Re: Avast! and AVG.
I have a Pentium 4 type PC that runs Windows 2000. It has behaved itself very well for several years and runs (or was running) Avast! A/V. One morning, Avast! said it is time to upgrade the definitions - fair enough. But when I tried to do that, it complained that "not enough space to complete update". (It's never reported that before). There is a copious amount of spare disk space on drive C; RAM has not changed: still 64M - and on test, it is O.K. Entire PC was checked for 'cookie junk', etc. and usual 'Net-imported rubbish: all clean.
Next step: remove Avast!; re-install from known-good backup. Result: no change.
Removed Avast! again; installed AVG (ver. 9.0.914). That's better, but AVG does produce 'false positives' - including stating that an AVG file is 'infected', reporting that the "digital signature is broken"! Ha!
A few other similar errors were reported on a full scan, but I was able to recognise those as 'false positives' - so I ignored them.
So no: AVG is not perfect (on this system, anyway). But it least it doesn't cause problems as Avast! did for some sudden and inexplicable reason.
Final remarks.
Yes, I am well aware that Windows 2000 is an old and superseded version of Windows and that there is a good case which can be made for upgrading to a more recent version of Windows: thank you. But the present installation meets my computing needs and, moreover, the fact that it uses Win 2k is not relevant to the scenario outlined above.
Al. / Feb. 4 //
I have a Pentium 4 type PC that runs Windows 2000. It has behaved itself very well for several years and runs (or was running) Avast! A/V. One morning, Avast! said it is time to upgrade the definitions - fair enough. But when I tried to do that, it complained that "not enough space to complete update". (It's never reported that before). There is a copious amount of spare disk space on drive C; RAM has not changed: still 64M - and on test, it is O.K. Entire PC was checked for 'cookie junk', etc. and usual 'Net-imported rubbish: all clean.
Next step: remove Avast!; re-install from known-good backup. Result: no change.
Removed Avast! again; installed AVG (ver. 9.0.914). That's better, but AVG does produce 'false positives' - including stating that an AVG file is 'infected', reporting that the "digital signature is broken"! Ha!
A few other similar errors were reported on a full scan, but I was able to recognise those as 'false positives' - so I ignored them.So no: AVG is not perfect (on this system, anyway). But it least it doesn't cause problems as Avast! did for some sudden and inexplicable reason.
Final remarks.
Yes, I am well aware that Windows 2000 is an old and superseded version of Windows and that there is a good case which can be made for upgrading to a more recent version of Windows: thank you. But the present installation meets my computing needs and, moreover, the fact that it uses Win 2k is not relevant to the scenario outlined above.
Al. / Feb. 4 //
