Re: How to activate AVG buttons in a threat alert

  • From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:12:53 -0800

Hi Chris,

I neglected to ask you this: Do you personally use AVG Free Edition 
antivirus software? If so, have you ever encountered the specific scenario 
I've described having difficulty with? Thanks very much.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Hallsworth" <christopherhallsworth71@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 2:02 AM
Subject: Re: How to activate AVG buttons in a threat alert


Hi, have you ever considered clicking the more info button to find out
information about that particular threat? Just a thought.
Chris Hallsworth
BrailleNote mPower User
Website: www.chrishallsworth.co.nr
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jennifer Aberdeen" <freespirit328@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 10:52 PM
Subject: Re: How to activate AVG buttons in a threat alert


> This happened to me last week. I just ran a thorough scan again and it got
> rid of it. The threat was an obfustat.zxs or something...don't have a clue
> what it might be.
>
> I'm sorry I don't have a solution...just thought I'd let you know that
> you're not alone.
>
> Jen
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "JFW List" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 4:29 PM
> Subject: How to activate AVG buttons in a threat alert
>
>
>> For the first time ever, I got a threat advisory from AVG Free Edition. I
>> was in the kitchen and heard Jaws speaking, as if it had focused on
>> something completely unfamiliar to me. I came back to the computer just
>> in
>> time to hear that I was being read  a dialogue telling me about a Trojan
>> found in some program or other, DLL  you know sort of thing, many
>> numbers,
>> and asking me if I wanted to heal, move to virus vault, and so forth.
>> Except
>> just as I instinctively  began pressing my tab key to move among the
>> options, as I imagined I'd be able to do, the thing just disappeared,
>> leaving me in the interface of the AVG control center, which apparently
>> had
>> been launched in order to display this advisory.
>>
>> I don't know what to do. Can I make that dialogue reappear? And then, if
>> it
>> stays visible long enough, how can I decide which control to activate and
>> how to activate it?
>>
>> Thanks. This is worrisome. I don't want to leave some threat sitting in a
>> file possibly able to do damage if I don't respond .
>>
>>
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