Thanks for your Comments Gary.
You may well be right in what you say...
I maybe that NO AV programs ever really work 100 % and that may well include what the experts suggest on Geekstogo... (who novices like me ,just have to trust knows better than the majority of us )
I am not sure whatever one does to try to follow the advice recommended...but I suspect that generally it certainly would help improve ones computer functionality..and help remove certain viruses that may otherwise be hard to delete ...or that most of us would not be able to find or remove..
What I have found sometimes in the past, when several AV programs used to work reasonably oK on Windows XP... was that generally they would remove quite a lot of viruses and some found others that some did not detact.. so it may have been a case of running 3 or 4 or more AV programs and if you did not get lucky early on to remove one that say that was causing a or the main problem... you may get lucky when trying running another AV program...and then find that ones computer starts to run better eventually...
But that was a few years ago...
when I tried certain well known AV brands that have since been updated... and since Xp stopped their updates... I think Id tried to run 4 or 5 well known longer lasting branded AV prgrams and they just would not work on XP..at all..!which I found extremely frustrating...
But to now see that one website that I posted a link to claim that Total AV are seeming to now work on Windows XP..
https://www.topbrand...for-windows-xp/
Some times in the past I have managed to run a AV program on even just a quick scan and it managed to find what seemed to be the main offending virus and often improve the performance of my computer...and this can be a big help to then allow the computer to run much better even if later doing more indepth virus removals...
but sometimes I just want to try and get a QUICK result if I get lucky ...rather than having to go thru a longer more in depth time consuming process where I may find it hard to take the time required to go thru a longer indpepth process..that could take some days to fully follow and complete...
I thought that I had a virus a week or two ago, as when I was using Firefox browser..as. at the top of the page just below the URL bar... there seemed to be another coloured bar that appeared with some sort of logo on it that I did not recognise... and my computer sometimes seemed to run poorly or slow or freeze up... but for some reason at the moment my computer seems to have improved and that bar seems to have disappeared..
I am not sure if maybe it could have been a fault with Firefox browser and maybe an update to it has somehow removed it...as I have no other explanation..
unless it reappears again at some later stage and maybe just appears at certain times somehow..
but considering that I do not have installed AV programs or the more updated security... overall my Computer seemed to have been running at least reasonable or allow me to use it OK, considering I am just still using Windows XP...which I will be honest with you does rather surprise me... as I thought by now that my computer could easily now be totally unusable...
So maybe XP is somehow protected to what many of us would have thought could no longer be useable at all...
but I am no expert.... I can only tell you from my own thoughts and opinions as to how I seem to find how my computer seems to still work to some sort of reasonable degree for OLD outdated software..
BUT these days generally I maybe well be trying to be more careful as to what websites that I visit etc.. or I dont use it as much as I used to do...
But I was just asking to see if anyone may have used Total AV and if they found it ok or maybe considered it as one of the better AV programs as some websites are suggesting..
but I dont think generally that the Malware experts on Geekstogo generally seem to suggest using most AV programs that most of the public see being promoted online..
Edited by dowsp, 10 February 2020 - 03:37 PM.