[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 16:18:10 +0100

Well, my equipment was definitely set up by a competent person. I don't know whether it's the latest iteration of the standard though and don't know how to find out; nor do I want to because the "live box" from Wanadoo/Orange was a nightmare to set up and I have no desire to tinker with it now. But I do know that this kind of patchy experience seems pretty commonplace. Good that yours is working better. 


Catherine
----- Original Message ----- From: "Gordon Keen" <gordon.keen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 11:41 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Warning about AVG and other Anti-virus packages
Sorry but this is not the experience I have had with my wireless connection, admittably at the back of my garden in the summer house I have to ensure the 
mac book is pointed at the house but within the house it's fine even when
streaming audio.
Oh yes and my house is a four bedroom detached construction of modern timber frame with metal foil insulation, I can only guess at what is causing others 
problems but I suspect they have not gone for the latest iteration of the
standard or have not had the equipment set up by a competent person.

Regards
Gordon
From glorious Devon, England
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
Wendy Sharpe
Sent: 14 August 2007 09:47
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Warning about AVG and other Anti-virus packages
All this sounds rather like DAB radio, and the way you have to find the best place in the house for tuning. Even then, many of the stations grumble when 
you try to play them.  All these new ideas are very well, but some of them
don't seem to be working very well.  I think for now I'll stick to my
old-fashioned wired PC and FM/AM radios.

Wendy

-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
Catherine Turner
Sent: 14 August 2007 08:15
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Warning about AVG and other Anti-virus packages

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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