AVG is dead?

[Macro2]

Is there a url.ini fix for AVG 7

 

[rh71]

Wow I got away from NAV because AVG seemed easier. After it stopped working - I decided to go back to NAV.

 

[Medea]

eTrust EZ Antivirus is an excellent AV program. The license for the first year costs $25 and $10 for every year after that. Updates are available just about every other day, and the downloads are hassle-free. It's an auto-download, installs, and no reboots are necessary. Another plus is that it's not a system hogger. It's owned by CA and, IIRC, I think this is the same company who made Innoculate IT.

If anyone is looking for an AV program to replace their current program, I highly recommend it.

 

[ginfest]

Originally posted by: wayliff

Originally posted by: OZEE
Create a new text file with wordpad or notepad. Copy/paste this text into that file.


[SERVER_NAME]
1=free.grisoft.cz
2=ftp.grisoft.com
3=www.grisoft.com

[SERVER_URL]
1=http://free.grisoft.cz/softw/60/fe
2=ftp.grisoft.com/pub/softw/60/fe/
3=http://www.grisoft.com/softw/60/fe/
Actual URL=3


Save this file as url.ini in your avg directory. Shut down avg and restart it... select the 3rd option and retry the download. I'm not sure what's going on with grisoft's website, but this fixes it.

THANK YOU! WORKED LIKE A CHARM!

nice one😀
thanks

Mike G

 

[duhh]

I've said it before and I will say it again, don't bother using AVG unless you are only looking to catch 6 month old viruses. It gets destroyed in real world tests month after month. Mind you they are even rating version 7.0, you know, the professional higher end one? results

I also agree with wayliff. Eset does quite well for themselves.

If you are looking for free though, take advantage of the microsoft / CA partnership for etrust is a great way to go. Its only free for a year, but its a very good solution. The windows platform hasnt had a fail since fail since 2000

 

[OZEE]

If AVG is soooo bad ^^^^^^^^^ why does AVG - in my personal experience - catch so many viruses that both McAfee and NAV miss??? I've seen this time after time after time.

 

[duhh]

Try getting virtual pc make a box for each product and start looking for infected files to break them if you dont beleive the tests.

 

[wayliff]

Originally posted by: OZEE
If AVG is soooo bad ^^^^^^^^^ why does AVG - in my personal experience - catch so many viruses that both McAfee and NAV miss??? I've seen this time after time after time.

As of me I just LOVE it. I've been using it for about 3 years now.

Since the server problem started I have found it a little too problematic...dont take me wrong ... i dont mind taking two extra minutes to update but it just even takes forever to download the update files. It took about 5 minutes to download one of those using a DSL connection. And at the office they have a T1 and the thing still takes forever.

So i really hope the issues get corrected.

I would not trade for NAV, MCAFEE or others. Use too much of the resources. In addition to other things.
Eset is on my list though.

 

[Macro2]

When I switched from NAV to AVG, AVG immediately picked up 3 trojans NAV had missed. They had gone right through NAV like a seive.

As far as McAffee, my experience is that McAffee is much better than NAV as well.

Now, recently, AVG caught a few viruses but could do nothing with them. They somehome made it on to my computer even when AVG recognized them.

I ran Panda online scanner and it found 2 and healed them. Dunno what they were.

After an update, AVG caught Reg33.exe and quarantined it, which was one of ones it couldn't heal before.

Overall I'm happy with AVG, despite the PROBLEMS updating the program recently.

MORAL of the story is that some virues will get through somewhere, some how.

 

[cheapherk]

I have to manually update until after readibg this thread- Read here!