[dba-Tech] free

John Bartow john at winhaven.net
Sat Oct 24 13:56:28 CDT 2009


What they may have been were items in AVG's quarantine or (unimportant)
traces of those items that AVG didn't remove. I've seen this happen in the
past with products that want to "prove" they are better than the
competition. Usually the free downloads that scan but don't remove until you
purchase the activation key. I think this is probably where the fake
anti-virus people got their idea from originally <grrr>. But actually AVG
has not been all that good over the past year. I no longer use it and have
replaced all of my client's AVG security with either Vipre or Antivir. 

Eventually time will tell if MS can provide an effective security product.
They couldn't with "Windows Defender" so my guess is no but I'd love to be
proven wrong.

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Max Wanadoo
Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 10:43 PM
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Don't know John, I just removed them.  If MS didn't know what they were then
that was good enough for me. Nothing untoward has happened, so....

Max


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of DJK (John)
Robinson
Sent: 23 October 2009 22:13
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] free

And were those three items *definitely* viruses, or false positives?  Did it
clean them?

John


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Max Wanadoo
Sent: 21 October 2009 17:15
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
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Hi Peter,
I have removed AVG Enterprise edition and installed the Security_Essentials
in their place on 3 machines.  On one
machine it found 3 items that AVG had never picked up.

So far, I am delighted with it.  You do have to uninstall other AV software
as part of the installation,  so to save
time, you should do that before you start installing it, otherwise you only
have to start over needlessly.

Time will tell, but for me, so far so good.

Max

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Peter Brawley
Sent: 21 October 2009 16:36
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] free

Max,

Thanks for posting this link. This review 
<http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/1324> says "even for 
free software, and from Microsoft, it's pretty weird." Another review 
<http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/software/352417/microsoft-security-essential
s> 
says it's OK but weak, and a third 
<http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/10/04/microsoft-security-essentials-rev
iew/> 
recommends it. I'm left to wonder if it adds significant functionality 
to what other free AV tools like AFG offer. Any ideas?

PB

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