avist NEWBIE-- confused

[MB_]

I'm an AVG user and I'm reasonably satisfied with it. However, I wanted
another AV program just for a "second opinion" scan. I d/l Avist. I must be
doing something wrong because when I boot the Avist icon seems to be
"turning" forever. It also stays grey and doesn't turn blue.

I must have some setting screwed up. I was able to do a "thorough" scan, but
after that I got rid of it.

Any ideas about what my error might be?

MB

 

[Radio Man]

Try turning off or exiting AVG while Avisit is running.
It is best to only have one antivirus program running at a time.
Sometimes one antivirus program will affect another.

 

[Max M.Wachtel III]

I'm an AVG user and I'm reasonably satisfied with it. However, I wanted
another AV program just for a "second opinion" scan. I d/l Avist. I must be
doing something wrong because when I boot the Avist icon seems to be
"turning" forever. It also stays grey and doesn't turn blue.

I must have some setting screwed up. I was able to do a "thorough" scan, but
after that I got rid of it.

Any ideas about what my error might be?

MB

Avast will not run resident while another AV is installed.
If you want a "second opinion",try
A^2,Sysclean,or any number of online scanners.
I have many listed(with links)on my site.
http://www.geocities.com/maxpro4u/madmax.html
-max
P.S. the latest update has many "false positives" that
avast needs to fix.

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[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

P.S. the latest update has many "false positives" that avast needs
to fix.

Max, what kind of false positives? I just ran a scan with db 0501-1
on my W2K box, and nothing was reported other than my Eicar test files
it always finds (as expected).

 

[Max M.Wachtel III]

Max, what kind of false positives? I just ran a scan with db 0501-1 on
my W2K box, and nothing was reported other than my Eicar test files it
always finds (as expected).

it seems that many MS games,Zoo Tycoon for one are being tagged as
Win32:trojano-872. Here is link to Avast forum thread.
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=10193.0
-max
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[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

it seems that many MS games,Zoo Tycoon for one are being tagged as
Win32:trojano-872. Here is link to Avast forum thread.
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=10193.0 -max

Ah, thanks. Looks like games are a problem. <g>
No games on my box.

 

[MB_]

I thought I did turn off AVG. I disabled it in my start menu via configsys

Mel

 

[RodneyKShanley]

Try turning off or exiting AVG while Avisit is running.
It is best to only have one antivirus program running at a time.
Sometimes one antivirus program will affect another.

 

[Roger Wilco]

It was hard to tell what your contribution to this thread was, but ...

A citizen of Troy, or a shortened form of "trojan horse" where something
(usually undesired) pretends to be something else (usually desired) to
get past someones defenses. As far as malware is concerned a "trojan"
would be a malicious program that fits the above description - and since
desireability is subjective there isn't a concrete programmatical
definition.

You might have gotten more (and different) definitions had you started
your own thread with this subject, or just gotten flamed by people
telling you to read the FAQ before posting as this Question gets Asked
Frequently.

 

[Tarmac]

It was hard to tell what your contribution to this thread was, but ...


A citizen of Troy, or a shortened form of "trojan horse" where
something (usually undesired) pretends to be something else (usually
desired) to get past someones defenses. As far as malware is
concerned a "trojan" would be a malicious program that fits the above
description - and since desireability is subjective there isn't a
concrete programmatical definition.

You might have gotten more (and different) definitions had you started
your own thread with this subject, or just gotten flamed by people
telling you to read the FAQ before posting as this Question gets Asked
Frequently.

Right .. an example might be a game or a screen-saver trojan .. sure you
get to play a game or run a screensaver, but there's a little extra that
came with the game or screensaver, it's real purpose .. the trojan package
that scans for passwords or somesuch. You install it to play the game, the
hacker wrote it to spy on you - a sort of a win win, eh?

 

[Roger Wilco]

Right .. an example might be a game or a screen-saver trojan .. sure you
get to play a game or run a screensaver, but there's a little extra that
came with the game or screensaver, it's real purpose .. the trojan package
that scans for passwords or somesuch. You install it to play the game, the
hacker wrote it to spy on you - a sort of a win win, eh?

Another example comes to mind from a different thread in a different
group (in a galaxy far far away...) where there was a Microsoft
"PowerPoint" presentation file. Evidently certain versions of the
program support VBA and there is a vulnerability that allows abitrary
code execution (heap overflow) so what "should" be a data file can
become a trojan. Also, it is not necessary that a trojan still appears
to give the user the expected as well as the unexpected.

http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2003-0347