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    Forums Moved to Dedicated Domain

    in Malwarebytes News

    Posted

    Er, I have a lot of bookmarks to topics here

    Oh man, that's a point Mountaintree16... I do too. I just updated the main one on my links bar to the forum itself though. The rest wil be a project for a rainy day.

    Thanks for the notification guys. :D I noticed the board was 'offline' for a little while last evening. Mystery solved!

    Antivirus for basic user

    in General Windows PC Help

    Posted

    Hello Mountaintree :D

    One of the things I like about AVG free is that it is very simple to use, but MSE sounds even simpler ( a true "set and forget product" - to quote marktreg :) ) and it has much better detection rates than AVG from what I've read and heard. I have yet to switch AVs, but my step-brother has MSE on his new netbook and I had a good play with it the other day. I was impressed with it, and it's super easy to use.

    PS I've just remembered the ongoing problem of frequent AVG FPs with MBAM software. That mightn't be the easiest thing for your friend's mother to deal with. Another vote for MSE :)

    Windows Defender

    in General Windows PC Help

    Posted

    Just to add to what exile360 said about some AVs deliberately shutting down Windows Defender - AVG9 does this on installation. Previous versions of AVG did not, but the new version 9 does. (Mentioning this because you don't say which AV you're using in your post).

    (AVG claim they disable Windows Defender now on the advice of Microsoft because of system slowing issues).

    I have a question about the internet connection icon in Vista

    in General Windows PC Help

    Posted

    Hi. I'm very familiar with that triangle with the "!". I have an incredibly unstable DSL connection (long story that I won't bore you with) and so every time my connection drops off I get that sign just before it comes back on line again with the globe. If you hover your mouse over it, it will say "limited connection". And right on cue it has dropped again (fourth time in 20mins). I'll have to copy and paste this and re-login to post the comment. Firefox has explained the finer details of why it happens. :) The symbol does not stand for an infection as you'd read elsewhere.

    Notifications

    in General Chat

    Posted

    It does seem odd to have that many for sure, even if you have enabled receiving comments to any topic you have started or posted in. To check if you have this option enabled please go to: My controls (at top of page), look at the side bar and you'll see "options" at the bottom, click on "email settings" and uncheck the option that says "Enable email notification by default". If that doesn't sort it out then there is probably more to the story as noknojon pointed out above.

    Bitter cold weather in Florida

    in General Chat

    Posted

    It's only 14 deg C here tonight noknojon (current temp at 11.30pm). I'm not sure which side of the Tasman you'd rather be, but someone forgot to tell my part of NZ that it's summer! Still, I don't envy people having extremes of tempeature. I'd just never survive a Northern Hemisphere winter or an Australian summer! (notoriously warm parts of Australia anyway).

    bing google

    in General Windows PC Help

    Posted

    @Mountaintree

    Dogpile?!! Bizarre name! (Mind you Google and Scroogle are weird-ass names too).

    @hello2007

    I've never heard of ixquick. I'll look into it. Thanks :)

    (I think I need new keyboard batteries. Have edited typos repeatedly tonight! Either that or my brain and fingers are no longer talking to eachother)

    bing google

    in General Windows PC Help

    Posted

    @ exile360

    I have just started using scroogle thanks to education from you and Mountaintree16. It's a great invention! Thanks. :)

    (I haven't made it my default or added it to my FF or IE search engine though, I have just added it to my links toolbar so it's right there when I need it).

    What is This?

    in Malwarebytes for Windows Support Forum

    Posted

    @ chimpy

    Yes I've been keeping an eye out on that page for news about the official end date, because I am intending to change AVs when support for 8.5 ends (or maybe even before, we'll see.....). Don't kick yourself chimpy because AVG9 installed beautifully for you and has been running really well ( last I heard anyway :) )

    I'm only guessing, but it's possible that some people who are not affected by these recurrent AVG FPs have missed the definition files that caused the FPs. AVG free only updates automatically every 24hrs (though you can manually update as often as you like), and so it's easy to miss one, or have it corrected by the time you next update (if you get what I mean?) The other possibility is they've read the FAQ here and excluded all MBAM files in AVG (like me!)

    What is This?

    in Malwarebytes for Windows Support Forum

    Posted

    Yes that was me who pointed that out originally by the way.

    I did see that, and I apologise for not mentioning your name as the original person to mention that version 9 is the latest.

    Regarding AVG's support on AVG8

    The sole reason AVG still supports old versions is not because of bugs (unless you count the entire program as buggy) The reason is because not everyone updates straight away

    But since AVG9 has been out for many months now, I think we can be satisfied that its the latest working version :)

    I don't know the AVG's reasons for still fully supporting 8.5, all I know is that they do. The point of my comment was to inform the original poster that the version he/she is using is protecting him as well as version 9 will (until AVG discontinues their support of 8.x). Do you follow the AVG free forum? I do. While many of the version 9 bugs have been ironed out, and as I said, many people are running version 9 without issue, there still does seem to be a lot of people posting about problems with this newest version. I simply thought the OP should be aware of this (if they were not already). It is totally their choice whether they keep AVG 8.5, go to 9, go to avira, or go to any other AV.

    I have suggested to uninstall it (plus obviously to run the removal tool) Mainly because why bother informing AVG? You inform them.

    I was reinforcing what AdvancedSetup suggested. MBAM cannot fix this as it is an AVG issue, therefore AVG need to be informed in order for them to correct it. I am not having this problem because I have added all MBAM folders and files to my AVG exclusion list (as per the recommendation in the FAQ in the pinned topic above). Since I am not having the problem I don't see that I should inform them, however I thought the OP might like to know how to go about this.

    Mean while Free Avira seems to be going along strong without issue.

    Yes I promote free Avira Antivirus, only because I truly believe its the best (ie way better than AVG) I also believe Malwarebytes is the best Anti-Malware tool as well.

    People can make their own minds up, and use what they like. But I will say I've seen more malware issues with AVG installed than Avira. Plus it seems to work well for me :) But I'm not bias, because if I find something better then I'll suggest that (free of course) At this stage, and at least for the last year or so, I believe Free Avira and Malwarebytes to be the best malware protection/disinfection of them all :)

    So stick with old AVG8 or AVG8.5 if you like, and ponder why on earth they updated to the next, as you say, buggy version.

    Yes I've seen & heard excellent things about Avira, and I am looking into changing to it or MSE when support for AVG 8.5 ends. I agree that people can make up their own minds.

    @ chimpy

    That's good to hear. They must have corrected the FP ( 8.5 & 9 use the same virus definition files). :)

    What is This?

    in Malwarebytes for Windows Support Forum

    Posted

    Just to wanted add to what others have said above.

    Re updating to AVG9 - as Mountaintree16 has pointed out, version 9 is the latest version. However some are choosing not to update to it just yet as for the time being version 8.5 is still fully supported (i.e. it offers the same protection as version 9), and it seems version 9 has a number of bugs that are yet to be worked out. It's running well for many people, but causing a lot of headaches for others (judging by the posts in the version 9 section of the AVG free forum).

    Version 8.5 uses the same virus definitions database as version 9, therefore I suspect if 8.5 is going to detect a MBAM file, so will version 9. You should let AVG know about this false positive as per AdvancedSetup's recommendation, else they won't correct it. The instructions for doing this are on a sticky post in the AVG forum, and the link to this is here: http://forums.avg.com/au-en/avg-free-forum...show&id=395

    Good luck! :)

    NoScript not updating

    in General Windows PC Help

    Posted

    I'm pretty sure I read a thread about this sometime ago on the NoScript forum. If I remember, the discrepancy is because the later versions are sometimes still in testing. What is offered via checking for updates via the addon window in firefox are the latest versions in full release that are no longer being tested. I could be wrong about this, but I'm pretty sure that is what I read, when I had a similar query some time ago.

    This is the link to the NoScript forum http://forums.informaction.com/viewforum.php?f=3

    Note - anyone can post in the forum entitiled "NoScript Support" - you don't need to register. The creator od NoScript reads the forum and very often will respond too. You might like to verify what I've said is correct. :)

    Default MSN Messenger Emoticons

    in General Chat

    Posted

    The icons are about the only thing I like about hotmail (they're the same as the ones on MSN). Gmail and yahoo icons are awful.

    Thanks for posting these. ;) I have a few friends who use trillian and pidgin, and so it good to have this as a reference for them (though I hardly use IM programmes now, I must admit).

    EDIT - having said that, I do like the animated emoticon in Gmail that is a small pile of dung with a few flies buzzing around it. It often sums up my day at work beautifully.

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