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Post by johnnyangel58 on May 12, 2010 16:54:58 GMT
Hi folks me again I'm only just back online again and I get a ruddy virus of some sort picked up by Avira. The only problem I have is the above nasty was picked up with 4 afflictions, but when I went into the avira virus network to check what it was there was absolutely nowt. I googled it but I can't find anything that makes any sense a few messages in chinese or something or other, certainly not from Grimsby lol. Has anybody heard of these little blighters and what are they please. Since I got them the darn thing is running very slow when changing programs or pages. I hope avira gets rid of it for me as its about halfway through the scan, just surprised they were picking it up but didn't know what it was  ?? Cheers, John  |
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Post by ken on May 12, 2010 19:04:17 GMT
I cant figure it out either John, but it seems to be something to do with Avira definitions. I would get rid of Avira and install Avast. Run Super Antispyware and see if that picks up anything. Also run Malwarebytes AntiMalware, just to be on the safe side.
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Post by johnnyangel58 on May 12, 2010 21:41:49 GMT
Thanks Ken, I will change to avast as I have it on the lappy when I can get near it lol, plus do the other scans also. it put the wind up me when it went off this afternoon
Cheers,
John
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Post by ken on May 13, 2010 9:13:44 GMT
Wish I knew more about it John, but Chinese doesn't translate into Spanish very good. It is only happening in Avira anyway. I think their definitions are thowing up false positives left, right and centre. It might be doing its job fine, but I would rather use something I can understand.
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Post by nike on May 13, 2010 20:27:00 GMT
I wouldn't sell AVIRA short. I've been trialling it on a couple of office computers in a company I look after, for the last six months, and it has prevented a few nasties from lodging on these two computers. I've been looking at it as a replacement for Avast, if it suddenly decides to become like AVG did. It's been doing a good job so far, and I think it's a pretty good A/V program actually. It won't take the place of SUPERAntispyware or Mbam, and it wasn't expected to, but it does the job it's designed to do very well.
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