[access-uk] Re: Warning about AVG and other Anti-virus packages

  • From: "Catherine Turner" <catherineturner2000@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:15:19 +0100

Hi Husna,

Well speaking from my own experience, I'd sum it up as being useful to have and sometimes stable, but not to be totally counted on, especially for listening to streams. I've found it ok for getting my e-mail most of the time, and usually ok for browsing, but have given up trying to listen to streams on it.

How good it is, apparently, depends on lots of factors, like where you have the router positioned, what other activity's going on in the area, how far away you try to use it etc. I have my router pretty high up and have found the connection much improved since then. But sometimes I still do get problems like the signal dropping all together every few minutes and this is without moving the router or the computer. But at other times it's usable for getting my e-mail and browsing.

Catherine
----- Original Message ----- From: "Husna Begum" <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 12:40 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Warning about AVG and other Anti-virus packages


Hi,

i was thinking of upgrading to wireless internet, isn't it stable then?

Husna

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Hallsworth" <christopherhallsworth71@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2007 9:48 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Warning about AVG and other Anti-virus packages


Katherine, by an unstable internet connection I mean, say, you're on
wireless, but it keeps dropping now and again, in fact every few minutes I
have to say, for no apparent reason. As a result web pages would either
load
slowly or not at all, files would either be downloaded as a corrupted copy
or download very slowly or even not at all, e-mails would take longer to
send/receive or even have problems connecting to the server in the first
place, and things like that. This is what my friend has been experiencing
at
college. Hope that helps.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Catherine Turner" <catherineturner2000@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2007 9:44 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Warning about AVG and other Anti-virus packages


> Hello Chris,
>
> Thanks for the info/warning, but what do you mean by an unstable
internet
> connection?
>
> Catherine
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Hallsworth" <christopherhallsworth71@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <blind-computing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
> <blindtech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2007 3:07 PM
> Subject: [access-uk] Warning about AVG and other Anti-virus packages
>
>
>> Hi all,
>> I know this may sound blatently obvious, but I thought I'd warn you
all,
>> thanks to a friend, that if your connection(s) are unstable, this may
>> cause
>> whatever antivirus you're using to Fail. My friend had to do a
reinstall
>> of
>> AVG Free today after discovering that some of the components were in >> an
>> undetermined state, and it turned out that she had lots of viruses
which
>> AVG
>> failed to pick up before the reinstall. I do not want this to happen >> to
>> you,
>> so this is why I'm sending the warning out. Thanks for reading!
>> Chris Hallsworth
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No virus found in this incoming message.
Checked by AVG Free Edition.
Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.11.15/949 - Release Date:
12/08/2007 11:03


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