[Leaplist] File Transfers

[Jason Boxman]

On Tuesday 08 September 2009 08:44:31 am Phil Barnett wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 23:30 -0400, Jason Boxman wrote:
> > Oh, and it wasn't matching email files that actually had trojans.
> > These were
> > ordinary email messages that AVG felt were otherwise extraordinary in
> > their
> > content.  I hand verified that none had trojans or generally even
> > attachments
> > or even HTML content.  Just utter false positives.  Fail.
>
> I just removed AVG from someones machine a few days ago and put on
> Avast. And the CPU went from 50% utilization down to 0%. And the machine
> became responsive again.

Avast is free for personal use?  The removal portion that runs before Windows 
loads the GUI is especially awful, as it tells you nothing other than a file is 
infected and offers a list of mostly unintuitive options.  I've never seen 
Repair actually work.

The best AV package I've ever used for Windows that actually Heals damaged 
files is, bar none, Dr Web's Cure It.  It successfully recovered a XP box with 
all core system files inflected, including System Restore files, without a 
reinstall.  Everything else I ran, Avast, AVG, whatever else, balked and 
wanted to quarantine core system files... Helpful.

It's free for individual usage, but it doesn't update and the signatures 
expire rather quickly.  For practical use it's good for already infected 
systems.  If I was paranoid about a box, I'd be willing to pay for a license, 
in fact.

http://bit.ly/20Bvzr




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