Guest Dan Posted June 20, 2008 Posted June 20, 2008 I removed AVG and went with Avast antivirus and it is working well. The last I heard that AVG 7.5 will be ending in a few days and version 8 is not compatible with Windows 98 Second Edition. I tried version 8 on my computer on the Windows XP Pro. side of my multi-boot computer and it was terrible because it flagged things that were not a problem and just related to SpywareBlaster which had protected against the baddies and AVG 8 removed the protection for 197 items. My dad tried it on his computer and it flagged a legitimate file as a trojan. He is also now using Avast. I am also giving Ubantu Linux a try on my computer a try within the XP Pro. side of the Windows environment and so I now have a tri-boot computer.
Guest PA Bear [MS MVP] Posted June 20, 2008 Posted June 20, 2008 Re: Avast and AVG for Windows > ...I tried version 8 on my computer > on the Windows XP Pro. side of my multi-boot computer and it was terrible > because it flagged things that were not a problem and just related to > SpywareBlaster which had protected against the baddies and AVG 8 removed > the > protection for 197 items. This is a known-behavior and (to Grisoft's way of thinking) an incomptibility with AVG v8.0; cf. http://free.grisoft.com/ww.faq.num-1319. There are several workarounds to avoid this. -- ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002 AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net DTS-L http://dts-l.net/ Dan wrote: > I removed AVG and went with Avast antivirus and it is working well. The > last I heard that AVG 7.5 will be ending in a few days and version 8 is > not > compatible with Windows 98 Second Edition. I tried version 8 on my > computer > on the Windows XP Pro. side of my multi-boot computer and it was terrible > because it flagged things that were not a problem and just related to > SpywareBlaster which had protected against the baddies and AVG 8 removed > the > protection for 197 items. My dad tried it on his computer and it flagged > a > legitimate file as a trojan. He is also now using Avast. > > I am also giving Ubantu Linux a try on my computer a try within the XP > Pro. > side of the Windows environment and so I now have a tri-boot computer.
Guest Dan Posted June 21, 2008 Posted June 21, 2008 Re: Avast and AVG for Windows Thank you for your response, Robear. AVG 7.5 worked fine for me and since AVG 8 is flawed, imo and will not work with Windows 98 Second Edition then I am glad to have an alternative with Avast for Windows 98 SE and Windows XP Pro. "PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote: > > ...I tried version 8 on my computer > > on the Windows XP Pro. side of my multi-boot computer and it was terrible > > because it flagged things that were not a problem and just related to > > SpywareBlaster which had protected against the baddies and AVG 8 removed > > the > > protection for 197 items. > > This is a known-behavior and (to Grisoft's way of thinking) an > incomptibility with AVG v8.0; cf. http://free.grisoft.com/ww.faq.num-1319. > There are several workarounds to avoid this. > -- > ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) > MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002 > AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net > DTS-L http://dts-l.net/ > > > Dan wrote: > > I removed AVG and went with Avast antivirus and it is working well. The > > last I heard that AVG 7.5 will be ending in a few days and version 8 is > > not > > compatible with Windows 98 Second Edition. I tried version 8 on my > > computer > > on the Windows XP Pro. side of my multi-boot computer and it was terrible > > because it flagged things that were not a problem and just related to > > SpywareBlaster which had protected against the baddies and AVG 8 removed > > the > > protection for 197 items. My dad tried it on his computer and it flagged > > a > > legitimate file as a trojan. He is also now using Avast. > > > > I am also giving Ubantu Linux a try on my computer a try within the XP > > Pro. > > side of the Windows environment and so I now have a tri-boot computer. > >
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