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PostPosted: 02-12-2005 04:01 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


A few months ago AVG prompted me to update, and the update seems to have cut out a lot of the features. The most noticable of which is that it seems to not fix viruses any more, just detect them and warn the user. I have it run tests at 6am every day, and today it found 3 files that were infected, though in the summary, it didn't say it deleted the files. I'm confuzzled. Anyone know if AVG pussied up and is shite now?

If so, I need another free AV program, because now I have 3 bad files on my computer and no way to fix em. :icon33:
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PostPosted: 02-12-2005 04:06 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Try out Panda ActiveScan.
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PostPosted: 02-12-2005 04:10 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Woot, I've heard Panda was damn good, but I didn't know they had a free online version!
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PostPosted: 02-12-2005 06:04 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I heard only gay porn contains viruses.
I've never had a virus so I wouldn't know.
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PostPosted: 02-12-2005 06:17 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I have it installed on my computer at work and I've noticed the same thing. It seems to be locking them down in the vault though and when it scans again it comes up clean so I guess it's working as its supposed to.
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PostPosted: 02-12-2005 06:31 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I dont use an anti-virus but NOD32 is supposed to be the best one that catches all the viruses.
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PostPosted: 02-12-2005 06:43 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I use the free version of http://www.avast.com/ - rocks.
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PostPosted: 02-12-2005 06:49 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Weve got Norton Corporate Virus Scan ver 8 at work, yet its fucked for some reason. It could detect a trojan or worm, fail to delete it even though it has the permission to do so, and then not detect it the next scan.




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PostPosted: 02-12-2005 07:04 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I have Norton at home. Lots of times it will detect trojans and worms, but cannot delete them. You then have to go to Security Response and download some removal tool :(
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PostPosted: 02-12-2005 09:42 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


PhoeniX wrote:
I use the free version of http://www.avast.com/ - rocks.


thx Pho :icon14:



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PostPosted: 02-12-2005 09:43 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Memphis wrote:
I'm still using Norton :shrug:


ditto
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PostPosted: 02-12-2005 11:15 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


blood.angel wrote:
Weve got Norton Corporate Virus Scan ver 8 at work, yet its fucked for some reason. It could detect a trojan or worm, fail to delete it even though it has the permission to do so, and then not detect it the next scan.


I'm running Corp 9 on both of my networks and haven't had any issues at all. Maybe a misconfiguration somewhere along the way? Some of the default settings suck.
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PostPosted: 02-12-2005 11:17 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Antivir is a decent free scanner.
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PostPosted: 02-12-2005 02:40 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Tormentius wrote:
Antivir is a decent free scanner.


Tis' what I use as a backup scanner to NOD32, it's good. Almost daily def. updates. :icon14:
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PostPosted: 02-12-2005 05:06 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


PhoeniX wrote:
I use the free version of http://www.avast.com/ - rocks.


Same :icon14:
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