AVG Update: Yet More Fake Traffic With New Disguises

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

In an update to our June 20th post referring to Grisoft’s AVG anti-virus product spewing fake traffic (in our opinion a flawed architecture design by the company’s CTO, Karel Obluk). Cade Metz, of The Register, has delved a bit deeper into the issue, and has discovered that over last weekend, ...

Vista’s UAC spots rootkits

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

Love or hate its nagging prompts, Vista's Account Control feature (UAC) has a security feature that marks it out from any other type of Windows security programme -- it can spot rootkits before they install. This is one finding buried in a report published in two German computer ...

New Tests Show Rootkits Still Evade AV

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

Rootkits are still a security scanner’s worst nightmare: New rootkit detection tests recently conducted by AV-Test.org found that security suites and online Web scanners detected overall only a little more than half of rootkits. AV-Test.org, an indie security test organization based in Germany, ran two rootkit tests last month, one on ...

AVG Technologies Releases AVG Anti-Virus Free 8.0

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

AVG Technologies, a leading provider of Internet security software, will tomorrow release AVG Anti-Virus Free 8.0, the latest version of the company’s popular and widely-used free security software, which now incorporates protection against spyware through a new combined anti-virus and anti-spyware engine. AVG Free provides basic protection against viruses and spyware, ...

Free Protection

Monday, March 31st, 2008

This page was designed to be PC Sympathy's One-Stop Source for protecting your PC, online and offline, from viruses and other malicious programs that you may encounter. Each section below will provide you with the resources you need for various levels of protection. While there are many choices out there, ...

Problems updating AVG?

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

Navigate to your AVG install directory and rename your existing url.ini file to url.iniold.Copy the following and paste into notepad and save it as url.ini. Put this new file into your AVG install directory. You'll now have 3 options to select from with www.grisoft.com being the default.[SERVER_NAME] 1=free.grisoft.cz 2=ftp.grisoft.com 3=www.grisoft.com [SERVER_URL] 1=http://free.grisoft.cz/softw/60/fe 2=ftp.grisoft.com/pub/softw/60/fe/ 3=http://www.grisoft.com/softw/60/fe/ Actual URL=3