I think I have a VIRUS in my laptop. My anti virus is out of date but if ......?

Maybe. AV programs aren't always 100% accurate, and most problems nowadays come from Spyware anyway.

Get MSE, which handles both, then run a full scan.

http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/

I am a bit concerned about blackgrumpycat answer as if they have two anti-virus programs on there computer and it has only picked up a/or one virus, I have only one anti-virus program installed & it has picked up on three possible virus intrusions with in a one week time frame since the 8th of January.

Including a TROJAN downloader, unclassified malware & a suspicious heuristics file & these all came from downloaded software, lets just say I caught these virus's before I installed the software (" I always as a golden rule scan evey download I do before even opening it or installing it as this is a good way of stopping a virus even before it can do any damage, compressed or zipped files I scan than rescan after unzipping them")!

As for the anti-virus I use it is called COMODO Anti-virus ( yes there is a free version ) I have been using it for about three years now and it has not let me down yet, as well as having plenty of settings & different security levels to play around with, as well as its virus database being updated roughly every 1 hour that you are connected to the internet, although I have found it to be a bit heavy on computer resources but I am running vista with only 1gb or ram, so if you have more than 1gb of ram installed it should not really bog down your system to much!

I recommend downloading it and giving a try to see how you go, Best of luck!

http://antivirus.comodo.com/

Even if your anti virus software is out of date, run a full virus scan anyway.

If you indeed do have a virus, your anti virus may still recognise it and be able to remove it.

Yes it should do. I use AVG free edition 2011 and Malwarebytes anti-malware. Both free and both have sorted a virus on my laptop.

first scan your laptop with the original antivirus or with the antivirus installed

it will definitely sort out the problem

then update your virus checker click the update button and this will update it

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