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| Thread ID: 51916 | 2004-12-03 04:48:00 | Best free antivirus program? | Wilky (776) | Press F1 |
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| 299401 | 2004-12-10 10:32:00 | Do avg & avast both remove any virus they find or just advise you that you have it? A friend had avg installed and it told him he had three virii in his pc but a later scan with Nav find them still there and that actually removed them. | Peter M (852) | ||
| 299402 | 2004-12-10 10:37:00 | I don't know about AVG, but avast! has several options available. If you let avast! generate the VRDB (Virus Recovery Database, or similar), it analyses files in spare time and creates a database with which it may be able to repair infected files. There's a setting somewhere that you use to specify the maximum size of the VRDB. So, avast! will let you delete, quarantine, repair, or leave the file alone (I believe their may be one or two more options, but it was a while ago that I last saw the options dialog). |
agent (30) | ||
| 299403 | 2004-12-10 11:34:00 | Anywhere in Hawkes Bay is good :) I use AVG myself but have found virus' fairly hard to come by. I've only had 1 worm in the last 3-4 years. Recently I was only running a firewall for about a month, no anti-virus, and nothing untoward happened. I would suggest a good free firewall&anti-virus program is enough for most people. |
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