Software For New Pc?

We apologize for the delay. Are you still seeking some feedback?

Gary

 

Greetings.

Thank you again for your patience. I am not sure my answer will have been worth the wait but here are my personal thoughts.

I am not aware of specific software recommended by MajorGeeks, although my working knowledge about possible historical recommendations is lacking, to say the least.

Malwarebytes Premium is designed to not conflict with other real-time antivirus programs. Their site lists some exceptions but WebRoot is not listed as being troublesome. The reason I mention this is because I have found running my own Malwarebytes Premium alongside my antivirus program has only been beneficial. You might further investigate running Malwarebytes in real-time rather than running it on demand.

Personally I would encourage being very careful about running Registry cleaner programs, or those portions of programs that automate the process. It is not that danger is always right around the corner but the potential ramifications if something goes haywire can be crippling up to and including an unbootable computer.

If, by chance, you would like us to take a look at the state of your computer I have provided instructions below. Additionally, antivirus programs can be quite intrusive and lodge entries deep within a system. Traditional methods of uninstalling these types of programs is inadequate to fully clean the system of remnants. McAfee leaves quite a bit behind. I have included instructions below to deal with that irrespective of whether or not you want an overall evaluation.

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Farbar Recovery Scan Tool (FRST)

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• Download Farbar Recover Scan Tool for 64 bit systems and save it to your Desktop. <<< Important
• If your computer language is other than English right click on the FRST64 icon and rename it to FRST64english
• Right click on the icon and select Run as administrator
• Note: If you receive any warning about the download it is a false positive and you can ignore it. Click on More info to get the Run anyway option
• Click Yes to the disclaimer
• Click Scan and allow the program to run
• Click OK on the Scan complete screen, then OK on the Addition.txt pop up screen
• 2 Notepad documents should now be open on your desktop.
• Please copy and paste the contents of each report in separate reply windows

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Farbar Recovery Scan Tool SearchAll

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• Right click on FRST and select Run as administrator
• Copy/paste the following in the Search: box

Code:

SearchAll: McAfee

• Click Search Files button
• When completed click OK and a Search.txt document will open on your desktop
• Attach the report to your reply. If the file is too large zip and upload the file to GoFile or the file hosting site of your choice and post the download link in your reply

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Things I would like to see in your next reply. Please be sure to copy and paste any requested log information unless you are asked to attach it. :thumbsup2:

• FRST.txt
• Addition.txt
• Search.txt

 

though a little dated,

http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=44525