Free anti-virus software
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Plotloss said:
www.grisoft.com I think.
Cheers Matt i'll have a look at that one. Anyone have any personal experience the freebies. I will be installing it on someone else's pc and don't want any nasty surprises !
) ever since.GCerbera said:
Had a corrupted Outlook Express In Box 3 times in a month and twice in 48 hours
and techy fingers are being pointed at AVG.
Hearing others may be now having the same problems.
Anyone know any more?
>> Edited by GCerbera on Wednesday 26th May 22:43
Version 6 or 7?
I've never seen this problem, and would imagine I would have, given the reasonable size of user base we have.
SoftwareSorcerer said:
Had a corrupted Outlook Express In Box 3 times in a month and twice in 48 hours
and techy fingers are being pointed at AVG.
Hearing others may be now having the same problems.
Anyone know any more?
>> Edited by GCerbera on Wednesday 26th May 22:43
Version 6 or 7?
I've never seen this problem, and would imagine I would have, given the reasonable size of user base we have.
Me neither, and I am an authorised AVG reseller. Admittedly, v6 was a bit 'quirky', but since the rollout of v7, I have had no reports of problems from my customers - with over 400 clients.
I can not comment enough on the network edition of AVG 7 Professional - it is proper. Have not encountered one infected machine, and once set up correctly, they all download autonimously and reliably across the whole network.
I am not going to get into a debate as to whether it is better than other AV's, and I have tried most, but clearly some perform better than others in different scenario's - it's horses for courses.
One thing I have noticed in general is that all AV's seem to be quite busy with the updates these days as more and more scrotes find vulnerabilities in windoze
Bring on Foghorn/leghorn or what ever it is called as that is supposed to stop this permanently.
GCerbera said:
Had a corrupted Outlook Express In Box 3 times in a month and twice in 48 hours
and techy fingers are being pointed at AVG.
Hearing others may be now having the same problems.
Anyone know any more?
Do you run it on your mail server?
Basically, we have seen a situation occur with many virus scanners where the scanner detects a virus in a mailbox file, and deletes the virus.
Many mail server packages use index files to determine what mail is in a mailbox - when the AV software deletes a portion of the mailbox, it can then result in the index being out of synchronisation, and a corrupt mailbox.
We see this almost daily... (Not on our servers I might add - our customers get it though)
I run the free V6.
I am sure fairly sure it is not virus related as email goes via a mail wash
and I only let through what I know and expect.
By moving the inbox to another pc, I can open it there, but it won't let me see it on the main system.
Naturally the techy help people say not to run anti virus as it is more trouble than it's worth.
I think they say that as a pc with a virus keep them in wages...
As I get about 200 - 300 emails a day, and generally need to keep around 100, I
need to resolve this quickly.
Thanks folks.
I am sure fairly sure it is not virus related as email goes via a mail wash
and I only let through what I know and expect.
By moving the inbox to another pc, I can open it there, but it won't let me see it on the main system.
Naturally the techy help people say not to run anti virus as it is more trouble than it's worth.
I think they say that as a pc with a virus keep them in wages...
As I get about 200 - 300 emails a day, and generally need to keep around 100, I
need to resolve this quickly.
Thanks folks.
At that rate of retention, it could just be that you're OE mailbox is getting a bit big.
Bit of a long way around: could create a new mailbox to use on the main pc and get back to the world of the living. Copy corrupted 'box to other pc, open and export all mails to archive or some other format. Copy back to main pc and import.
Backup everything first, of course.
Bit of a long way around: could create a new mailbox to use on the main pc and get back to the world of the living. Copy corrupted 'box to other pc, open and export all mails to archive or some other format. Copy back to main pc and import.
Backup everything first, of course.
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