Re: AVG Anti-Virus for XP - Phantom Virus?

From: Ron Martell (ron.martell_at_gmail.com)
Date: 10/30/04 

Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 03:47:40 GMT

"JD" <jd@nada.com> wrote:

>Come on now ....
>Viruses do not load to the System Restore files until they enter the common
>files and are back up. Once the get there you are badly infected. . Do you
>wait till this happens ? JD
>

The virus in question as per the original post is only present in the
System Restore data.

One would presume that the machine was infected by a new virus during
the interval between the initial onslaught of that virus and the
availability of antivirus software updates to block that virus.

When the update was received the antivirus would have been able to
clean or remove the infected files, except for those backed up in the
System Restore data.

All repeat all antivirus programs are vulnerable to this type of
infection, and the frequency and timing of AVG's update releases
compares favorably with the rest of the field. They have occasionally
lagged with respect to a specific new virus, but so has every
antivirus company at one time or another.

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada 

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