Dumb antivirus/spyware question.....?

can i run cox security suite antivirus and ad-adware at the same time? my computer is running extremely slow and has a lot of pop ups (all my pop up blockers are on!) so i did an antivirus scan w/ cox security suite and it found no infections, then i did a scan w/ ad-adware and it found 688 critical objects? why such a big difference? oh, and one of the pop ups i keep getting is critical notice i think from micrsoft or somewhere telling me personal info is being viewed from my computer, would I like a free scan or to download the program? also someone told me to try AVG, but can I do that w/ cox antivirus and ad-adware?

Dumb antivirus/spyware question.....?security

first of all, don't download that program you mentioned (or run its scan) sounds like it's a Trojan. Research the name that appears for the ''program'' for instructions to remove it or repost here.

Download and run CCleaner (just run it with the default settings) then run the Ad-Aware scan again. You'll get a better idea what infections you have. http://www.ccleaner.com/

You didn't mention Spybot,

http://www.spybot.info/en/index.html

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