Which Anti Virus?
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Strange. I've never had any of the problems you mentioned. It's never corrupted email for me, and I've been running it for over a year now. Have you tried reinstalling it? Not sure why anyone would vote you a 1 for that... :sigh:
Ryan
"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"
Ryan Binns wrote:
Have you tried reinstalling it?
Yep. I downloaded it again too incase I somehow managed to get some dodgy install that someone had been playing with. Perhaps it is something else on my machine that is messing with it but considering that all I installed before I installed AVG was Visual Studio, Office and Firefox I don't see what it could be - it was a clean install of Windows XP Pro SP 2. Regards, Brian Dela :-) Blog^ Co-author of The Outlook Answer Book... Go on, order^ it today!
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Ryan Binns wrote:
Have you tried reinstalling it?
Yep. I downloaded it again too incase I somehow managed to get some dodgy install that someone had been playing with. Perhaps it is something else on my machine that is messing with it but considering that all I installed before I installed AVG was Visual Studio, Office and Firefox I don't see what it could be - it was a clean install of Windows XP Pro SP 2. Regards, Brian Dela :-) Blog^ Co-author of The Outlook Answer Book... Go on, order^ it today!
Brian Delahunty wrote:
Perhaps it is something else on my machine that is messing with it but considering that all I installed before I installed AVG was Visual Studio, Office and Firefox I don't see what it could be - it was a clean install of Windows XP Pro SP 2.
That's almost the same configuration as my machine, except I don't have Office. I don't see how that could affect it though. Are you using Outlook for email? I'm using Thunderbird without problems. I can't remember if I used AVG while I was still using Outlook or not.
Ryan
"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"
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I use AVG. It works really well and isn't ridiculously bloated like some others. The updates literally take a couple of seconds on my machine. I've never had any problems with it. Thoroughly recommended! :)
Ryan
"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"
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No, the free version
Ryan
"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"
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No, the free version
Ryan
"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"
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Am I the only person on the planet that thinks AVG is a pile of crap. It continually hangs and/or crashes when scanning incoming mail, the email proxy it uses even corrupts mail for me sometimes. Sure, it's light when you are talking about scanning the hard drives and real-time protection but I'm much more concerned about having safe email scanning that works and AVG doesn’t do that IMHO - crashes half the time when scanning email... anybody else have this problem? Regards, Brian Dela :-) Blog^ Co-author of The Outlook Answer Book... Go on, order^ it today!
I've used it for years, but on the recent version I disabled the auto email checking because it was far too slow.
"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it." - Ellen Goodman
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I am in a dillema. I just bought a Lenovo Notebook but don't know which Anti Virus to use. Norton is out of the question coz I really hate it. I believe AVG is a good choice as its free and good too. Do you all have any suggestions? Any good lightweight Antivirus with a pricetag that doesn't burn a hole in my pocket? :) --- With best regards, A Manchester United Fan The Genius of a true fool is that he can mess up a foolproof plan!
I'm using BitDefender on 3 machines and think it is fantastic. I recommend giving it a go. Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash 24/04/2004
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Am I the only person on the planet that thinks AVG is a pile of crap. It continually hangs and/or crashes when scanning incoming mail, the email proxy it uses even corrupts mail for me sometimes. Sure, it's light when you are talking about scanning the hard drives and real-time protection but I'm much more concerned about having safe email scanning that works and AVG doesn’t do that IMHO - crashes half the time when scanning email... anybody else have this problem? Regards, Brian Dela :-) Blog^ Co-author of The Outlook Answer Book... Go on, order^ it today!
Well, the SpamKiller from McAfee hoses my mail or system about once a month, so I guess I DO have the same problem, just not with the same software. Now my computer constantly tries to retrieve e-mail from the server at 127.0.0.1 ! Go figure... I've seen better runs in my shorts! - Patches O'Houlihan
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I am in a dillema. I just bought a Lenovo Notebook but don't know which Anti Virus to use. Norton is out of the question coz I really hate it. I believe AVG is a good choice as its free and good too. Do you all have any suggestions? Any good lightweight Antivirus with a pricetag that doesn't burn a hole in my pocket? :) --- With best regards, A Manchester United Fan The Genius of a true fool is that he can mess up a foolproof plan!
In order of preference: McAfee AVG ZoneLabs Panda BitDefender Product of Last Resort -> Norton Actually the most important is to put and AV on. Next pick a spyware or two. Being sumwhat paranoid, I actually use both McAfee and ZoneLabs products, and use two spyware, but my job takes me to many sites of risk. Cheers
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In order of preference: McAfee AVG ZoneLabs Panda BitDefender Product of Last Resort -> Norton Actually the most important is to put and AV on. Next pick a spyware or two. Being sumwhat paranoid, I actually use both McAfee and ZoneLabs products, and use two spyware, but my job takes me to many sites of risk. Cheers
JCParker wrote:
McAfee AVG ZoneLabs Panda BitDefender Product of Last Resort -> Norton
You'd rate Panda above Norton? At least Norton allows your PC to work! Last time I tried to use Panda (clean machine, totally fine otherwise) it suffered RPC Server Failures whenever you tried to log on to Windows! One jolly trip into safe mode later to remove Panda and *tada* no more RPC failure
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JCParker wrote:
McAfee AVG ZoneLabs Panda BitDefender Product of Last Resort -> Norton
You'd rate Panda above Norton? At least Norton allows your PC to work! Last time I tried to use Panda (clean machine, totally fine otherwise) it suffered RPC Server Failures whenever you tried to log on to Windows! One jolly trip into safe mode later to remove Panda and *tada* no more RPC failure