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RJK
Hello all, ...opinions please.
I recently succumbed and removed everything "Norton Internet Security" from
my PC a while a week or so ago, and installed "free" Zonealarm firewall and
AVG ant-virus ...and kept up some of my other internet security "layers".
Hosts file, Adaware and Spybot sweeps to mention just a couple.
This morning my intuition told me that this was simply not adequate, the
thought "you only get what you pay for," kept niggling away at me !!
So I dumped (uninstalled) Zonealarm and AVG and installed eTrust's EZarmour
internet security suite, (30 day free trial), and it's anti-spyware module
immediately found "backdoor.win32.bifrose.d" and grokster !!!!
...I wonder how long they've been in my PC since I dumped Norton ????
I now do not think very much of AVG, it seems completely inadequate to me !
....and before someone pipes up and says that AVG is an anti-virus program
and attempts to excuse it for not detecting "backdoor.win32.bifrose.d," and
whilst appreciating there is a "Fuzzy" crossover area between computer
viruses and spyware, it would have been reassuring if AVG had detected
"backdoor.win32.bifrose.d," but it didn't !!!!!!!! ...AVG in my view seems
completely inept !
regards, Richard
I recently succumbed and removed everything "Norton Internet Security" from
my PC a while a week or so ago, and installed "free" Zonealarm firewall and
AVG ant-virus ...and kept up some of my other internet security "layers".
Hosts file, Adaware and Spybot sweeps to mention just a couple.
This morning my intuition told me that this was simply not adequate, the
thought "you only get what you pay for," kept niggling away at me !!
So I dumped (uninstalled) Zonealarm and AVG and installed eTrust's EZarmour
internet security suite, (30 day free trial), and it's anti-spyware module
immediately found "backdoor.win32.bifrose.d" and grokster !!!!
...I wonder how long they've been in my PC since I dumped Norton ????
I now do not think very much of AVG, it seems completely inadequate to me !
....and before someone pipes up and says that AVG is an anti-virus program
and attempts to excuse it for not detecting "backdoor.win32.bifrose.d," and
whilst appreciating there is a "Fuzzy" crossover area between computer
viruses and spyware, it would have been reassuring if AVG had detected
"backdoor.win32.bifrose.d," but it didn't !!!!!!!! ...AVG in my view seems
completely inept !
regards, Richard