Help!

I just bought a new laptop that came with trend micro titanium antivirus +2014 for the life of the computer. My problem is that I love avast and do not know much about trend. Could you please give me any suggestions on which is better for total protection. And if I should install Advanced System Care as well.

Thank you

Hi the choice of antivirus is up to you, personally (and probably lots of bias here) I would recommend Avast

Advanced system care can cause more harm than good if you are not a computer guru :slight_smile:

Do you have windows 8 ?

I suggest you remove Trend and install avast.
How to remove Trend: http://malware.ache.nl/remove-av.html

I do not recommend Advanced System Care since the registry cleaner of it cripples several legitimate applications.
Instead I can advise to use CCleaner.
http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner

Download link for avast Free: http://www.avast.com/get/fvtoyo0p

The simple question first - No I wouldn’t touch Advanced System Care.

For understandable reasons people frequenting the avast! support forums aren’t going to be active users of other AVs and are likely to be somewhat partisan about which is best, avast of course ;D

– Uninstall possible remnants of previously installed AVs see, http://singularlabs.com/uninstallers/security-software/, this has a collection of manufactures removal tools, so that should remove any remnants, registry, etc.

Antivirus Remover is a handy application that will bring you the uninstallation program for any of the supported security software listed in the main window.
Requires .NET Framework 4.0

This is why avast evangelists do not use Advanced System Care from IObit…

https://www.mywot.com/en/forum/4775-iobit-steals-malwarebytes-intellectual-property (Read all four pages)
https://forums.malwarebytes.org/index.php?showtopic=33217 :slight_smile:

Thank you for all of the replies. I am definitely staying away from asc.

My specs are HP Pavilion AMD A10=5750M APU with Radeon™ HD Graphics 2.50GHz 8GB RAM 64-bit Windows 8.1