Mr Stupid here again?

What happens if I load or try ot load a second anti-virus programme to my laptop.? I already run Norton and have a free copy of avg or gva or agv whatever.!

Mr Stupid here again?matchless

Don't run two AV programs (or firewalls for that matter) they can seriously conflict. If your subscription is good on the Norton and your getting the updates you should be "good to go".

(it's AVG, there's also AVG Anti-spyware though)

but since your being diligent, I'll include this (it's prewritten):

I recommend CCleaner as well (just run it with default settings). It helps to run it before Anti-spyware scanners to get a better idea of what the real threat(s) are in the scan results. (CCleaner clears out the tracking cookies which would show up in the scans.)

http://www.ccleaner.com/

http://www.spybot.info/en/index.html

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