RE: Inaccessible AVG update message

I can answer that. If you didn't have any viruses, that's just it, your computer was clean. You could run all the major virus checkers on the market and if your computer was free of viruses, then NOD 32 isn't going to give you false positives, meaning that it's not gonna flag every file it finds as a virus.
Also, on a lot of systems I've used, AVG seems to slow down the system's performance during a scan. It got to be so bad on my girlfriend's machine that I had to stop the scan, reboot and try it again. Hey if you AVG users like it that's certainly fine. All Bruce and I are saying is that we wouldn't use it. So I'm not saying you shouldn't. i'm saying i wouldn't. Yep, AVG is certainly screenreader friendly, that's for sure. But it definitely rates lower. It even missed a couple of infected files that NOD 32 found so I'm awfully glad I switched. 




At 12:51 AM 2/4/2007, you wrote:

Bruce:

I have run AVG for 2 and a half years on my current computer.  After hearing
you and some others say it was not reliable I decided to make sure I was
clean.  I uninstalled AVG, installed Nod 32 and did a scan, the computer was
clean.  I also tried Trend Micro which I can get free from the university
where I teach, it indicated my computer is clean.  I went back to AVG.

Can you substantiate the claims you have been making against AVG?



Robert McCoy
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-----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Bruce Toews
Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2007 1:25 PM
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Subject: RE: Inaccessible AVG update message

I believe AVG to be very untrustworthy under the best of circumstances, so
this becomes doubly important.

bruce

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On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, Chris Skarstad wrote:

> I completely agree!
> It is not wise to keep your antivirus program out of date, with all
> the viruses around, you're liable to be caught if you're definitions
> aren't up to date.
> Besides, AVG 7.5 is completely screen-reader friendly, so you're
> actually doing yourself a disservice by not upgrading.
>
>
>
>
> At 09:55 AM 2/3/2007, you wrote:
>> You may not be getting the updates.  To be sure you are, you need to
>> check to determine what the date of your last update is.
>> It is not wise to refrain from updating your antivirus program, and
>> perhaps even less wise when it is free.
>>
>>
>> Robert McCoy
>> St. Thomas University - Sociology
>> D104 James Dunn Hall
>> Work: (506) 452-0423
>> Home: 506-459-6636
>>
>> Do you volunteer?  There are a lot of excellent not-for-profit
>> organizations that can use a few hours of your time.
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
>> Behalf Of Alan Clendinen
>> Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2007 10:20 AM
>> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Inaccessible AVG update message
>>
>> Hello listers,
>>
>> Once a week, I am getting a message after I boot up that JAWS can't read.
>> The only thing JAWS is able to read is the window header, which says
>> something about a deadline approaching. A sighted person was able to
>> read the message contents, and told me it was about support for AVG
>> ending on a particular date, and that I needed to upgrade to AVG 7.5.
>> I think the date was supposed to be January 15. That date has come
>> and gone, yet I am still getting weekly virus definition updates, and
>> that message about my older version of AVG expiring is still popping up
once each week.
>>
>> If I download the free version of AVG 7.5 and install it, will it use
>> my earlier configuration settings for AVG?
>>
>> Alan
>>
>>
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