Softwares for Home PC protection

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Your Malwarebytes Pro, is it better to pay or use the free version Is sufficient?

How do you backup?

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Tsgiannis and Andreas,

Thanks for your input, the PC is in a network but I am looking at more for home usage only.

My PC came to a point where it was infected by malware.

Irritating pop-ups and webpages opened without me clicking.

In Firefox I have adblocker, but the Malware was just too strong.

Sometimes, when installing programs, that is when I think they hijack the software and got installed together.

I have not done any backups as I am not sure what backup is suitable for my home PCs and also because, I have a lot of data that all HDD are nearly full.

My PC is also very slow when it runs Win 7 Pro.

My parents used the same PC but I am not sure if they know what they are clicking that is another worry. The slow PC also makes them impatient.

I do patch the Windows every now and then when prompted.

I am not sure the D-Link DIR 868L provided by my ISP has a firewall.

The antivirus that we have is an AVG free.

I also have malwarebytes installed due to two attacks.

Adblocker, noscript and sandbox will they affect websurfing?

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So I have to get an antivirus like Panda and a Paragon backup.

I have changed all accounts to Standard User including mine and added two administrator accounts one with an easy password and one with a password that only I know.

Anything else I may have left out?

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My AVG just reported a number of viruses infecting my Windows files like rundll32.exe but AVG cannot remove them.

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Like you suggested, I will reinstall the whole Windows OS, but I will have to buy an SSD first as my current WD 500GB hard disk is slow and also I need to change it to a 64-bit as 32-bit is really slow to run

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Hi! Rindi,

I have $GB of RAMS installed, just can't remember how many slots.

I thought Windows 7 32-Bit only uses maximum 2GB RAM.

So I thought if I change my OS to Windows 7 64-bit, it will use all my 4GB RAM which will in turn run the software faster.

Furthermore, with a SSD hard disk, the performance will be even greater, am I right?

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