ctrl-alt-delete question & free anti-virus question

[eTiMaGo]

I use AVG Free, it's unobtrusive and does a fine job.

I personally hate avast... forget to turn down the volume and you get woken up at 3AM by the blaring "YOUR VIRUS DATABASE HAS BEEN UPDATED!"

[goku87]

Originally Posted by eTiMaGo

I use AVG Free, it's unobtrusive and does a fine job.

I personally hate avast... forget to turn down the volume and you get woken up at 3AM by the blaring "YOUR VIRUS DATABASE HAS BEEN UPDATED!"

haha. been there before.

[supmet]

Originally Posted by eTiMaGo

I use AVG Free, it's unobtrusive and does a fine job.

I used to believe this, but its gotten to the point where I only run it once a week in safe mode(along with ad-aware). After a fresh install with all options from free AVG, it was taking up to 250 mb of ram, and the link scanner was making google searches take 4-5 times as long.

To the OP, any of the anti virus suites suggested should do the job, just make sure to run them in safe mode, as they are pretty useless in normal mode.

As for the ctrl-alt-delete question, are you sure all 3 buttons work separately? Have you tried the left ctrl and alt instead of the right ctrl and alt? If you have another USB keyboard laying around try it on that one. If none of that works, I would run a windows repair disk, this usually fixes standard registry, driver, and service problems.