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secondary AV program badgolferman 07-09-2005
Posted by badgolferman on July 9, 2005, 5:51 pm
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http://www.av-comparatives.org/seiten/ergebnisse_2005_02.php

I am interested in deciphering this table at the AV Comparatives web
page. In particular I want a second AV which is free to back up the
eTrust EZ Antivirus that is the resident AV on my WXP Pro SP2 computer.

It seems to me Antivir is slightly superior to AVG and Avast and
slightly inferior to BitDefender in Total and Without other OS ratings.
However in the Windows viruses row it appears to be a dog.

I have used all four before and would lean toward BitDefender but it
loads lots of services that were a pain to disable. And each time I
ran a manual scan those services had to be shut down again.

Which free AV would you use as a backup for manual scans only?

--
No matter what happens someone will find a way to take it too seriously.


Posted by on July 9, 2005, 12:44 pm
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I've also got one up if you're interested.

http://www.download.com/3120-20_4-0.html?qt=vte&tg=dl-2001



Posted by Art on July 10, 2005, 12:19 am
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On 9 Jul 2005 12:44:47 -0700, idbeholda@gmail.com wrote:

>I've also got one up if you're interested.
>
>http://www.download.com/3120-20_4-0.html?qt=vte&tg=dl-2001

Couldn't get it to work without downloading a couple of OCX files
that don't necessarily exist on Win 2K. Then when I scanned the
VTE folder, it double false alarmed on its own uninstaller ...
uninst.exe. It thought it might be Generic.Infector or
BAT.Dropper.unknown.

When I tried to update it, it told me I had to manually extract the
diownload of the cab to the VTE folder!

Never have seen such a buggy and clumsy piece of software.

Art

http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg


Posted by on July 13, 2005, 8:47 am
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..... considering I didn't include them in there for bandwidth
concerns.... yeah, you would have to download them yourself. As for
the double false alarm, yes, I am fully aware of this. However, you
can manually adjust the heuristic scanning in heur.txt to avoid that
"problem". As for the update.... all it requires is a simple point,
right click, extract here method. Not exactly buggy.

Art wrote:
> On 9 Jul 2005 12:44:47 -0700, idbeholda@gmail.com wrote:
>
> >I've also got one up if you're interested.
> >
> >http://www.download.com/3120-20_4-0.html?qt=vte&tg=dl-2001
>
> Couldn't get it to work without downloading a couple of OCX files
> that don't necessarily exist on Win 2K. Then when I scanned the
> VTE folder, it double false alarmed on its own uninstaller ...
> uninst.exe. It thought it might be Generic.Infector or
> BAT.Dropper.unknown.
>
> When I tried to update it, it told me I had to manually extract the
> diownload of the cab to the VTE folder!
>
> Never have seen such a buggy and clumsy piece of software.
>
> Art
>
> http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg



Posted by David H. Lipman on July 13, 2005, 4:07 pm
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< snip >

| As for the update.... all it requires is a simple point,
| right click, extract here method. Not exactly buggy.
|

It would not be hard to program that at all.

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm




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