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Jeff
With all the viruses running around these days, I think it is important for
me to share this information and it might help all of us.
I have 3 PCs at home. All 3 are protected with constantly updated AVG as
well as Zone Alarm, Spybot, Ad-Aware, CW shredder, ActiveX disabled, no
Java, etc., etc. Recently I suspected I might have a Trojan on my laptop.
(See http://forum.aumha.org/viewtopic.php?p=46746#46746 ). So I ran an
updated AVG both in regular and in Safe Mode. Showed no viruses.
I went through all kinds of searches, finally showing the presence of
FxNetsky and maybe another. Ran Symantic's FxNetsky with no improvement
plus a whole string of other things. I was finally advised to try
Kaspersky's 30-day free trial antivirus software. Kaspersky's AV found 2
viruses and 7 infected objects, removed them all and I did not need to even
go into safe mode. Of course I ran it in safe mode again and it found
nothing else.
With this experience, I ran Kaspersky on my other 2 PCs even though AVG
showed them to be clean and I had no suspicions. Guess what? Kaspersky
found both to be infected (different viruses) and successfully cleaned them
both.
Obviously I now think that my AVG is not providing me adequate protection.
I have nothing against AVG, in fact until recently I was recommending it,
like many of the experts (I am not one) on this forum have too, but the
facts are the facts. I emailed AVG but got no response back.
*** Recommendation: Run Kaspersky's free trial program on your PC. You
might be surprised at the results and if it disinfects your PCs, there would
be that many less viruses infecting others. I have no connection with
Kaspersky other than what I related.
Now, I need advice. I would love to purchase Kaspersky's antivirus even
though it is expensive, but it uses up so much RAM that when I have it
installed it slows my PC (Pentium, 2.66 GHz, 512 MB RAM and XP Home SP1) to
a crawl. So I was forced to uninstall it.
Question: what can I use instead of AVG that would provide good protection?
--
Jeff Williams
Email address deliberately false to avoid spam
(e-mail address removed)
Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free by AVG
me to share this information and it might help all of us.
I have 3 PCs at home. All 3 are protected with constantly updated AVG as
well as Zone Alarm, Spybot, Ad-Aware, CW shredder, ActiveX disabled, no
Java, etc., etc. Recently I suspected I might have a Trojan on my laptop.
(See http://forum.aumha.org/viewtopic.php?p=46746#46746 ). So I ran an
updated AVG both in regular and in Safe Mode. Showed no viruses.
I went through all kinds of searches, finally showing the presence of
FxNetsky and maybe another. Ran Symantic's FxNetsky with no improvement
plus a whole string of other things. I was finally advised to try
Kaspersky's 30-day free trial antivirus software. Kaspersky's AV found 2
viruses and 7 infected objects, removed them all and I did not need to even
go into safe mode. Of course I ran it in safe mode again and it found
nothing else.
With this experience, I ran Kaspersky on my other 2 PCs even though AVG
showed them to be clean and I had no suspicions. Guess what? Kaspersky
found both to be infected (different viruses) and successfully cleaned them
both.
Obviously I now think that my AVG is not providing me adequate protection.
I have nothing against AVG, in fact until recently I was recommending it,
like many of the experts (I am not one) on this forum have too, but the
facts are the facts. I emailed AVG but got no response back.
*** Recommendation: Run Kaspersky's free trial program on your PC. You
might be surprised at the results and if it disinfects your PCs, there would
be that many less viruses infecting others. I have no connection with
Kaspersky other than what I related.
Now, I need advice. I would love to purchase Kaspersky's antivirus even
though it is expensive, but it uses up so much RAM that when I have it
installed it slows my PC (Pentium, 2.66 GHz, 512 MB RAM and XP Home SP1) to
a crawl. So I was forced to uninstall it.
Question: what can I use instead of AVG that would provide good protection?
--
Jeff Williams
Email address deliberately false to avoid spam
(e-mail address removed)
Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free by AVG