Sayonara Symantec, Hello AVG!
I was hit by a Trojan.Dropper over the weekend. Somehow, a file I downloaded from the Ares P2P network slipped past my Norton AntiVirus. The trojan horse was designed to make use of the Symantec email proxy to send out spam. Thankfully, my email proxy was not configured, as I switched to using Gmail fulltime in 2005.
Norton couldn't detect this trojan horse, even after a full scan (2 hours, million+ files). Trend Micro's Housecall couldn't detect it either. I finally settled on the free edition of AVG, which managed to detect the infected files, and saved the day!
Tip: Install at least 2 different anti-virus programs on your machine. Configure one to be your primary / default for auto-protect and emails. It may come in handy in situations such as these where a second opinion (scan) is required.
Norton couldn't detect this trojan horse, even after a full scan (2 hours, million+ files). Trend Micro's Housecall couldn't detect it either. I finally settled on the free edition of AVG, which managed to detect the infected files, and saved the day!
Tip: Install at least 2 different anti-virus programs on your machine. Configure one to be your primary / default for auto-protect and emails. It may come in handy in situations such as these where a second opinion (scan) is required.
Labels: user experience
posted by Praveen at
9:25 AM
6 Comments:
Hmmm you know AVG is no longer the "in" thing.... try AVIRA for a change it's really much better than AVG and it's free too!
Bee, thanks for the heads up! For everyone's benefit, you can point to Avira's download page for more info.
hmm..this is all Greek to me..at the risk of sounding like a dingdong, how do i install 2 softwares and make one primary n the other secondary?
And once you've set up those 2 anti-virus apps, bask in the the temporary state of being virus-free while you save money for a Mac!
Y: just mess with the settings. In my case, I turned off all the auto-protect and email scanning options on Norton, and set AVG to do all that instead.
(Maybe this is Greek after all!)
Kris: Thank you for the Windows/PC-bashing -- didn't see that coming with the post! LOL =)
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