Does anyone still use AVG as their antivirus proggie?

Post by **Transient** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 12:01 pm

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:

Post by **U4EA** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 12:06 pm

Try out Panda ActiveScan.

Post by **Transient** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 12:10 pm

Woot, I've heard Panda was damn good, but I didn't know they had a free online version!

Post by **FragaGeddon** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 2:04 pm

I heard only gay porn contains viruses.
I've never had a virus so I wouldn't know.

Post by **Dukester** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 2:17 pm

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.

Post by **inphlict** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 2:31 pm

I dont use an anti-virus but NOD32 is supposed to be the best one that catches all the viruses.

Post by **PhoeniX** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 2:43 pm

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

Post by **blood.angel** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 2:49 pm

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.

Post by **Dukester** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 3:04 pm

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

Post by **SoM** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 5:42 pm

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

thx Pho :icon14:

Post by **The HavoX** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 5:43 pm

Memphis wrote:I'm still using Norton

ditto

Post by **Tormentius** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 7:15 pm

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.

Post by **Tormentius** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 7:17 pm

Antivir is a decent free scanner.

Post by **dzjepp** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 10:40 pm

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:

Post by **Scarface** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 1:06 am

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

Same :icon14: