Woody wrote:
> AVG is an antivirus program, not an antispyware program. You have to run
> both. While antispyware will detect some viruses and antivirus will detect
> some spyware they are different products.
>
>
The OP is referring to the AVG free anti spyware programme, not the AVG free
anti-virus programme.
Gaz
"cmsix" <cmsix@storiesonline.org> wrote in message
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>
> Is it fair to say that the best two single things you can do to protecte
> youself are turn off reading html email and use a browser that doesn't say
> Internet Explorer?
>
>
Move to an email provider that scans attachments for viruses before
depositing the emails into your inbox. My particular email provider scans
each item with two separate antivirus systems. My own computer then scans
all items in my inbox with AVG Anti-Virus, making three separate scans of
all inbox attachments before I can open them.
While no solution is bullet-proof, I have not had an email virus in two
years. Before I changed to my current email provider, AVG was neutralizing
email-borne viruses at a rate of at least one per week, sometimes more.
These days, email providers offer anti-virus scanning so routinely that one
should not even bother to consider using any email provider that doesn't
offer that protection.
"Nick Skrepetos" <nskrepetos@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>
> Gaz wrote:
>> "Andy" <andy@indigo.ie> wrote in message
>> news:ejokde$hui$1@news.datemas.de...
>> >I downloaded and update AVG Free Anti-Spyware and done a full disk scan
>> >(Scan all files) and it found spyware and I chose to delete all.
>> >Immediately afterwards I downloaded SpyBot Search & Destroy 1.4 and
>> >updated
>> >it and done a full scan and it came up with another load of spyware ones
>> >that weren't found on AVG anti spyware. they were Jupilites, Microsoft
>> >windows.activedesktop, Microsoft.Windows.Explorer,
>> >Microsoft.WindowsSecurityCenter.taskManager and SpySheriff.
>> >
>> > Now why can you not seem to entrust one anti spyware program to get rid
>> > of
>> > ALL spyware without having to check with another spyware program? - and
>> > why were these spyware not picked up by AVG anti spyware program in the
>> > first place?
>> >
>> > Does anyone know?
>>
>> I dont know if it picks up everything, but it seems more aggressive then
>> spybot and adaware, superantispyware.....
>>
>> Gaz
>
> Gaz, I am curious as to how you can assess the aggressiveness of the
> various anti-spyware products, can you elaborate? We often detect and
> remove infections that AVG and others don't even see, and they find
> things we don't find - I am not sure if you can say one product is more
> "aggressive" than another. I believe some of the products are falling
> behind a little on the "new" infections, but with the rate they are
> coming out, I don't think anyone can stay "on top" of all the
> infections.
>
> Nick Skrepetos
> SUPERAntiSpyware.com
> http://www.superantispyware.com
>
Doesn't the splash screen on SuperAntiSpyware make the claim that your
product removes ALL the spyware, not just the easy ones?
From: "jeremy" <jeremy@nospam.com>
| Doesn't the splash screen on SuperAntiSpyware make the claim that your
| product removes ALL the spyware, not just the easy ones?
|
Tough audience :-)
--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm
jeremy wrote:
> "Nick Skrepetos" <nskrepetos@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1163960368.451886.140000@f16g2000cwb.googlegr oups.com...
> >
> > Gaz wrote:
> >> "Andy" <andy@indigo.ie> wrote in message
> >> news:ejokde$hui$1@news.datemas.de...
> >> >I downloaded and update AVG Free Anti-Spyware and done a full disk scan
> >> >(Scan all files) and it found spyware and I chose to delete all.
> >> >Immediately afterwards I downloaded SpyBot Search & Destroy 1.4 and
> >> >updated
> >> >it and done a full scan and it came up with another load of spyware ones
> >> >that weren't found on AVG anti spyware. they were Jupilites, Microsoft
> >> >windows.activedesktop, Microsoft.Windows.Explorer,
> >> >Microsoft.WindowsSecurityCenter.taskManager and SpySheriff.
> >> >
> >> > Now why can you not seem to entrust one anti spyware program to get rid
> >> > of
> >> > ALL spyware without having to check with another spyware program? - and
> >> > why were these spyware not picked up by AVG anti spyware program in the
> >> > first place?
> >> >
> >> > Does anyone know?
> >>
> >> I dont know if it picks up everything, but it seems more aggressive then
> >> spybot and adaware, superantispyware.....
> >>
> >> Gaz
> >
> > Gaz, I am curious as to how you can assess the aggressiveness of the
> > various anti-spyware products, can you elaborate? We often detect and
> > remove infections that AVG and others don't even see, and they find
> > things we don't find - I am not sure if you can say one product is more
> > "aggressive" than another. I believe some of the products are falling
> > behind a little on the "new" infections, but with the rate they are
> > coming out, I don't think anyone can stay "on top" of all the
> > infections.
> >
> > Nick Skrepetos
> > SUPERAntiSpyware.com
> > http://www.superantispyware.com
> >
>
> Doesn't the splash screen on SuperAntiSpyware make the claim that your
> product removes ALL the spyware, not just the easy ones?
Yes, we do make that claim, and here is the reason we can make that
claim:
http://www.superantispyware.com/supe...e_service.html
Nick Skrepetos
SUPERAntiSpyware.com
http://www.superantispyware.com
"Nick Skrepetos" <nskrepetos@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>
>> >
>>
>> Doesn't the splash screen on SuperAntiSpyware make the claim that your
>> product removes ALL the spyware, not just the easy ones?
>
> Yes, we do make that claim, and here is the reason we can make that
> claim:
> http://www.superantispyware.com/supe...e_service.html
>
>
Given your statement that no single product can catch everything, wouldn't
you agree that your splash screen's message is just a tad "ambitious?"
"Nick Skrepetos" <nskrepetos@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>
> jeremy wrote:
>> "Nick Skrepetos" <nskrepetos@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:1163960368.451886.140000@f16g2000cwb.googlegr oups.com...
>> >
>> > Gaz wrote:
>> >> "Andy" <andy@indigo.ie> wrote in message
>> >> news:ejokde$hui$1@news.datemas.de...
>> >> >I downloaded and update AVG Free Anti-Spyware and done a full disk
>> >> >scan
>> >> >(Scan all files) and it found spyware and I chose to delete all.
>> >> >Immediately afterwards I downloaded SpyBot Search & Destroy 1.4 and
>> >> >updated
>> >> >it and done a full scan and it came up with another load of spyware
>> >> >ones
>> >> >that weren't found on AVG anti spyware. they were Jupilites,
>> >> >Microsoft
>> >> >windows.activedesktop, Microsoft.Windows.Explorer,
>> >> >Microsoft.WindowsSecurityCenter.taskManager and SpySheriff.
>> >> >
>> >> > Now why can you not seem to entrust one anti spyware program to get
>> >> > rid
>> >> > of
>> >> > ALL spyware without having to check with another spyware program? -
>> >> > and
>> >> > why were these spyware not picked up by AVG anti spyware program in
>> >> > the
>> >> > first place?
>> >> >
>> >> > Does anyone know?
>> >>
>> >> I dont know if it picks up everything, but it seems more aggressive
>> >> then
>> >> spybot and adaware, superantispyware.....
>> >>
>> >> Gaz
>> >
>> > Gaz, I am curious as to how you can assess the aggressiveness of the
>> > various anti-spyware products, can you elaborate? We often detect and
>> > remove infections that AVG and others don't even see, and they find
>> > things we don't find - I am not sure if you can say one product is more
>> > "aggressive" than another. I believe some of the products are falling
>> > behind a little on the "new" infections, but with the rate they are
>> > coming out, I don't think anyone can stay "on top" of all the
>> > infections.
>> >
>> > Nick Skrepetos
>> > SUPERAntiSpyware.com
>> > http://www.superantispyware.com
>> >
>>
>> Doesn't the splash screen on SuperAntiSpyware make the claim that your
>> product removes ALL the spyware, not just the easy ones?
>
> Yes, we do make that claim, and here is the reason we can make that
> claim:
> http://www.superantispyware.com/supe...e_service.html
>
> Nick Skrepetos
> SUPERAntiSpyware.com
> http://www.superantispyware.com
>
wowee, after using 3 different spyware removers (AVG AS, Spybot 1.4, Adaware
PE) and supposedly letting them clear all the spyware on my hard drive I ran
SuperAntiSpyware and guess what it found another 40 pieces of spyware!! - so
that is 4 different AS products I have used who said they have got rid of
all the spyware on my drive blimey if I download and use another spyware
cleaner is that gonna find even more spyware left???
jeremy wrote:
> "Nick Skrepetos" <nskrepetos@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1163972796.156803.146540@b28g2000cwb.googlegr oups.com...
> >
> >> >
> >>
> >> Doesn't the splash screen on SuperAntiSpyware make the claim that your
> >> product removes ALL the spyware, not just the easy ones?
> >
> > Yes, we do make that claim, and here is the reason we can make that
> > claim:
> > http://www.superantispyware.com/supe...e_service.html
> >
> >
>
>
> Given your statement that no single product can catch everything, wouldn't
> you agree that your splash screen's message is just a tad "ambitious?"
I stand behind any claims we make, because of the fact that our
diagnostic tools allow us to "see" just about everything - we have
cleaned up many infections that users didn't even know they had because
all tools reported a clean system.
The fact is that no product, even SUPERAntiSpyware, can catch
everything on a given day - but we will have a user run a diagnostic
and find any items we missed, and update our definitions to detect and
remove it. Therefor removing all the spyware, not just the easy ones.
Nick Skrepetos
SUPERAntiSpyware.com
http://www.superantispyware.com
Andy wrote:
>if I download and use another spyware
>cleaner is that gonna find even more spyware left???
Probably. Malware applications, which includes spyware and adware,
are increasing at an extremely fast pace, it's unlikely that any
anti-malware vendor could ever have all the necessary information to
remove them all. Even those that claim to remove malware "completely"
leave tell-tale signs that some other vendor might find.
David H. Lipman wrote:
> From: "jeremy" <jeremy@nospam.com>
>
>
> | Doesn't the splash screen on SuperAntiSpyware make the claim that your
> | product removes ALL the spyware, not just the easy ones?
> |
>
> Tough audience :-)
>
If I was worried about a "tough audience", I would be in the wrong
businessI appreciate all the comments and feedback - all it does it
keep helping refine our product into a better solutuion to combat
spyware and work smoothing for the user - everyone wins
Nick Skrepetos
SUPERAntiSpyware.com
http://www.superantispyware.com
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