Me too I put a video up so my clients could fix it http://www.calcpay.co.uk/vids/avgproblems.html
AVG basically ignored me when I reported the False Positive. Clients were very understanding, quite a few said this is the last straw with AVG, as opposed to CalcPay! Kind regards Andrew Stirling 01250 874580 http://www.calcpay.co.uk HMRC Accredited UK payroll program On 03/05/2011 17:08, Dan Covill wrote: > Got a call from my (one remaining) client yesterday afternoon. > > His newly installed AVG 2011 anti-virus had decided that his (VFP9) > order-processing system was a virus and moved it to the "vault"! > > I got on (via TightVNC) and determined the following: > 1. Yup, his .exe had indeed been moved to the quarantine vault and could > not be run. > 2. AVG 2011, in addition to the scheduled AV Scan and e-mail checking, > now has something called active protection, a firewall, and several > other layers of "protection". > 3. He installed 2011 Sunday, it ran the scheduled scan overnight and > found no problems. > 4. The "active protection" disabled his order-processing .exe at 4:30 pm > on Monday, WHILE HE WAS WORKING!! > > Well, we have backups of backups, so I decided to just copy the backup > of the .exe. "Access Denied"! Turns out the folder for that system is > now read-only. Can't copy or rename files in it! Can't turn off the > read-only either. Tried at least four times. > _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
