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| Thread ID: 89601 | 2008-05-05 18:09:00 | 13,302 False Positives w/AVG 8.0? | SurferJoe46 (51) | Press F1 |
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| 666263 | 2008-05-05 18:09:00 | Good grief . . . I thought that the new AVG Free was better . . . but somehow it seems to have found all the stuff that Spybot has in it's black list, and has notified me that I have them ALL! I know it has to be wrong because some of the "findings" are so bad that they would never allow the puter online at all . What's up with the new AVG? The scan has been going on for hours in just the C drive . . . and yet there are 7 more hdds to go thru . If I can get a logfile of the results, I'll post them here . . . . IF this ever stops . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 666264 | 2008-05-05 18:27:00 | Crumbs that's not a good sign. I've just recommended the product to an associate who is clueless with computers :eek: | Greg (193) | ||
| 666265 | 2008-05-05 19:09:00 | I have the "J" drive scan running right now . . . but all the bad stuff seems to have been in the <root> or "C" drive . 4 hours and 49 minutes of scan so far too . BUT . . . . all my other puters seem to have no problem with 8 . 0 . . so maybe this is just a fluke . . . I'll let it run till it's happy and check it all out when it's done . Don't panic yet . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 666266 | 2008-05-05 22:30:00 | I thought that the new AVG Free was better . . . but somehow it seems to have found all the stuff that Spybot has in it's black list, and has notified me that I have them ALL! Apparently the black list is a real entry in the registry to fool the malware into thinking that it is already installed . . grisoft . cz/freeforum/read . php?4,121730,backpage=4,sv=" target="_blank">forum . grisoft . cz |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 666267 | 2008-05-06 04:04:00 | Apparently the black list is a real entry in the registry to fool the malware into thinking that it is already installed . . grisoft . cz/freeforum/read . php?4,121730,backpage=4,sv=" target="_blank">forum . grisoft . cz I believe that . . after all that's the same hdd where I have installed Spybot . . . and now that the actual scan is completed, AVG doesn't even bother to report them as nasty . . . just hazardous . Phew! I thought it had bought the farm . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 666268 | 2008-05-06 10:37:00 | Hi, Surfer Joe. An allied (but not really connected) query. I can't seem to find a link on the AVG site to AVG 8.0 Free - only a 'pay for' one. Can you point me to it? Cheers. | A Team (13613) | ||
| 666269 | 2008-05-06 11:07:00 | Click any one of the flags to download www.majorgeeks.com | pheonix (36) | ||
| 666270 | 2008-05-06 11:46:00 | Hi, Surfer Joe. An allied (but not really connected) query. I can't seem to find a link on the AVG site to AVG 8.0 Free - only a 'pay for' one. Can you point me to it? Cheers.Yeah it's quite annoying how much of their pay-for stuff you have to scroll through to actually get their free version. Dirty marketing tactics is what I call it. Also, I wonder why the previous version was a 17 meg download... latest is well over 40 megs! |
Greg (193) | ||
| 666271 | 2008-05-07 03:05:00 | Hi Just downloading 8.0 free version now. Before I install it, should I uninstall 7.0 first? Or can I just go ahead and install the new version? Thanks Oxie |
Oxie (1318) | ||
| 666272 | 2008-05-07 03:28:00 | Yeah it's quite annoying how much of their pay-for stuff you have to scroll through to actually get their free version. Dirty marketing tactics is what I call it. C'mon Greg, it is free after all. Oxie I had to uninstall 7 first. |
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