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Thread ID: 95741 2008-12-15 23:25:00 Warning about Avast anti virus and false positive. robbyp (2751) Press F1
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729475 2008-12-16 10:53:00 IMO AVG works just as well as Avast!

AVG on my dads PC, Avast! on mine

No virus problems on either

The most important thing in an AV is the on-access protection, both AVG and Avast! have good on-access protection

AVG isn't better than Avast!
Blam (54)
729476 2008-12-16 19:30:00 I challenge you to put AVG on your PC, then say that again after a week. :) wratterus (105)
729477 2008-12-16 22:00:00 Probably coz they're illegal. And they do contain / install malware

Someone probably used them, on those work computers, and now they're infected

No, it's usually because of the way they pack the .exe's - they use some compression method that makes a lot of AV's falsely report them as a virus.

If you're getting trojans/malware from keygens, you need to find a better source :D
autechre (266)
729478 2008-12-16 22:05:00 Well true it maybe the way theyre packed. Some still install / contain malware tho Speedy Gonzales (78)
729479 2008-12-16 22:24:00 I challenge you to put AVG on your PC, then say that again after a week. :)

I have had AVG for years and It works well. Avast gave me no end of grief but I would change to it if hell freezes over.
prefect (6291)
729480 2008-12-16 23:56:00 I have had AVG for years and It works well. Avast gave me no end of grief but I would change to it if hell freezes over.

Stuff AVG. I had it for years and it worked well most of the time until one day, unbeknown to me at the time, it failed to allow an important email to be sent.

That caused me a lot of distress when I found out about it so I will never again use AVG on my computers.
FoxyMX (5)
729481 2008-12-17 03:37:00 I challenge you to put AVG on your PC, then say that again after a week. :)

I will!:p
Blam (54)
729482 2008-12-17 18:05:00 Yes I was an AVG user for years.
Then I got version 8.00 (bloatware)
It slowed my machine, had lots of corrupt scan files and it was hard to get viurus updates.
Their forum was full of people having the same problems and AVG did not seem to be trying to fix th eproblems,

So I got Avast and its been good so far.
Digby (677)
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