i think norton sucks, duno even if its free,

i think AVG is the best,

go to cnet downloads annd see

Avast

AVG used to be pretty heavyweight when I used it. Avast is light on resources and hasn't failed me yet, blocks sites now and then. NOD32 failed me once so its gone.

dude...i did a search for "antivirus" and the first thing (besides yours) was a post from yesterday

 

Originally Posted by hkfgkjtfgkyu

Please help! Thank you!

Microsoft Security Essentials... one of the only things microsoft got right

 

Originally Posted by SoCalDrew

dude...i did a search for "antivirus" and the first thing (besides yours) was a post from yesterday

Seriously... why is this getting serious responses... AGAIN? LOL

not sure if you are trying to imply that i felt he should have seen the post yesterday (which is incorrect) or if you agree that a simple search of "antivirus" would have taken the OPer less time than to type out the OP...especially since we're getting basically the same replies as that thread

AVG /thread

Well there are a lot of good Antivirus software out there some of them are very heavy. I'm using now a light one called ZenOK free antivirus, that's why I consider it good. for me the speed is crusial

 

Originally Posted by SaulGood

Sooooo I had to go thru some hoops to clean out some computer aids from some phony antivirus bullshit and that's all fixed now, but ever since I can't get any sound on youtube or hulu videos. There is sound on the desktop as I get a ding when I adjust the volume and preloaded videos I have on my hard drive work just fine via realplayer and windows media player. Google suggested I download a new audio driver and I did, youtube said download the newest adobe flash player and I did but the problem is the same. Any smart computer people have any other ideas for me?

I had something like this a while back, and it was driving me nuts that sound on everything but Youtube was working - seems that whatever it was had set youtube volume (and other video places) to zero and I just needed to hit the slider and turn it back up. Prob not this, but it screwed my head for a while, so maybe worth a check.

Safe surfing habits + antivirus is the best way to avoid infections. Even with the best AV you can still get infected if you click on ads, go to non-reputable websites, open e-mails (or attachments) from unknown people (verify the the email address as well), or do peer to peer downloading. If you constantly get viruses, you need to re-assess your surfing habits unless you know how to remove viruses and/or like removing viruses.

I've had AVG, it was good but it was a resource pig. I've had Avast for 6 months and its been great.

 

Originally Posted by SaulGood

It is not that. I think I've done all I can do. Only fix I could find was to get 30updated drivers from windows for $30, but I'm not gonna do that without a guarantee that it'll fix the problem. Looks like youtube pandora and realplayer are the things that don't work while computer sounds and things I already had on my hard drive thru windows media player work. Spent like 3 hours doing numerous troubleshooting things but nothing has worked. Bout to give up as there is no youtube customer service and pandora hasn't responded. So dumb

You sure your computer is clean?

What are you using to scan it? And why $30 for drivers?

avast

Found this

 

1) Apparently its caused by the deletion of a single registry entry called wavemapper which some people blame on Adobe's flash player.

Here is the fix:-

Start -> Run and enter 'regedit' or 'regedit.exe' (obviously without the quotes) - This will bring up the registry editor

Follow the left path to:
My Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mic… NT\CurrentVersion\Drivers32

On the right pane, right click and click on New, select String value, enter 'wavemapper', press ENTER

Then right-click on 'wavemapper', select modify, and type 'msacm32.drv' into the Value Data field.

Close the registry editor.

This should all work now without a reboot so you can get back to watch youtube clips all day.

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2) Recall that in CONTROL PANEL under SOUNDS AND AUDIO DEVICES and the VOLUME tab, I said it was greyed out. Even though I had all drivers installed, it said "NO AUDIO DEVICE" and the DEVICE VOLUME could not be accessed.

Well, the problem was under the AUDIO tab and the SOUND PLAYBACK section. DEFAULT DEVICE was set to "Modem #0 Line Playback".

I clicked on the arrow on the right - for the drop down menu - and saw a second choice..."Vinyl AC'97 Audio (WAVE)".

I chose it, clicked on "APPLY", went back to the VOLUME tab, where it now read "Vinyl AC'97 Audio (WAVE)" and the volume was accessible.

clicked on "OK" - went to youtube.com and it played perfectly.
Source(s):
http://forums.techguy.org/windows-nt-200…