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muggie2dammit
Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Location: Ilsan, Korea
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| Demophobe wrote: |
| AVG free here...never had a virus. How do people get those things anyways? |
It's those Abba music download sites, you know. 
I use AVG Free, haven't had any real problems with it, though sometimes it and bittorrent have a disagreement. I haven't heard many bad things about Avast either. On the other hand, I haven't heard many good things about Norton, especially from its users (or ex-users). Either Avast or AVG are good enough - they do the job without hogging computer resources to do it, or red-flagging innocent files.
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T-dot
Joined: 16 May 2004
Location: bundang
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| Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 6:05 am Post subject: |
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| muggie2dammit wrote: |
I use AVG Free, haven't had any real problems with it, though sometimes it and bittorrent have a disagreement.
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care to elaborate? I also use both. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 8:08 am Post subject: |
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I've been using AVG free edition for three years with no problem.
I used Norton before that and got many false positives. Norton seems to be way too careful. It's like the virus scanner for the ultra-paranoid. |
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muggie2dammit
Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Location: Ilsan, Korea
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| Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 3:36 pm Post subject: |
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| T-dot wrote: |
| muggie2dammit wrote: |
I use AVG Free, haven't had any real problems with it, though sometimes it and bittorrent have a disagreement.
Muggie2 |
care to elaborate? I also use both. |
Sometimes bittorrent goes to 100% CPU usage (or as close as it can get) and this seems only to have happened during the regularly scheduled AVG scanning periods. It's a simple thing to fix (shut down bittorrent and restart), and happens only now and then. Maybe it's just a coincidence that it happens at these times, but there seems to be some causal connection.
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khyber
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Compunction Junction
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| Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 6:30 pm Post subject: |
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wait wait wait!
I just thought of ONE problem I've had.
At my hagwon, they were constnatly getting adware and the like.
I thought i'd help them out by putting avast on.
So i do.
No sooner had i started a scan than avast RIPS apart our microsoft excel program taking out file by file.
I thought that was REALLY weird and couldn't figure out what was going on. I managed to cancel it but excel was useless by that point.
I never quite understood why that happenned.
My (stupid, ignorant) guess is that Excel was a pirated version and perhaps it wasn't sitting in the right place or something and avast decided to rape pillage and burn.
Too bad for the stupid school. They endedup using only a simple pay for single use korean program. It's stupid. THEN they didn't want us to do scans or cleans because it cost them.
idiots man....just short sighted individuals at that school. |
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muggie2dammit
Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Location: Ilsan, Korea
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| Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 4:02 am Post subject: |
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| khyber wrote: |
wait wait wait!
At my hagwon, they were constnatly getting adware and the like.
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Same at my hagwon. So I put AVG on, detected the 3700 infected files and the backdoors and downloaders and such that were clogging up the system, quarantined them, killed the prefetch files that were preloading them, and the supervisor exclaimed how fast her computer was now. And then freaked that the word files and excel files and pics that she wanted were no longer accessible. So I told her I'd quarantined the dirty files, and I could try to heal them. Which I did, and recovered most of them.
Then, a month later, there were over 1700 new infected files on the computer, and I just gave up and deleted AVG. Tell people about network security, and you protect them until the next time they touch the computer. Take away network access, and they'll bring in an infected floppy/CD. You can't win. |
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