Re: AVG 7.5?

Trend CSM Anti-Spyware also identifies cookies as malware, and ups the count accordingly. Some of my users must (almost) get annoyed, as it strips their cookies nightly ;-). But it's a selectable item, you can instruct it to ignore cookies.

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Les Connor [SBS MVP]


"Costas" <cpstechgroup@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:8D622C12-3B06-44A5-A5C3-F58FEBBC72AA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I believe that AVG is identifying cookies as potential spyware and it reports them on every scan. Other programs don't report the cookies and it seems that AVG is susceptible to viruses, but I don't think that's the case. When I go through the scan reports, every single one of them shows: "Threads found" and every item listed are cookies.


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Costas


"Leythos" <void@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:MPG.21d8bd3b58d2a40498990f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In article <768B62F9-B3A8-40CA-BFA1-B2727EF7685D@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
kw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
It seems to me there's been a lot of good kudos for AVG of late. My
experience with them is with their free version that I encourage my family
and friends to use on their personal PC's, and it seems to run great.

My experience with Sororities using AVG is that the users running AVG
are the only ones being compromised. The ones running Symantec Corp,
Norton products, McAfee, CA, Panda, etc... None of them report problems
related to Malware, only the AVG users - this has been the case for 3
years in a row, over 200 users between houses, about 130 with AVG.

All AVG installs were/are current, scan daily, update daily.

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