AVAST

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Ehisa Sto Mouni Sou

I found out about this AV and when I went to register to get the "serial"
from them, TWICE it has yet to send me a key! I think I am going to buy NAV
2004 and be done with this crap already! Oiiiiiiiiiiii! No such thing as
FREE LUNCH!
 
Quoth the raven named Ehisa Sto Mouni Sou:
I found out about this AV and when I went to register to get the
"serial" from them, TWICE it has yet to send me a key! I think I am
going to buy NAV 2004 and be done with this crap already!
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When I first registered avast! some time ago, the email with the code
arrived within about a half-hour, maybe less. If it has been more
than, say, a day, try again with an address from a different server or
ISP. Hopefully, the message wasn't blocked or shunted aside by a spam
program. Check your email filters, too.
Oiiiiiiiiiiii! No such thing as FREE LUNCH!
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Well, mostly... <g>
 
I registered directly from their site.
Anyway, I'll see what's going on tomorrow I suppose!
 
No such thing as
FREE LUNCH!
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I had no problem with anything. After two weeks I love the antivirus.
It has found about 40 emails containing viruses and let me delete them
before they got downloaded to my computer.

I think there is such a thing as a free lunch.
 
BF said:
No such thing as

I had no problem with anything. After two weeks I love the antivirus.
It has found about 40 emails containing viruses and let me delete them
before they got downloaded to my computer.

I think there is such a thing as a free lunch.
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If your software doesn't download the file, how can it scan it to determine
it's a virus?
I mean other than issuing the "TOP" command, looking at the header seeing
something like "attachment = insert-virus-name-here.exe" then issuing the
"DEL" command.

Just curious.
Dr.X
 
OK it turns out you must install the program first and THEN from the browser
it offers to launch into registration do you get the serial #.
Anyway, I am hoping this one will work better than AVG!
 
Ehisa said:
OK it turns out you must install the program first and THEN from the browser
it offers to launch into registration do you get the serial #.
Anyway, I am hoping this one will work better than AVG!
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I've been using avast for about a month.
Smooth sailing so far!
 
OK it turns out you must install the program first and THEN from the browser
it offers to launch into registration do you get the serial #.
Anyway, I am hoping this one will work better than AVG!
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It depends on how YOU set it up, at 1st I turned everything on & set
everything to high, then over time I've turned & lowered some settings.
It definitely isn't just a download it & forget it piece of software.
Also, make sure everything from AVG has been uninstalled or stopped at
boot up, otherwise your resident shield won't work.
 
Dr.X said:
If your software doesn't download the file, how can it scan it to determine
it's a virus?
I mean other than issuing the "TOP" command, looking at the header seeing
something like "attachment = insert-virus-name-here.exe" then issuing the
"DEL" command.

Just curious.
Dr.X
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It sees the virus on the mail server first, and notifies you before it
writes the infected e-mail to your local hard drive.

Gregg C.
 
Gregg Cattanach said:
It sees the virus on the mail server first, and notifies you before it
writes the infected e-mail to your local hard drive.

Gregg C.
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Does it make a copy in memory?

Dr.X
 
Does it make a copy in memory?
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From what I can tell it scans it and finds it on the server. You can
then delete the virus. Then the email will show up in your inbox as
infected but without the virus. I don't think it ever gets loaded into
memory, but I could be wrong.
 
BF said:
From what I can tell it scans it and finds it on the server. You can
then delete the virus. Then the email will show up in your inbox as
infected but without the virus. I don't think it ever gets loaded into
memory, but I could be wrong.
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Unless some form of magic is involved, some or all of the attachment has to
get loaded into memory.
Dave Cohen
 
Dr.X said:
Zackly... :-|
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Unless the AV is running on the server, the suspect file must
be downloaded to the local machine in order to analyze it. If
it is downloaded - the chances are that at least part of it is
written out to disk because most OSes use virtual memory,
some of which is actually in the swap file or swap partition.

I think the statement was in error, and was actually meant
to imply that the "file" was not downloaded to the e-mail
client (inbox or whatever) but rather to the AV's proxy
client, analysed, and then passed on to the e-mail client
possibly modified.
 
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