Removed AVG.
14 August 2004, 07:46 PM
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Removed AVG.
Hi Guys,
I know quite a few of you use AVG, and are quite happy with it, but I have had problems with it last couple of days and in the interests of community sharing, I will explain why.
After fresh install of XP, SP1 and critical updates installed. Freedom firewall (came with netgear ADSL firewall) and AVG installed (and updated).
Scan showed up a trojan horse psw.perfect.a,b, and c. It's a dormant trojan as far as my research shows, and it's not being sorted by anything, so not such a bad inditement to AVG.
However, it did make me try Avast as recomended by JC too see if that would recognise and remove it, which also failed, it did find these though, which AVG missed:
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8/17/2004 04:41:30 NICK-GR89M2EF1F\Nick 3712 Sign of "Win32:Kuang2" has been found in "C:\WINDOWS\system32\ActiveScan\imscan.dll" file.
8/17/2004 04:41:56 NICK-GR89M2EF1F\Nick 3712 Sign of "Win95:Matyas" has been found in "C:\WINDOWS\system32\ActiveScan\pav.sig" file.
8/17/2004 04:43:12 NICK-GR89M2EF1F\Nick 3712 Sign of "Win95:Matyas" has been found in "C:\WINDOWS\system32\pav.sig" file.
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Some people had issues removing it using the winxp un-installer via control panel, because of this, I used the AVG uninstaller, as far as I can tell there were no issues removing it this way.
Avas seems pretty good, apart from the American post voice, considering a pay-for such as mcafee...
I know quite a few of you use AVG, and are quite happy with it, but I have had problems with it last couple of days and in the interests of community sharing, I will explain why.
After fresh install of XP, SP1 and critical updates installed. Freedom firewall (came with netgear ADSL firewall) and AVG installed (and updated).
Scan showed up a trojan horse psw.perfect.a,b, and c. It's a dormant trojan as far as my research shows, and it's not being sorted by anything, so not such a bad inditement to AVG.
However, it did make me try Avast as recomended by JC too see if that would recognise and remove it, which also failed, it did find these though, which AVG missed:
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8/17/2004 04:41:30 NICK-GR89M2EF1F\Nick 3712 Sign of "Win32:Kuang2" has been found in "C:\WINDOWS\system32\ActiveScan\imscan.dll" file.
8/17/2004 04:41:56 NICK-GR89M2EF1F\Nick 3712 Sign of "Win95:Matyas" has been found in "C:\WINDOWS\system32\ActiveScan\pav.sig" file.
8/17/2004 04:43:12 NICK-GR89M2EF1F\Nick 3712 Sign of "Win95:Matyas" has been found in "C:\WINDOWS\system32\pav.sig" file.
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Some people had issues removing it using the winxp un-installer via control panel, because of this, I used the AVG uninstaller, as far as I can tell there were no issues removing it this way.
Avas seems pretty good, apart from the American post voice, considering a pay-for such as mcafee...
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