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Topic: Antivirus/Firewall Software (Read 9415 times)
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raydeen
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AVG, Spybot, AdAware and if I need a personal firewall, Sygate. You can still find free copies of it if you skulk around sites like Tucows. McAfee and Norton are possibly the worst things you can put on your system as they're both memory hogs and 9 times out of 10 don't have the latest and greatest virus defs and are prone to let stuff slip through and then send out an alert. Plus, most of the virus writers out there are smart enough to know how to deactivate Norton and McAfee. I don't see that problem with AVG or the other less used products. I can put AVG on any PC at the school where I work and run Norton, have it find nothing, then run AVG and watch the red words fly up the screen. I always put AVG on any system I work on and the only time I get calls from a customer is when that version of AVG is about to run out and they get concerned about how to put a new version on. The other products I would recommend would be NOD32 and Trend Micro. So far, I've heard nothing bad about either.
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fuser
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raydeen
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holy fuck. Seriously, what is in the water over there? Japan is the only country that can be cool and batshit insane at the same time. |
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WayAbvPar
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OK, so I went with AVG free edition, and have a 'how to' question. About half the time, it asks me to reboot my system after completing and update/scan. Is there any way to set it up to reboot automagically so I doesn't bug me?
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When speaking of the MMOG industry, the glass may be half full, but it's full of urine. HaemishM
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Reg
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That's odd. It asked me to reboot a couple of times in a row about two weeks ago and I wondered what was going on. It hasn't asked me to reboot before or since then.
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SnakeCharmer
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I don't think I've ever had to reboot after an update.  |
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caladein
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I think I've had to reboot a couple times for big version updates and such, but never for new virus definitions.
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"Point being, they can't make everyone happy, so I hope they pick me." - Ingmar"OH MY GOD WE'RE SURROUNDED SEND FOR BACKUP DIG IN DEFENSIVE POSITIONS MAN YOUR NECKBEARDS" - tgr
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raydeen
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It might depend on what you're running. I rarely have to reboot with XP but my wife who's on 2000 says she has to reboot all the time. Seems weird to me since they're both almost the same but there might be something just different enough between the two. And if you're on 98/Me, you'd definitely be rebooting a lot more.
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WayAbvPar
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XP SP2. I get reboots mnimum of twice a week.
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When speaking of the MMOG industry, the glass may be half full, but it's full of urine. HaemishM
Always wear clean underwear because you never know when a Tory Government is going to fuck you.- Ironwood
Libertarians make fun of everyone because they can't see beyond the event horizons of their own assholes Surlyboi
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HaemishM
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My AVG-fueled reboots happen very infrequently. Maybe once every few months? It doesn't happen enough to make me notice it.
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WayAbvPar
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I am being persecuted, I know it! Probably some goddamned Norton artifact.
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When speaking of the MMOG industry, the glass may be half full, but it's full of urine. HaemishM
Always wear clean underwear because you never know when a Tory Government is going to fuck you.- Ironwood
Libertarians make fun of everyone because they can't see beyond the event horizons of their own assholes Surlyboi
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raydeen
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In looking through the intarwebs, it seems one possible solution is to download an update and manually install it. After that the problem may be solved. Gonna have to try this on the wife's machine.
Edit: In doing some more digging, it appears to be a setting in the Control Center portion of AVG.
Go into the Control Center and set your Update Manager properties back to ....
Update immediately - Require confirmation from the user.
My wife's computer was set to restart after every update whether it needed it or not. Don't know how that happened.
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« Last Edit: December 04, 2007, 12:43:28 PM by raydeen »
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caladein
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My wife's computer was set to restart after every update whether it needed it or not. Don't know how that happened.
That's a relatively silly option to have at all. |
"Point being, they can't make everyone happy, so I hope they pick me." - Ingmar"OH MY GOD WE'RE SURROUNDED SEND FOR BACKUP DIG IN DEFENSIVE POSITIONS MAN YOUR NECKBEARDS" - tgr
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WayAbvPar
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Seriously.
Thanks! I will give that a go when I get home.
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When speaking of the MMOG industry, the glass may be half full, but it's full of urine. HaemishM
Always wear clean underwear because you never know when a Tory Government is going to fuck you.- Ironwood
Libertarians make fun of everyone because they can't see beyond the event horizons of their own assholes Surlyboi
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