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| 356859 | 2005-05-19 23:11:00 | Hi everyone. A couple of months back my HDD died and when the new one was installed I didnt reinstall Nortons 2004 as it only had a couple of weeks to go before renewal. Instead I installed AVG free version mainly because of the favourable comments from a few F1er's about AVG and how good it was. Things went okay until last Sunday, whilst receiving a few emails, I got a warning on screen from AVG that it had detected a virus. Ah ha I thought AVG will remove this but no way hosea. It wouldnt "heal it' "delete file" or "move to vault" - all I got was "Requested action is not available for this object" The Virus Detected message stated "Virus Detected while opening file c:\Program files\ AVG Free\avgamsps.dll @ CoreException C0000005, 0003549C. It then seemed to affect all the computer as I couldnt run IE at the time, it said I did not have the necessary permissions. So I switched the computer off and rang my technician who arrived yesterday. When we restarted the computer is was clear of any virus. I now wonder if AVG gave a false alert. I know you get what you paid for and I remember "tweak'e" making a comment in a recent thread that "AVG detects virus very well but doesnt always remove them". In view of my experience and "tweak'e's" comment I wonder why AVG gets such a good write up by various contributors to this forum. I have now installed NOD32, which I should have done instead of installing AVG in the first place. smithie 38 |
smithie 38 (6684) | ||
| 356860 | 2005-05-19 23:17:00 | well nothing is perfect . i sometimes find a few virus's that AVG can't remove (tho i see avg has got around a lot of the permissions problems lately) but stand alone removal tools will do the job . having said that other antivirus progs are known to suffer the same problem . nod32 is ment to be very good tho i've never run it on an infected pc . |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 356861 | 2005-05-19 23:25:00 | Oh for perfect world eh? Oh well ... in the mean time I will continue to have faith in AVG, especially as it is free unlike many others (and a lot of those being inferior), and manually fix any that happen to get through, not that I have had to on my own computer yet (touch wood) in 5yrs of using it (AVG). Not bad for a free product I feel. | |llus|oN (645) | ||
| 356862 | 2005-05-19 23:32:00 | That looks more like an error (perhaps due to a corrupt file) than a real virus error message. CoreException C0000005, 0003549C relates to an access violation error. Its not a desription of a virus. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 356863 | 2005-05-20 09:48:00 | actually i suspect the error message would be caused by one of the new type of virus's that use a few tricks to self protect itself. basicly it kills anything that tries to remove it. | tweak'e (69) | ||
| 356864 | 2005-05-20 10:28:00 | actually i suspect the error message would be caused by one of the new type of virus's that use a few tricks to self protect itself. basicly it kills anything that tries to remove it. So being a Computer Technician trying ro remove it would have a short life then ????? PJ :lol: :lol: |
Poppa John (284) | ||
| 356865 | 2005-05-20 10:33:00 | LOL poppa john. yeah that will be next no doubt...a virus the electrocutes the user when they try to remove it. | tweak'e (69) | ||
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