Just yesterday I found that my AVG software actually IS working
despite the fact that it hasn't found a virus on the hard drive since I got this new
one from Gateway as a replacement of the old one that came with the puter.
While AVG was on the old hard drive it picked up at least 5 different viruses
over the 6 to 8 months that I had it installed on that HD. Since I installed
it on the new hard drive, it's picked up nothing, so I have to wonder if it's
even working. It runs every day and picks up updates every day, too.
Anyway, about 6 years ago, when I was working at Mellon Bank I found a
bunch of floppies that they were throwing out, so I took them figuring I
could reformat them and use them for my own needs (I hate to see stuff that's
perfectly useable go to waste like that. I got a thousand or so video tapes that
I reuse, in the deal, too). I finally got around to checking a few of the
floppies last night. One had 4 files on it, mostly Word files. I did a
directory, and one by one, erased all of the files on it. When I got to the last one,
no sooner did I right click on it to delete it than the screen went blue and
orange and showed an AVG message saying that that file was a virus and it
asked what I wanted to do with it. I clicked on the "heal" button and it
immediately went back to the directory screen. I deleted the file and took out the
disc after I ran AVG on it. AVG said it was devoid of a virus. Should I have
deleted it first, or ran AVG on it first? I have to wonder if just deleteing
it would open it, somehow, onto my hard drive. The file was named something
like "icdb", I don't remember the extention. Hours later, after I got off line
I deleted all of my cookies, as I usually do after signing off, and saw a
bunch of files in the recycle bin labeled "icdb", or whatever that file name was.
AVG hasn't picked up any viruses since then, so I suppose I'm clean. It
caught it the first time, so it, theoretically, should've caught it later, as
well. Any suggestions?
Dale
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