I'm fixing a computer I use but the computer isn't mine i've been having to fix spyware, virus and secuirty issues on this machine so i installed a firewall and installed avg free

i can lock the firewall so it doesn't get truned off because the people i'm mataining the computer for think it's intelligent to disable your antivirus and firewall and surf the net don't ask why i don't know

anyways i'm wondering if there is a way i can lock my antivirus software from being tampered with in avg free i know this isn't avaiable are there other antivirus solutions where i could lock it from being started stoped or modified

what do you guys reccomend for antivirus i've heard avg pro and panda arn't bad what would the best product on the market be for this situation i've seen bad from norton and mcafee in the past maybe because they are most used and most targeted against bad viruses...

or is there a way i can lock an antivirus program so it can't be disable unless you have administrative privilages

any help would be greatly appriciated

oh ps did i post this in the correct forum maybe in security and virus related instead?!?

-DeathKnight Sniper

Mcafee sux and Norton has gone way downhill over the past couple of years since Symantec bought them (and I used to be a HUGE proponent of Norton). Right now, Trend Micro/PCCillin does a great job and yes, you can set passwords where the users cannot change settings

I don't know AVG at all, but what I thought was:

Run the AV software as a service (with srvany). Then you can get it to start with Windows and if it's exitted in the shell will restart (depending on recovery settings in service config)