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Make $1,000 Today With Little Or No Upfront Cost To You Part 12

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Posted 4th October 2008 at 02:03 PM by George Wright

Continued from part 11

I began to do research and I found a “set” of antispyware and antivirus programs that worked for me.

So, here I am talking to people who had the same problem I used to have and they had no clue of what to do. I would say to them, “You probably have a virus, and here is what you do… bla bla bla” their eyes would glaze over and I would lose them.

Finally I started saying, “Oh I can fix that,” their eyes would light up and they would say, “How much will it cost me?” A deal would be struck and I'd be out to their house that afternoon or the next day.

Yes, they were really that anxious to get that PC running like new again. I would bring to their house a CD with my favorite “Clean Up Programs” on it.

The first thing I would always notice is that these people usually had things on their computers that I never had on mine. They had Norton or Mcaffe or some other popular antivirus program.

At this point I will tell you that I would never say that Norton or Mcaffe are bad programs, you have to decide this for yourself. All I know is, these people had them on their computers and they were not working for them.

I can further say that the programs I installed on their PCs did work and I left the customers' homes leaving them with a smile on their faces at least 90% of the time. Oh yes, there were a few PCs that I just couldn't make run faster.

I never charged unless I improved the performance of their PCs and I did the job most of the time. Whether I'm right or wrong I just never had much confidence in those big name virus removal programs. To this day I don't use them. Give me AVG by Grisoft, Adaware by Lavasoft, and Zonealarm by Zone Labs any day.

Those are what work for me. One thing I learned the hard way was the fact that in some instances you must disable the restore function before you remove spyware or the spyware comes right back at reboot. You can search to find other programs that work for you if you choose to clean up PCs to make a few dollars. That is up to you.

At the end of this section you will find a list of all the programs I used to service PCs for people. To Be Continued...
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    You're my man -- I also only use AVG, Ad-Aware, Zone Alarm and one other you forgot to mention, Spyware Search and Destroy. I keep my household's 5 computers running lean and mean, and most of all... CLEAN!
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    Posted 5th October 2008 at 12:19 AM by FleshJoe2005 FleshJoe2005 is offline
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    I am switching also my pc's to AVG free, Ad-Aware and Commodo as my choice of firewall.
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    Posted 7th October 2008 at 09:28 PM by tj tj is offline
 


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