TSGL: AVG Free AV vs. Avast AV ???

[Don Penlington]

H. Davis wrote:
>it's getting a little crowded over here in confusionland now
>that you've joined us.>>


Joined you????  I've never left it! I was the original inhabitant.

<<when I installed some AV and AS software and ran scans - -----clean as a 
whistle .....I'm not sure what to conclude from this.>>

You confirm what I've always believed---if you have a good ISP with proper 
antivirus and spam filters activated, you don't need any anti-virus 
software. Often these filters aren't set by default, and people don't 
always know they have to enable them.

I know several knowledgeable people who don't run a-v software at all. In 
its monthly newsletter my ISP always tells me that it's kept around 40-50 
viruses from reaching my email box each month.

In some 12 years of computing, I think I've only admitted 1 virus. And I 
wouldn't have even known until a regular scan revealed it---I suspect it 
was a false alarm. Sure, I've had a few alarms when downloading dubious 
stuff, but always in plenty of time to reject the offending material before 
activating it.

It's always a good idea to actively run an a-v scan on most things you 
download---the scan option should normally be in the file's right-click 
menu.  Don't just rely on your a-v to passively check everything as it 
downloads. If you use a good download manager, it should be set to activate 
your a-v software to scan the file on completion of each download.

Don Penlington




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