After looking into it, I see that AVG uses virus signatures as well as
Heuristic Analysis. All definitions are up to date and have been updated
daily and scans done daily since computer was new.
Richard P.
Mike Sloane wrote:
To my knowledge, Panda is heuristic, but AVG depends on daily
In going back and checking the logs I saw that yesterday, AVG also found
what it says was a Trojan horse in:
C:\Program Files\music_now\inetchk.exe and deleted it. I was able to
search and see that MusicNow is part of AOL (I never installed AOL but
is probably sitting on the computer as part of
This morning, AVG scan found what it says is a trojan horse downloader.
When I asked for more details, it said it didn't exist in its database.
I went ahead and healed it but wonder what it is and whether or not it
is a false positive.
Details:
AVG Free Edition Resident Shield
Threat
To my knowledge, Panda is heuristic, but AVG depends on daily downloads
of specific virus signatures. If your AVG definitions are out of date,
it will not detect a brand new offender, whereas Panda's design (claims
to) detect viruses by their behavior.
Mike
Richard P. wrote:
This morning,
Run all the free online virus checkers you can find.
http://www.google.com/search?source=ighl=enrlz=q=free+online+virus
Call me paranoid, but at least once I've just reinstalled Windows rather
than deal with possible trojans. I do a lot of important stuff from this
machine.
