I forgot to mention that one of the major reasons for ditching AVG was
its propensity to find false positives, pluck them from their normal
homes and place them in virus jail. I really hadn't paid much attention
to what it was finding and placing in jail since it was running during
the night and shutting down afterwards. But then I attempted to run
something (I can't remember what) and it failed for lack of a file. AVG
had removed a system file from the Windows system32 directory and put it
in jail. I was initially a bit shaken that my system was infected and
went to Microsoft's web site where I was able to download a replacement
copy. But then I tried a bit-for-bit comparison and found them to be
equal. Then I looked further and discovered another 10 or so files in
the virus jail that had come from various application folders. So I did
some Googling on some specific file names and discovered that complaints
about AVG's propensity to find false positives with these files was
rather wide spread. That's when I decided to try Avast. I moved all
the supposedly infected files back to their application folders and
tasked Avast to scan the entire system. It found nothing at all and AVG
was no longer welcome here.
Chuck Norcutt
Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> I had also switched to AVG on advice from here but it began to grow
> tiresome for its use of resources. So, also on advice received here I
> switched to Avast and am much happier. Avast is a different sort of
> animal. It doesn't do a full scan of the drive unless asked to do so
> and can also do a rootkit check if requested. Normally it just checks
> whatever you're actively using as it comes in off the net or gets loaded
> off the disk. After an initial full scan it makes much more sense to do
> it that way. It's operation is really not very noticeable except for
> the first couple of minutes after boot when it gets very busy doing I
> know not exactly what. Recommended when you finally get ready to toss AVG.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> Joel Wilcox wrote:
>> I don't disagree, though we have a corporate version at work which is
>> configured centrally and pushed out via SMS. Phones home via
>> LiveUpdate and is unproblematic and transparent. I don't know what
>> our IT people do to manage it so well. I used to use it on my home
>> computer as well with no issues but have since switched to AVG (whose
>> footprint however grows ever larger -- hmmmm.)
>>
>> Joel W.
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Chuck Norcutt
>> <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> I feel the same. I ripped out Norton Anti Virus years ago. And ripping
>>> out is a good description. It was totally unable to uninstall itself
>>> completely which was another major problem. Too bad. It used to be the
>>> cat's meow.
>>>
>>> Chuck Norcutt
>>>
>>> Bob Whitmire wrote:
>>>> I'd rather give up photography, stop using a computer, and
>>>> become a hermit monk than let another Symantec product on a computer
>>>> of mine.
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