AVG 8

September 10, 2008

AVG 8 seemed to have gone a bit Italian on me. The annoying information

bar at the bottom (which you can only hide after it opens with the

interface) was advertising some game called Shark Shooter and it was in

Italian!

It updated itself today in the normal way.

Has AVG itself become a victim of some spammer/hacker?

Chose to update again and was told no updates were available.

Closed it and re-opened and this time there is the normal option to

upgrade to Internet security.

September 10, 2008

Re: AVG 8

Seems unlikely. You may have had another pop-up notification run

that wasn't actually the AVG task bar status. However, that type of

thing is an indication of an unwanted process. A quick web search

doesn't match AVG/Shark Shooter offers, so I'd suspect your PC

has some Malware on it. Along with Windows Defender, I still have

confidence in SpyBot 1.6 as a good detection/removal tool. It may

be a good idea to run a couple of alternate on-line scans to verify

the PC is mostly clean. The only issue with Spybot 1.6 is that it will

by default install the Tea Timer function which I generally uncheck.

"Smirnoff" <someone@nospam.invalid> wrote in message

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> AVG 8 seemed to have gone a bit Italian on me. The annoying information

> bar at the bottom (which you can only hide after it opens with the

> interface) was advertising some game called Shark Shooter and it was in

> Italian!

>

> It updated itself today in the normal way.

>

> Has AVG itself become a victim of some spammer/hacker?

>

> Chose to update again and was told no updates were available.

>

> Closed it and re-opened and this time there is the normal option to

> upgrade to Internet security.

>

September 10, 2008

Re: AVG 8

the situation may have changed but, AVG 8.0 (a couple of months ago at

least), was detecting several registry keys inserted by Spybot S&D

installation, to thwart several specific strains of malware, ...I suppose

you could consider those "false positives."

Not wishing to fiddle around with that scenario, I discontinued using Spybot

S&D ...which was a little disappointing seeing as I donated a little money

to it !

regards, Richard

"R. McCarty" <PcEngWork-NoSpam_@mindspring.com> wrote in message

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> Seems unlikely. You may have had another pop-up notification run

> that wasn't actually the AVG task bar status. However, that type of

> thing is an indication of an unwanted process. A quick web search

> doesn't match AVG/Shark Shooter offers, so I'd suspect your PC

> has some Malware on it. Along with Windows Defender, I still have

> confidence in SpyBot 1.6 as a good detection/removal tool. It may

> be a good idea to run a couple of alternate on-line scans to verify

> the PC is mostly clean. The only issue with Spybot 1.6 is that it will

> by default install the Tea Timer function which I generally uncheck.

>

> "Smirnoff" <someone@nospam.invalid> wrote in message

> news:53465041-C647-4EAC-8E07-3BB5C63C7137@microsoft.com...

>> AVG 8 seemed to have gone a bit Italian on me. The annoying information

>> bar at the bottom (which you can only hide after it opens with the

>> interface) was advertising some game called Shark Shooter and it was in

>> Italian!

>>

>> It updated itself today in the normal way.

>>

>> Has AVG itself become a victim of some spammer/hacker?

>>

>> Chose to update again and was told no updates were available.

>>

>> Closed it and re-opened and this time there is the normal option to

>> upgrade to Internet security.

>>

>

September 10, 2008

Re: AVG 8

I had actually ceased using both AdAware and Spybot because of the

operation of their latest releases. I'm still not convinced that AdAware

is a good choice in it's latest configuration. Spybot still has issues ( I

don't like the download function as a separate window ), but it still

finds a lot of junk that users tend to end up with. I've tried a few other

products ( Super Antispyware...) and haven't come up with alternate

choices that give good coverage while not gumming up the PC. It's a

pain to deal with these "Anti-Cocktails" of various apps to keep a PC

Malware free.

"RJK" <notatospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message

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> the situation may have changed but, AVG 8.0 (a couple of months ago at

> least), was detecting several registry keys inserted by Spybot S&D

> installation, to thwart several specific strains of malware, ...I suppose

> you could consider those "false positives."

>

> Not wishing to fiddle around with that scenario, I discontinued using

> Spybot S&D ...which was a little disappointing seeing as I donated a

> little money to it !

>

> regards, Richard

>

> "R. McCarty" <PcEngWork-NoSpam_@mindspring.com> wrote in message

> news:%23vjv4$yEJHA.680@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

>> Seems unlikely. You may have had another pop-up notification run

>> that wasn't actually the AVG task bar status. However, that type of

>> thing is an indication of an unwanted process. A quick web search

>> doesn't match AVG/Shark Shooter offers, so I'd suspect your PC

>> has some Malware on it. Along with Windows Defender, I still have

>> confidence in SpyBot 1.6 as a good detection/removal tool. It may

>> be a good idea to run a couple of alternate on-line scans to verify

>> the PC is mostly clean. The only issue with Spybot 1.6 is that it will

>> by default install the Tea Timer function which I generally uncheck.

>>

>> "Smirnoff" <someone@nospam.invalid> wrote in message

>> news:53465041-C647-4EAC-8E07-3BB5C63C7137@microsoft.com...

>>> AVG 8 seemed to have gone a bit Italian on me. The annoying information

>>> bar at the bottom (which you can only hide after it opens with the

>>> interface) was advertising some game called Shark Shooter and it was in

>>> Italian!

>>>

>>> It updated itself today in the normal way.

>>>

>>> Has AVG itself become a victim of some spammer/hacker?

>>>

>>> Chose to update again and was told no updates were available.

>>>

>>> Closed it and re-opened and this time there is the normal option to

>>> upgrade to Internet security.

>>>

>>

>

September 10, 2008

Re: AVG 8

AVG updated itself approx 6.00am this morning.

As it was MS update time, I installed all updates and then updated and

ran:

SuperAntiSpyware, Ad-Aware, SpyBot S&D, SpywareBlaster (just updated

this), CA Yahoo Antispy, CCleaner, EasyCleaner.

Windows Defender ran at 11.00am.

None of these reported any problems.

This was not a separate pop up but appeared as normal in the AVG

Hide/Show Notification window.

Have reported this in AVG forum:

http://freeforum.avg.com/list.php?12

"R. McCarty" <PcEngWork-NoSpam_@mindspring.com> wrote in message

news:#vjv4$yEJHA.680@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

> Seems unlikely. You may have had another pop-up notification run

> that wasn't actually the AVG task bar status. However, that type of

> thing is an indication of an unwanted process. A quick web search

> doesn't match AVG/Shark Shooter offers, so I'd suspect your PC

> has some Malware on it. Along with Windows Defender, I still have

> confidence in SpyBot 1.6 as a good detection/removal tool. It may

> be a good idea to run a couple of alternate on-line scans to verify

> the PC is mostly clean. The only issue with Spybot 1.6 is that it

> will

> by default install the Tea Timer function which I generally uncheck.

>

> "Smirnoff" <someone@nospam.invalid> wrote in message

> news:53465041-C647-4EAC-8E07-3BB5C63C7137@microsoft.com...

>> AVG 8 seemed to have gone a bit Italian on me. The annoying

>> information bar at the bottom (which you can only hide after it opens

>> with the interface) was advertising some game called Shark Shooter

>> and it was in Italian!

>>

>> It updated itself today in the normal way.

>>

>> Has AVG itself become a victim of some spammer/hacker?

>>

>> Chose to update again and was told no updates were available.

>>

>> Closed it and re-opened and this time there is the normal option to

>> upgrade to Internet security.

>>

>

September 10, 2008

Re: AVG 8

Seems like you ran enough scans, good luck with it.

"Smirnoff" <someone@nospam.invalid> wrote in message

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> AVG updated itself approx 6.00am this morning.

>

> As it was MS update time, I installed all updates and then updated and

> ran:

>

> SuperAntiSpyware, Ad-Aware, SpyBot S&D, SpywareBlaster (just updated

> this), CA Yahoo Antispy, CCleaner, EasyCleaner.

>

> Windows Defender ran at 11.00am.

>

> None of these reported any problems.

>

> This was not a separate pop up but appeared as normal in the AVG Hide/Show

> Notification window.

>

> Have reported this in AVG forum:

>

> http://freeforum.avg.com/list.php?12

>

> "R. McCarty" <PcEngWork-NoSpam_@mindspring.com> wrote in message

> news:#vjv4$yEJHA.680@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...