I remember telling a poster about how I used to use AVG (which never
found anything) until I switched to Avast! (which never found anything
even better).
)
I now use ClamWin, AntiVir, and Avast!, and have stuff for them to find.
This reminds me of something I ran into a year or so ago:
I was getting attack warnings from my anti-virus on several hobby-related
web sites I visit fairly often.
When I checked the forums on some of the sites, I discovered several reports
of the attacks from site users, as well as several other people insisting
there were no malware problems on the sites.
One of the more common responses to the malware reports went something like
this:
"I use 'Brand X' anti-virus and it's not reporting any problems when I visit
this site. So you should dump that piece of garbage you're using and switch
to my much better 'Brand X'; then you won't see those warnings either."
Needless to say, it turned out that the sites really did have a malware
problem, and some people visiting the sites did get infected.
The attacks were coming through an advertising service the sites had signed
up with (to help pay the bills for running their sites). Apparently it was
a legitimate advertising service that got careless about checking things:
one of their customers was a rogue, who was distributing malware mixed in
with his ads. The sites got together and yelled at the ad service, and they
cleaned up their act: haven't seen any more attacks from those sites in the
year or so since.
--
Nick <mailto:
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Nick's First Law of Computer Virus Complaints:
Just because your computer is acting strangely or one of your programs
doesn't work right, this does NOT mean that your computer has a virus.
