With virus emails spreading so fast even updating your virus checker every few hours may not be enough. One of the latest viruses infected over 100,000 computers before there was a fix for it. With a lot of the newer viruses once they infect your machine they will prevent your virus checker from detecting them once you do finally update.

There are plenty of basic steps you can make to help prevent this but with the huge amount of viruses checkers out there where do you start? Well, we've tried all the big companies and some of the smaller ones so we can offer you advice based on real experience dealing with virus checkers.

This is what we will do when we come round to see if you have a virus and then repair:

* We scan your computer for viruses using our own method which will ignore a viruses attempt to block the scan. * We will check your registry for signs of virus infection. * We will install a virus checker for you if you have none (no charge). * We will explain the differences between the most common virus checkers to tailor the best one to you. * We will update the virus list on the programme you use or we install. * We will offer advice on how to limit the chances of getting infected. * We will explain in layman terms how they infect you.