Re: Antivirus - AVG protection

From: N. Miller (nsm_at_blackhole.aosake.net)
Date: 02/09/04 

Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 01:40:31 -0800

In article <c06h3m$13d3hm$1@ID-204080.news.uni-berlin.de>,
esboella.nospam@yahoo.com says...
>
> "Ozgirl" <news_onlyxx@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:elgFtnp7DHA.2540@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> > half_pint wrote:
> > > "Billy" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
> > in message
> > > news:d11001c3ee96$29b5ef00$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> > >> Are there any problems with this AVG antivirus
> > program.
> > >> I'm thinking about downloading it from the web, but
> > >> wondered if there were any points to be aware of?
> > >
> > > It doesn't work properly.
> >
> > You need to clarify your allegations. Your comment
> > doesn't really help anyone,
>
> See if my post 1hour 47 minutes before your OP is any help.

You said, "AGV's anti virus appears to have a *serious* flaw in it."

Appearances can be deceiving. I have seen AVG scan not only all physical
drives in the computer on which it was installed, but all physical drives on
a network connection, when those drives were mapped locally to the AVG
computer. It alerts on EICAR.

I do know that it hasn't alerted on Klez or Swen in a long time; mostly
because all email now is routed through a mail server on the other computer
in the LAN, and F-Prot for DOS is nailing the email viruses on that
computer. 

-- 
Norman
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~Fin dein a loluca, En dragu a sei lain
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