AVG Anti-Virus - is it good?

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["Demetrius Zeluff"; Fri, 04 Jun 2004 17:36:43 GMT]
AVG is good. It works. AVG combined with Pegasus is a pain; it finds
viruses but won't find them when scanning and won't let you delete the
infected email. Getting past that is a kludge.
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Same here. I have to browse to the directory and manually delete the .cmn
file. But it doesn't happen too often, at least. (I'm more concerned about
PM locking up my computer when I first open a message. It might involve
AVG -- I don't know.)
 
No antivirus is perfect - for every case where people say AVG missed
something, there'll be others where it found something that others
missed. Most do ok against the current "wild list", though if you
indulge in unsafe practices, you should "sheep dip" all incomings with
as many AV's as possible, preferably holding them unrtil the next
update.
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That will only work with in the wild viruses and worms, which you can
reasonably expect all AVS to eventually detect. For trojans and the alike
this is not guaranteed.

Avast and Antivir PE seem to be the other main free contenders, with
F-Prot DOS useful as a check.
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And there are other 1 year limited software I guess.
AntiVir PE generally seems to rate stronger on non-viral malware,
which many AVs don't seem to give enough attention to.
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I believe Antivir basically does lots of dialers, adware, joke programs
etc. Stuff that are covered by other antimalware programs.



Aaron (my email is not munged!)
 
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