06 Feb 10
I received a message in my junk folder before purporting to be from UPS. It claimed that a parcel that I sent was going to be returned. INtrigued I looked at the atachment. I scanned it with AVG first. Nothing. I opened the .zip file and again scanned the resultant unzipped file with AVG. Nothing. I opened the file. Ooops. What a cock up!!!
06 Feb 10
Originally posted by jimslyp69What's 'AVG'?
I received a message in my junk folder before purporting to be from UPS. It claimed that a parcel that I sent was going to be returned. INtrigued I looked at the atachment. I scanned it with AVG first. Nothing. I opened the .zip file and again scanned the resultant unzipped file with AVG. Nothing. I opened the file. Ooops. What a cock up!!!
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06 Feb 10
Originally posted by jimslyp69silly cat.
I received a message in my junk folder before purporting to be from UPS. It claimed that a parcel that I sent was going to be returned. INtrigued I looked at the atachment. I scanned it with AVG first. Nothing. I opened the .zip file and again scanned the resultant unzipped file with AVG. Nothing. I opened the file. Ooops. What a cock up!!!
06 Feb 10
Originally posted by jimslyp69AVG is free so it is never going to be as good as the companies that make real money doing this sort of thing.
I received a message in my junk folder before purporting to be from UPS. It claimed that a parcel that I sent was going to be returned. INtrigued I looked at the atachment. I scanned it with AVG first. Nothing. I opened the .zip file and again scanned the resultant unzipped file with AVG. Nothing. I opened the file. Ooops. What a cock up!!!
Best antivirus to use: http://www.eset.com/
You'll actually have to spend money though.
06 Feb 10
Originally posted by hopscotchI did a load of (apparently worthless) research and then BOUGHT Norton 360. Now I am the butt of IT dudes jokes but I don't understand why 😞
AVG is free so it is never going to be as good as the companies that make real money doing this sort of thing.
Best antivirus to use: http://www.eset.com/
You'll actually have to spend money though.
06 Feb 10
Originally posted by jimslyp69lol Click and you shall get what you asked for! lol
I received a message in my junk folder before purporting to be from UPS. It claimed that a parcel that I sent was going to be returned. INtrigued I looked at the atachment. I scanned it with AVG first. Nothing. I opened the .zip file and again scanned the resultant unzipped file with AVG. Nothing. I opened the file. Ooops. What a cock up!!!
06 Feb 10
Originally posted by hopscotchI wasn't criticising AVG. I've always found it to be excellent. Rather I was criticising my own stupidity. About 20 seconds after double clicking on the file, AVG detected a Trojan Horse. It could not remove it though. After rebooting, my PC started logging me out as soon as I logged in. I managed to start in safe mode and run AVG in command prompt. This dug up all sorts of things but again failed to remove them. NetSky Worm was also detected. I ran 'Stinger' to no avail. I ran Hijack This which showed a registry key called Worm Radar and some several spammy keys called 'Buy Internet Security'. I removed these and rebooted only to discover that I could no longer boot into safe mode without being logged out again. At this point I got my shiny Windows disk out.
AVG is free so it is never going to be as good as the companies that make real money doing this sort of thing.
Best antivirus to use: http://www.eset.com/
You'll actually have to spend money though.
06 Feb 10
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyKaspersky 2010 is excellent! I was an AVG fan for many a year until it started being unable to remove stuff. I bought the Kasp 2010 suite and haven't had to look back! It does it all for you, unless you are Crowley and have time to do some deep reading into buying all the solo top end of the market stuff individually. For the average jack the lad who just wants a suite that's easy to use, my current opinion, and that of many, is that Kaspersky 2010 suite now far out-classes AVG suite no end.
Kaspersky any good?