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Former Member
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I've been an Avast tester for a while... it's the de-facto free-AV checker for me [not the top of the top rated per the loud magazine testers, but never a contamination either for long as I can remember, so what's top?]. And silly for excluding disc-scanning, memory scanning continues... that I'd never allow to be switched off. See only a warning for approving a new WCG science app version at times and the daily balloon to inform that the sigs were updated, but beyond that version 7 I'm on now [7.0.4166], is a boring set-and-forget security tool, which is how it should be [Got the auto-sandbox function on BTW, just in case]
BTW, did anyone notice... Friday the Windows Defender signature update file was a whopping 18.2MB... normally it's only a few hundred Kb. What was cooking there, we'll never learn, lest digging for it. |
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Former Member
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I thought it was 1.8 MB Friday. Still enormous by ordinary standards.
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joeperry39@gmail.com
Advanced Cruncher USA Joined: Nov 22, 2006 Post Count: 140 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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BTW, did anyone notice... Friday the Windows Defender signature update file was a whopping 18.2MB... normally it's only a few hundred Kb. What was cooking there, we'll never learn, lest digging for it. Perhaps it is a ''new'' release number. Those do occur on occasion and are much larger than the normal weekly or every-other-day Defender updates. You can check your MS update log and see if that is the case. BTW, I've been using Avira for quite some time now -- no problems and it seems to catch the ''bad stuff'' that tries to sneak in every now & again. I run a scan every night and several times a month it will catch some ''stuff'' that needs to be sent to quarantine. I've been very happy with Avira for the several years I have used it on all of my computers.  "Everything in moderation, including moderation" -- Mark Twain |
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rilian
Veteran Cruncher Ukraine - we rule! Joined: Jun 17, 2007 Post Count: 1453 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Avast is pretty great and lightweight also pretty useless :) once it did not find quite an old virus so we had to reinstall OS across all network last time before i switched to Macos, i used doctor web. dunno if it is free at the moment but it helped me ---------------------------------------- [Edit 1 times, last edit by rilian at Oct 21, 2012 10:32:20 PM] |
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mikey
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I've been an Avast tester for a while... it's the de-facto free-AV checker for me [not the top of the top rated per the loud magazine testers, but never a contamination either for long as I can remember, so what's top?]. Often the one that is top this time around is not the top the next time around, the top group usually stays the same though from year to year. If one were to be always chasing the top it could get expensive or a pain in the neck with the installing and uninstalling every time a new list comes out. What I do is use one and then periodically check with another one just to make sure I am still safe. MOST of my machines are Boinc only machines, but the ones that aren't get checked about once every 6 months by at least one of the others in the top group. So far I am safe, knocking on wood!!!   |
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dskagcommunity
Senior Cruncher Austria Joined: May 10, 2011 Post Count: 219 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I set AVG to exclude the BOINC directorys. So no problems until today.
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