AVG ... Not what it could be
Posted by: Arun Mehan on 19 December 2003
Just a posting for all you AVG users out there.
My friend's free subscription for Norton Antivirus 2003 ran out so we installed the 2004 version. After rebooting, we encountered some problems connecting to his high speed connection so we decided to try AVG. Seemed like everything was working fine until it detected a virus a few days later. AVG decided to exit windows and show the virus alert on the log in screen of Windows XP. Instead of attempting to quarantine or delete the virus, it told us to run the program from within windows. So we did ... only to find that after 26 mins. of hdd crunching, it couldn't find it. Nice. This went on for a few days after which we were thoroughly disgusted with AVG. We deleted it and decided to give NAV 2004 another chance. Fortunately everything worked fine this time and the viruses (not virus!) were taken care of. So I just wanted to warn all of you AVG users out there that you might have a latent virus hanging around on the hdd waiting to wake up and attack.
Maybe the professional version is better, but the free version certainly wasn't much help in our case. True, NAV 2004 is intrusive and takes up a lot of system resources, but in my mind it's worth it.
My friend's free subscription for Norton Antivirus 2003 ran out so we installed the 2004 version. After rebooting, we encountered some problems connecting to his high speed connection so we decided to try AVG. Seemed like everything was working fine until it detected a virus a few days later. AVG decided to exit windows and show the virus alert on the log in screen of Windows XP. Instead of attempting to quarantine or delete the virus, it told us to run the program from within windows. So we did ... only to find that after 26 mins. of hdd crunching, it couldn't find it. Nice. This went on for a few days after which we were thoroughly disgusted with AVG. We deleted it and decided to give NAV 2004 another chance. Fortunately everything worked fine this time and the viruses (not virus!) were taken care of. So I just wanted to warn all of you AVG users out there that you might have a latent virus hanging around on the hdd waiting to wake up and attack.
Maybe the professional version is better, but the free version certainly wasn't much help in our case. True, NAV 2004 is intrusive and takes up a lot of system resources, but in my mind it's worth it.
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Originally posted by count.d:
Everyone always comes to my way of thinking.
Are you sure - I don't see too many Vauxhall owners on here?
Regards
Steve
Count, I've always been a Norton AV fan. It's just that everybody here kept singing the praises of AVG so I thought I would give it a whirl. As you can see, I won't be trying that again.
Jez, do I detect some hostility there
We've been burning like madman without any problems so I guess we had an isolated AVG incident and you had a Norton incident. Whatever works I suppose. But having to go through all the steps you mentioned just to get rid of ONE virus ... can't be bothered.
Garyi, perhaps I can get a friend of mine to write a virus or worm for you so you can appreciate what the fuss is about
Jez, do I detect some hostility there
We've been burning like madman without any problems so I guess we had an isolated AVG incident and you had a Norton incident. Whatever works I suppose. But having to go through all the steps you mentioned just to get rid of ONE virus ... can't be bothered. Garyi, perhaps I can get a friend of mine to write a virus or worm for you so you can appreciate what the fuss is about
Preach on Brother John, preach on. But AVG is free also.
Anyways, I REFUSE to pay for software even though I must have the latest version
Anyways, I REFUSE to pay for software even though I must have the latest version