Why you should stop using AVG!

LazyLion

LazyLion

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I have been using AVG since version 6 of their free Anti-Virus... so I was very disappointed in AVG 8.0 because of its false positives and its bandwidth chomping as was reported by Librarian here earlier...

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=123452

I have switched to Avast Free Home Edition to save on bandwidth and to protect my data.

Slashdot is reporting that an unintended consequence of AVG's new Tactic is that the web is being flooded with false IE traffic (because AVG falsely reports its website enquiries as being from IE)... some sites are seeing a 6% increase in traffic from these false requests... Slashdot Article...

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?no_d2=1&sid=08/07/03/1411254

Which quotes this report...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/26/avg_disguises_fake_traffic_as_ie6/
 
To install AVG without LinkScanner simply use:

avg_free_stf_*.exe /REMOVE_FEATURE fea_AVG_SafeSurf /REMOVE_FEATURE fea_AVG_SafeSearch
 
I think that idea was a good intention which backfired.

Instead of pre-scanning the URL being clicked upon after a Google/Yahoo/Webcrawler/<insert your search engine here> it scans all the possible links.

Surely it won't hurt performance just to scan the content as it's being accessed in realtime?
 
Franna said:
To install AVG without LinkScanner simply use:

avg_free_stf_*.exe /REMOVE_FEATURE fea_AVG_SafeSurf /REMOVE_FEATURE fea_AVG_SafeSearch
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Thanks, but I would rather send a message to AVG that they are falling behind in the rankings. Too bad. They were a good product.
 
The_Librarian said:
I think that idea was a good intention which backfired.

Instead of pre-scanning the URL being clicked upon after a Google/Yahoo/Webcrawler/<insert your search engine here> it scans all the possible links.

Surely it won't hurt performance just to scan the content as it's being accessed in realtime?
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That is how Nod32 works.
 
ok, so Avast is a POS as well...

in the last hour it has had two false positives on its first scan...

1) A joke program called drunk.exe which makes your screen shake. Avast won't let me move/delete/rename or ignore the program. No matter what I click it comes back with the same pop-up for the same file over and over again. I clicked on "report" but it won't let me make a report, just asks me a few dumb questions about how many files I lost and what the value was. :(

2) a keygen for a certain graphics manipulation program... once again a Trojan.gen (generic). No other virus scanner (except AVG) picked up the same file as a problem.

I did try McAfee as well, but it was also a POS... please tell me that there is a better product out there?
 
Garyvdh said:
Thanks, but I would rather send a message to AVG that they are falling behind in the rankings. Too bad. They were a good product.
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I second that motion - I loved their product, until 8.0's shenna****ns
:(
 
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