Is everyone on a public computer?
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Yeah, that worked. Except before I could do so, the virus would get onto my computer, and would reinfect the formatted stick...
Anyway, eventually the university network got rid of it and I managed to purge it from both my computer and the stick. But what a pain!
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Windows. Internet Explorer. AVG anti-virus. Eleven years online. One virus in all that time.
As far as I can tell, good online surfing habits, caution in downloading, and careful scrutiny of email are better protection than any thing else.
As far as I can tell, good online surfing habits, caution in downloading, and careful scrutiny of email are better protection than any thing else.
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Great.
You just broke all my games.
My GPIB test software
My STL 3D Mesh Software
and about $1000 in other software.
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In what way? Well Avast can delete anything and everything. I have seen it delete things that AVG may find but not be able to remove. go to the avast home page and look at the 1000 awards it has recieved. There are many different editions for professionals and the lay person, but they are not free. The casual home user cannot lose.
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Well, after a little bit of looking, I found this:
http://blog.shankarganesh.com/2007/11/07/avg-vs-avast/
The scanning while the screensaver is active and during boot sound interesting. I may give it a try next time I boot into Windows.
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Thanks for posting. I hope this helps others. I have been in computer security for a minute and this is what we all use on our own stuff, and of course IDS.
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I've used avast for years, after the last automatic program update (like a month or so ago) after the reboot my comp would lock on the desktop and go no further, refusing to load anything, after much work I figured out that it was the update to avast causing the problems... I uninstalled/reinstalled/reupdated it and same thing.
Very sad, after 6+ years of avast I have to switch to AVG.
Very sad, after 6+ years of avast I have to switch to AVG.
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