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Markem

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Dec 8, 2006, 11:51:55 PM12/8/06
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Well I was streamlining SP2 and Win XP Pro, AVG (paid) says virus oh
my. Well they are having problems at Grisoft and I know I would like
to torture a few of them grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

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Brian G (Upstairs)

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Dec 9, 2006, 5:24:01 AM12/9/06
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You have lost me. What is the matter.

Brian

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Markem

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Dec 9, 2006, 8:44:34 AM12/9/06
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Brian G wrote:

"You have lost me. What is the matter."

My response

Grisoft AVG an anti-virus program is telling me that migrate.dll on
the original Window XP Professional CD is infected. Now how a virus
that was written after the release date of the Win XP could be on
there is unfathomable by me.

There are also other problems with the latest updates for AVG.
I checked on google and there are a lot of files AVG says are infected
with a virus that are not. The program is seeing Trojan horses in
uninfected files. It has screwed up two ISO I was making.

My temporary solution, turn off the scanning portions of AVG and wait.

Technology sucks (sometimes)

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boji...@aol.com

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Dec 9, 2006, 9:33:31 AM12/9/06
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Used to use the paid edition but had trouble with the d/ls , so went
over to the free edition of Avast ; no problems - also automatic
updates .
Jim

Brian Downstairs

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Dec 9, 2006, 11:02:21 AM12/9/06
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I had problems with access to the latter. The only oddity I've noticed in
avg is that it misses a Trojan in an email called alert, but thinks another
attach was infected, but allowed me to reinstate it OK. I assume you are
using the latest 7.5 engine?

I've not had it find anything on my master CD. I did hear though that some
nasty programs were actually putting bits of Microsoft code into themselves
to attempt to avoid detection.

Its a strange old world.

Brian

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Markem

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Dec 9, 2006, 11:13:51 AM12/9/06
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Brian Downstairs wrote:

" I assume you are
using the latest 7.5 engine?"

Yes. From what I have read out on the Web, it seems as the latest
update is the problem. Hopefully they are hard at work figuring it out
and a new update will fix it. I pray they do not rush something out
there in a panic. My setting are generally set to maximum or KILL KILL
KILL.

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Brian Downstairs

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Dec 9, 2006, 3:10:52 PM12/9/06
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Hmm, nothing too annoying here as yet.

Brian

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Markem

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Dec 9, 2006, 3:12:23 PM12/9/06
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On Sat, 09 Dec 2006 20:10:52 GMT, "Brian Downstairs"
<mildew...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

>Hmm, nothing too annoying here as yet.

New update seems much better.

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boji...@aol.com

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Dec 9, 2006, 4:56:17 PM12/9/06
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On Sat, 09 Dec 2006 16:19:18 -0500, rusho...@gmail.com (Norton
Zenger) wrote:

>Markem <markem(sixoneeight)@hotmail.com> come on down:


>
>>Well I was streamlining SP2 and Win XP Pro, AVG (paid) says virus oh
>>my. Well they are having problems at Grisoft and I know I would like
>>to torture a few of them grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
>

>Damn, I've been using AVG Free. Can you or someone else recommend a (free)
>alternative?

www.avast.com go to download page and get the free home
edition . Need to register (free) up to/within 60 days and then
re-register every year.
Jim

Stephen Harris

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Dec 9, 2006, 7:40:37 PM12/9/06
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Norton Zenger <rusho...@gmail.com> wrote:


> Markem <markem(sixoneeight)@hotmail.com> come on down:

> >Well I was streamlining SP2 and Win XP Pro, AVG (paid) says virus oh


> >my. Well they are having problems at Grisoft and I know I would like
> >to torture a few of them grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

> Damn, I've been using AVG Free. Can you or someone else recommend a (free)
> alternative?

The big name AV programs have reported false-positives in the past. It
happens. I think this is the second time AVG has done this in the years
I've been using it.

Just by co-incidence (I hadn't seen this thread until just now) I ran a
full scan on my Windows workstation an hour ago (it had frozen and
wasn't working properly, so I scanned in case _somehow_ _somehow_ it had
got infected) using AVG 7.5 Free and it didn't report any issues.

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