Grisoft AVG wants to remove your keygens

**Appzalien** · 08-22-2007, 01:14 AM

I have been an AVG fanboy for over 6 years now and have recommended them to anyone who would listen, but last month I changed my mind, and now I tell everyone to uninstall them and find something new.

It all started one morning, you see... I run my pc 24/7 and my AV starts scanning my PC at 3:00am and is usually finished when I get up, and every morning I check my quarrantine to see if anything I collected from the previous day was infected. I do check things as they come in but this is a backup check and of course there are always new definitions to run.

This particular morning I was suprised to find about 5 keygens, all by BRD in my quarrantine. I was suspicious because they are older and have been scanned time and again, so I scanned them with A-Squared free and they came up clean so I bundled all the apps together and put there keys in a pass protected rar to prevent further AVG harrasment. A few days went by and there are several new keys in quarrantine, this time all of them by ZWT and after scanning with A-Squared I got mad because now I know whats going on. Grisoft is targeting keygens on my PC and tagging them as having trojans when they don't and hoping I won't notice so when the quarrantine time is up they will be deleted.

Next was NEO then NoPE and others as well, but from that point on I can't tell you who was next because I uninstalled AVG and installed a new anti-virus. I will probably never go back to using Grisoft software, I can never trust them again to have the run of my PC. What their doing is both deceptive and criminal in away. A keygen is what is called riskware, they have been known to be infected, but I don't need big brother snooping around my machine telling me what I can and can't do.

So you AVG users beware, you have been warned. Have you looked in your quarrantine lately? Grisoft won't put up a flag to warn you, its quarrantine only lasts 30 days and it starts deleting stuff, its about to ruin your day.

**Hairbautt** · 08-22-2007, 02:16 AM

Is this a personal experience? You didn't provide a source, but I'm all for a discussion if there are any other AVG users out there.

**abu_has_the_power** · 08-22-2007, 02:24 AM

nod32 is the ONLY way to go

**sear** · 08-22-2007, 03:02 AM

Agreed, screw AVG I had the anti virus about a year ago and it missed virus/malware which nuked my pc in the end I had to reformat and lost a lot of stuff. needless to say I won't be going back to Grisoft. Nod32 ftw

**ulun64** · 08-22-2007, 03:06 AM

NOD32 is best. I used to like AVG but their protection is weak.

**Yoga** · 08-22-2007, 05:36 AM

I remember doing a trend micro online scan, and it labeled the crack I applied to nod32 as malicious.

**TheGeneral** · 08-22-2007, 06:19 AM

AVG been doing the same to my keygens, but other than that i find its okay as a virus scaner + itz leagaly free so yea...

**raspberry1331** · 08-22-2007, 08:29 AM

I can also confirm this about the keygens, it already did this to me a year ago when i quitted using it. its protection is also weak, i got a virus or two with AVG. avast seems to be better, and it's also free.

one more thing came into my mind: my parents are still using AVG, and yesterday it found trojans in a cygwin dll, hilarious. so AVG free seems to become worse and worse.

**aktiv8** · 08-22-2007, 12:18 PM

AVG is still good, the keygen thing as been going on for longer than I can remember, but common sence says look at it with something else and trust your instincts almost...

As for the comment about finding a trojan in cygwin dll the reason it finds a "trojan" is from the heuristics I would expect. AVG does have one of the better heuristic scanners around so you will (like with any AV) get false positives. All I know is in years of using AVG I've NEVER had a viral infection

What everyone needs to remember overall is that there is NO *best* anti virus. Some pick things up other miss and so on - its depends on the development team behind it and how quickly the can get the viruses etc to analyse and therefore thwart within their AV.

I do recommend AVG for free but anyone who wants to pay for a good all round AV you cannot go far wrong with NOD32, but again it's a matter of opinion...