Grisoft AVG wants to remove your keygens

[Appzalien]

Yes this is from personal experience. I would have put up with it and kept Grisoft if it had accepted my input to ignore the file when it was tagging uninfected files, but I literally had to uninstall the darn thing to do anything with the files, it would'nt let me even scan them with something else unless I pulled the plug on their software. It became such a pain, finding the same files every morning or having to uninstall AVG so I could scan and pass protect the files it was finding I gave up and uninstalled them permanently.

Over a period of around 1 month I had to double check 65 keygens and all came up clean. Around 50 of them had been on my PC for over a year, some of them I had already used. At first I blamed it on heuristics so I turned it off and it still kept quarrantining keys.

I also belong to the AVG forum but everytime I try to post something about this it gets removed. The moderators claim to be just users who care but it seems more like their users who care about the corporation, not you.

[Hairbautt]

Cool. That's a lotta godamn keygens tho'

[docv]

used to use avg. I use avast now which is also free.

Been working fine so far.

[betty2007]

NOD32 works fine for me.

[Appzalien]

I just found out that BitDefender has a new free version, so I loaded it up and its sweet. You give it an e-mail address and reactivate with a new key every 14 months.

[randome]

AVG did it to me too - I had a virus scare, and started AVG while getting a hold of Norton. It flagged the keygen as a trojan, which got me a bit worried - it does kind of make sense to seed trojans with antivirus products, as you know the users won't be protected yet!

That's one less apparent malware item I have to worry about, thanks for the heads up.

[tmo85]

Does AVG anti spyware do the same? i havnt had any problems with AVG, id be sorry to see the free anti spyware scan go.


That bit defender free virus scan, how well does it work? better than avarst? I love Nod 32 im on the trial at the moment.

[Snee]

Both AVG and KAV have had a tendency to remove keygens when I've used them, I've noticed that sort of thing for years now. It doesn't seem as if Avast, Panda or Symantech Pro does it, from what I can remember seeing.

Maybe some AV-manufacturers, or a few people working for them, make a bit of cash on the side, adding a keygen or crack to the virus definitions now and then. Pretty simple to sneak that sort of thing in, I reckon.

[zapjb]

I just found out that BitDefender has a new free version, so I loaded it up and its sweet. You give it an e-mail address and reactivate with a new key every 14 months.

http://www.bitdefender.com/PRODUCT-1...e-Edition.html
....BitDefender Free Edition is an on-demand virus scanner, which is best used in a system recovery or forensics role. If you are on an "always-on" Internet connection, we strongly advise you to consider using a more complex antivirus solution....


No resident protection.

[Appzalien]

I don't know about that. On Demand means you have to manually run it and BitDefender free has schedualing so you can run any of it several type scans any time and every day if you want, unattended. That doesn't sound on demand to me.

I think its funny, the one PC I have thats not on all the time is my gaming PC, and I had not removed AVG from it. I bought the game Bioshock and loaded it and was using an internet fix that included a mini image so that I didn't have to load the cd every time. Inside this fix was a folder called real files that had Bioshock files in it supposedly from the actual DVD. Avg must have gotten a hold of the same fix and tagged all the files in it as trojans and inadvertantly tagged the actual Bioshock.exe in the real files folder too because the day after I loaded Bioshock (legit mind you) AVG tagged its exe file as a trojan. What idiots work there, they just randomly choose files from a crack they download off the net and then tag and add files to their definitions. They must look at Microsoft with those puppy eyes and pant, love us, we are protecting you from the bad people on the net pant pant! A bunch of Morons must be running that place now.