Hi everyone,
Please, close this thread. AVG really has nothing to do with gaming, and
discussion of what antivirus is best is better discussed elsewhere.
perhaps Cara Quinn's otyssey list might be a better forum.
Thanks.
shaun everiss wrote:
tHERE IS SOME THINGS i DON'T LIKE WITH AVG.
iTS SHELL, SCANNERS AND THE REST OF ITS SCANNERS DO NOT MATCH.
IE IF i SCAN SOMETHING WITH THE SHIELD ON AND ITS DETECTED AS A VIRUS, THE
MAIN SCANNER WILL DETECT IT BUT THE SHELL SCANNER WILL NOT EVEN IF i SCAN THE
FILE.
mORE OVER EVERY FILE WITH 2 EXTENTIONS IE .BAT.TIF, .TXT.BAT, ETC WILL DETECT
AS A VIRUS.
gRANTED SOME OF THIS IS NEEDED.
BUT IF A FILE FROM LINUX CONVERT IS .LNX.TXT OR .TXT.LNX THEN IT AINT A VIRUS
IS IT.
aND OK IF A FILE SAYS .JPG.EXE THEN OK, UNLESS OFCAUSE YOU LAGITIMATELY MADE
IT THAT WAY.
i FOUND THE SHIELD A REAL PROBLEM WHEN USING LINUX.
i HAD TO CONVERT UNIX TEXT AND WINDOWS TEXT QUITE FREQUENTLY.
wHAT i'D DO WOULD TO NAME MY LINUX FILE AS THE NAME OF THE SYSTEM IE UNX UNIX
LNX LINUX, DOS ETC.
aT THE END i'D NAME THE FILES AS SUCH FILE.LNX.TXT
CONVERTED FILE FILENAME.DOS.TXT
aND THEN AFTER THAT i'D RENAME THE FILES FILENAME.LNX AND FILENAME .TXT ONCE
CONVERTED AND i HAD ENOUGH WITH THAT.
i'D GET THINGS LIKE AVG HAS FOUND CLICKER 5S TROGEN OR AVG HAS FOUND GENERIC
VIRUS32WIN.
sOMETIMES ITS NOT THE FAULT OF AVG, AS IN NVDA SOME VERSIONS OF PY2EXE ARE
KNOWN TO GENERATE VIRUS LIKE ALERTS BECAUSE OF HOW THEY ARE WRITEN.
hOWEVER i'VE ALWAYS DISABLED EVERYTHING IN AVG EXCEPT FOR THE UPDATERS, AND
VVOLT AND SHELL AS WELL AS EMAIL.
i LEAVE SHIELDS OFF BECAUSE THEY DON'T SEEM TO LIKE SOME THINGS.
ON A SIDE NOTE, AV SOFTWARE WILL DETECT KEYGENS, ETC AS VIRUSES.
aVG IN GENERAL HAS ISSUES BUT YOU CAN AVOID THEM, IT JUST INVOLVES YOU BEING
ON YOUR TOES.
oH AND SPEAKING TO PEOPLE ABOUT THE VIRUSES AVG DETECTS FINDS THEY DON'T EVEN
EXIST.
tRUE, AVG HAS FOUND SOME VIRUSES IN THE LAST 2 YEARS, AND KILLED THEM.
hOWEVER IT SOMETIMES PUTS GAME INSTALLS AS VIRUSES.
i'D STILL USE AVG, BUT AVOID THE SHIELD AND SCHEDULAR.
iF YOU MUST USE SHIELDS, PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT IT IS DOING
aLSO i NEVER LIKED AVG PRO MUCH.
Well if it wasn't crap to start with then it wouldn't have issues
with anything installed. does it still heal the same files over and
over and over? When you don't even have a virus? I could see it
having issues with downloaded stuff from the web like music or stuff,
but these games aren't made with viruses if they want to keep selling them.
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