updates and gets rid of spyware your good.

Whaaa?

The best free is probably Avast

Anti-virus doesn't prevent viruses because the two ways you get viruses are from exploits or running something yourself.

That's why paying for programs like McAfee and Norton are retarded, AV is minimal protection so many people pay so much for software that won't even save them... oh well it gives them the illusion of security :rolleyes:

As for Firewall, get yourself a router and run Windows Firewall. The only thing those fancy software firewalls do is slow your system down.

So AV's are shit. I've always used a software firewall (Comodo) and it acted nicely, blocked a lot of shit and stuff like that. Other than that I've almost never run suspicious executables etc.

So, a software firewall (can't get hardware firewall, no cash) should be better than an AV?

Anti-Spyware: SuperAntiSpyware
Free AV: Avast or AVG.
Detecting Hidden Processes: HiJackThis
VundoFix

I'm not sure if they're the best, but they've worked for me thus far.

GNU/Linux. (http://gnewsense.org)