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Anti-Virus Programs - AVG 7.0 or something else.
Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: papaschtroumpf on November 30, 2004, 04:11:29 pm ---The following are free-for-home-use versions of commercial antivirus that are ICSA certifed among other certifications:
AVG
AntiVir
Avast!
My main issue with AntiVir and Avast! is that you have to manually update your signatures rather than have them be automaticlly updated in the background. I can't remember if it's the same for AVG.
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Well, that brings up a follow-up question, I never used the automated update (a pain on dial-up), so for Norton, I would d/l an 8M file on a high-speed connection, copy to a zip drive, and update at home.
Avast and AntiVir seems like they might work the same way, but the files are only 2M or so.
AVG has incremental updates with file names as follows - the main file I downloaded today ends in 392. There are also priority updates labelled 392 and 399 on their support site.
Questions: If I were to go the the site now, how do I know there wasn't a 396 that I don't have. If I come back in a couple weeks and they are up to 415, how do I know whether I have 16 updates to install, or only one, or five, etc.
Thanks!
SirPoonga:
I just installed AntiVir along with my old install of AVG. Here's the prob I was having with AVG. When I right clicked on a folder that I knew had a virus and selected "Scan for viruses..." AVG would scan and find it and suggest I run the complete test. I run the complete test and it wouldn;t find the virus.
AntiVir found it. Now I know there are viruses that some scanners pick up over others. It still is competition between products. I had a virus once that AVG could get rid of but PC-cillin could.
TalkingOctopus:
I have been a happy AVG 6.0 user, but I get almost no virsuses. I have it set on full auto mode. It updates and the scans every night.
Trenchbroom:
AVG is excellent, and with version 7.0 they finally got the email scanner working with Thunderbird instead of just Outlook. I a very happy camper.
Tiger-Heli:
Okay, I installed AVG Free last night. Found a lot of things I like about it (boot scan, resume scan from where last left off, automatically restarts if disabled), etc.
I have some questions about it, and posted them in AVG's forum here: http://forum.grisoft.cz/freeforum/read.php?1,5326 but if anyone here knows the answers and want to respond there or here, it would be appreciated.