It is good

[°°MS-Publisher°°]

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx

may even eradicate smelly UK things around here *HOPEFULLY*

 

[Mary Sauer]

Have you been testing it?
How 'ya been doin', David? I have some foul weather I could share with you.

 

[Miss Perspicacia Tick]

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx

may even eradicate smelly UK things around here *HOPEFULLY*

Well, gee, David, don't hold back - tell us how you *really* feel. Ed and I
love you too, by the way...

 

[Mike Koewler]

David,

I loved AVG, but Version 6 is not going to be supported after January
and V7 was troublesome for lots of people who tried it. I'm running
Avast! now and it seems to be decent. Won't know for sure until a virus
attack occurs.

Mike

 

[Jim]

David,

I loved AVG, but Version 6 is not going to be supported after January
and V7 was troublesome for lots of people who tried it. I'm running
Avast! now and it seems to be decent. Won't know for sure until a virus
attack occurs.

FWIW, I've been running version 7 since it came out, and it seems to
be working as promised.


Blessed be, for sure...

 

[Mike Koewler]

Jim,

What OS? Most of the complaints were from people running XP. It wasn't
scanning incoming messages or stamping outgoing messages as being virus
free.

Mike

 

[JoAnn Paules]

Ditto

 

[DavidF]

Mike, If you are running Windows XP built-in firewall (Security Center),
Kerio Personal Firewall or the Zone Alarm Pro firewall you need to change
some of the firewall settings, and stamping outgoing messages is optional.
Download the Installation guide at the bottom of this page for more
information:

http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/

DavidF

 

[°°MS-Publisher°°]

Mary I had heard the weather was real lousy your way.
Our so called summer is more like spring and very mild with cool nights.
Has been like that for over three weeks. Summer started off with a blast
then went to this mild spring weather and so far stayed like that. Mind you
I am not complaining it is just gorgeous.

Mary no I was not testing it. Came across it and tried it and worked well
and found spyware others did not.
Is simple and functional - what more can you want.

 

[Mike Koewler]

David,

I forwarded your message to my buddy who told me about the problems.
Here is what he replied:

That advice is all well and good, but it doesn't hold up in the real
world. Most people that were complaining, like myself, either followed
the instructions to the letter, did not use the MS firewall (I'm running
SP1), changed their firewall setting in accordance to the install
procedure and all had activated the right options. There were other
settings that were discussed that worked for a few, like changing some
email settings, but for the most part, it seemed as if 90% of the users
had these problems. I haven't been back on the AVG boards since I
switched, but I bet if you go there, they still are having trouble
running properly. There are those that ran straight up from the get-go,
so you go figure...

Mike

 

[Miss Perspicacia Tick]

David,

I forwarded your message to my buddy who told me about the problems.
Here is what he replied:

That advice is all well and good, but it doesn't hold up in the real
world. Most people that were complaining, like myself, either
followed the instructions to the letter, did not use the MS firewall
(I'm running SP1), changed their firewall setting in accordance to
the install procedure and all had activated the right options. There
were other settings that were discussed that worked for a few, like
changing some email settings, but for the most part, it seemed as if
90% of the users had these problems. I haven't been back on the AVG
boards since I switched, but I bet if you go there, they still are
having trouble running properly. There are those that ran straight
up from the get-go, so you go figure...

Mike

I am using AVG7 (a paid-for three-year subscription) and I've had no
problems whatsoever. It lives with ZA quite nicely, thank you.

 

[Ed Bennett]

What OS? Most of the complaints were from people running XP. It wasn't
scanning incoming messages or stamping outgoing messages as being
virus free.

I've noticed that sometimes (after the machine has not rebooted for a while)
the scanner fails to engage on a new mail connection.

I only notice because I check some email accounts via telnet, and instead of
a standard welcome message, I get "AVG Email Scanner" when the connection is
intercepted by AVG

 

[DavidF]

Mike,

Well, I guess I am one of lucky ones as I run AVG7 with ZoneAlarm on a
Win98se, a WinME and a WinXPpro machine, so as your friend said...go figure.

DavidF

 

[DavidF]

Mike, Let me add that in the last week or so I downloaded a large update of
many of the AVG modules. Perhaps Grisoft has made some changes in AVG7 that
would address your friend's issues.

DavidF

 

[Jim]

Jim,

What OS? Most of the complaints were from people running XP. It wasn't
scanning incoming messages or stamping outgoing messages as being virus
free.

Mike

I'm running Windows XP, Home Edition with SP2.


Blessed be, for sure...

 

[Jim]

Mike, If you are running Windows XP built-in firewall (Security Center),
Kerio Personal Firewall or the Zone Alarm Pro firewall you need to change
some of the firewall settings, and stamping outgoing messages is optional.

....and I'm running behind both the Windows firewall and ZoneAlarm Pro
with no problems. Hmm. I guess YMMV!

Blessed be, for sure...

 

[Ed Bennett]

Well, I guess I am one of lucky ones as I run AVG7 with ZoneAlarm on a
Win98se, a WinME and a WinXPpro machine, so as your friend said...go
figure.

AVG Free 6 would run on Windows Server 2003.
AVG Free 7 will not, last time I heard.

I guess Grisoft wanted to stop people using it for free on a commercial
server.
The fact that people use WS2k3 as a desktop OS doesn't seem to mean a lot to
them.