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anti virus software
chrispbug
Posts: 202 Forumite
in Techie Stuff
I dare say this has been covered before but here goes...
I'm using Norton anti virus 2007 on my laptop. Everytime I do a scan it reports everything is okay - no viruses, trojans etc.
As a test I decided to download and run AVG free antivirus and run that. This software picked up 2 viruses straight away - ones which Norton had obviously missed.
Now I'm confused - why would one antivirus pick up problems and Norton doesn't ?
I'm using Norton anti virus 2007 on my laptop. Everytime I do a scan it reports everything is okay - no viruses, trojans etc.
As a test I decided to download and run AVG free antivirus and run that. This software picked up 2 viruses straight away - ones which Norton had obviously missed.
Now I'm confused - why would one antivirus pick up problems and Norton doesn't ?
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might be a "false positive" you should not run 2 anti Virus at the same timeEx forum ambassador
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More likely to be AVG that is wrong. What the files that AVG picked up?It's taken me years of experience to get this cynical0
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I use avg and I would not have norton. Try the kaspersky online scanner- it only finds probs. ,it doesn't fix them so note them all down if it does find any.0
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I'd say it was more likely to be false positives as well. But worth keeping in mind that Norton does have a lower detection rate of genuine viruses."She is quite the oddball. Did you notice how she didn't even get excited when she saw this original ZX-81?"
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