Lord Vetinari wrote:
> "Muad'Dib" <idaspud52@nospamhotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:4B481D77.6030508@nospamhotmail.com...
>> Lord Vetinari wrote:
>>> "Enkidu" <enkidu@nogodhere.net> wrote in message
>>> news:20100108180140.5606.49503.XPN@nogodhere.net...
>>>> David Wells wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Ever since I upgraded from Vista to Windows 7 I have lost the sound in
>>>>> Advast it no longer tell me that it has updated even though I see the
>>>>> pop up windows. Is there any way of getting the sound back without
>>>>> deinstalling it and then try a reinstall.
>>>> If I remember correctly (and I may not) there is a setting in Avast for
>>>> sounds on or off. Have you looked for that? Personally, I wanted my AV
>>>> to shut up and do it's job silently, unobtrusively, transparently.
>>> Right! Why on earth should what is essentially a utility, be noisy?
>>>
>>> Me, I dumped Avast!, when it let a virus run loose on my machine a few
>>> years ago. I plan to buy NOD32 (or whatever it's currently called) for
>>> my wife's computer, unless I turn it into a Linux box, too (*sigh*, my
>>> laptop has begun begging for Ubuntu....but not anything to do with the
>>> trolls).
>> Our corporate computers run Eset NOD32 and it has let several viruses get
>> through, one just today so I dunno.
>
> Oh well. I haven't had any since I started using NOD32, myself.
That's a good thing. I failed to mention that Avast let one through on
one of my personal computers while booted to XP. LOL Surprise! ..Which
is why I said it doesn't seem to matter which AV you have, ya can still
get hit. Same for AVG which I used for a long time and others. I RARELY
do get hit as I am careful, but no matter how careful one is these days,
you can get hit. However, part of the problem was that I had done the
Windows Seven Transformation Pack,(To test it), unchecked set home page
to Windows X Shrine which never works, home page got set to it anyway, I
forgot and a month or two later booted XP, opened the browser and BAM! I
got hit, his site had been compromised. Avast hadn't updated yet, sooo
partly my fault. Wound up restoring from back-ups, (XP,Vista, Win7 on
the same machine.), just to make dang sure all was clean.
>> I guess it really doesn't matter which AV you have, if you happen across
>> one that your AV doesn't know about yet, you STILL get hit. Scanning the
>> computer even in safe mode does not remove it,
>
> Sounds like a root kit. AV programs used to never claim to deal with them,
> and I'm not entirely sure that they all handle root kits as well as claimed.
Well, I worried about that too, but in the end it was hijack-ware. It
was a variant of Antivirus 2009. I downloaded Malwarebites but first ran
a small utility that kills any processes for Antivirus 2009 and then ran
the removal. Voila, that station is back to normal. I did install and
run Avast, and it found and removed a couple Trojans, but it couldn't
catch the hijack-ware. All is good now, but I have RE-educated the ones
that use that station. Yeah, right, like that does any good.. LOL
>> however I have scanned for the same one elsewhere and Avast caught it, so
>> that is what will happen tomorrow. Personally, I do ALL sensitive things
>> and Google searches etc on something other than Winders.
>
> Yup, that's one of my reasons for using Linux. I keep winders ago to run
> some stuff, but that may change.
Yes, I use them both for the best of BOTH worlds.
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