Re: What good is virus detection....

From: Jim Macklin (p51mustang[threeX12)
Date: 04/22/05 

Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 15:41:45 -0500

Thanks for the heads up, I have added that site to both the
privacy and security (restricted zone) to limit that URL's
access to my computer. 

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"ZRexRider" <jerryg@ptd.net> wrote in message 
news:1114195209.760848.184830@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
|I have always used AVG by Grisoft.  I'm always up to date 
with the
| virus database and software version.
|
| Today I was listening to music on Yahoo and I heard some 
odd lyrics
| that I stupidly searched for and found on (DO NOT GO 
HERE!!)
| www.lyricscafe.com . As soon as I hit the page AVG started 
warning
| about trojans and seemed to be trapping them.
|
| I got off the page immediately however, not only did that 
simple visit
| infect my PC but AVG and AdAware have been ZERO benefit. 
I have
| pop-ups spawning when I open a browser and AVG 
continuously complains
| about infections.  It Heals and quarantines them but they 
always come
| back.
|
| I've used AdAware in Safe Mode and cleaned over 100 
problems.
|
| I'll eventually get to the bottom of this but my point is 
AVG did
| nothing to protect my PC and continues to do nothing to 
fix it.
|

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