[dba-Tech] The latest AVG anti-virus

Jon Tydda jon at tydda.plus.com
Sun Jan 28 07:01:26 CST 2007


Firewalls won't stop spyware. Firewalls are designed to stop people gaining
active connections to your pc. Spyware (Which includes Malware - things
designed to make your pc stop working) is just small bits of software that
are loaded from dodgy websites when you visit them. When I say that Spybot
doesn't find anything, I'm thinking it's because I keep their blocked list
up to date. Well worth doing that IMO.

I take it you removed those 153 files? Is the PC faster now? My personal
record for Spyware removal is over 300 separate files, although I did have
one at work the other day with over 3000 infected files, although that was
all from one trojan. I seriously thought aboput fixing that one with a
magnet...


Jon

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Susan Harkins
Sent: 28 January 2007 01:09
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] The latest AVG anti-virus

Well, I stopped the scan at 153 spyware files.  :( What a racket. I'm
curious -- I'm using Windows firewall. I really didn't expect to have this
level of infection. 

Susan H. 

I use those too, Ad-Aware finds stuff all the time, Spybot hasn't found
anything in months. The version of Zonealarm I have has AS in it, and is
pretty good too.


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