I Had Avast now Avira Free... Cannot Download AV File Updates
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From: Michael on 6 Feb 2010 19:50 About 6 days ago my avast AV that I had used for years suddenly refused to connect me to its update server. I uninstalled Avast had a clean download of Avira but it too refused to updated AV files (leaving me frozen protection wise back in November, 2009). I have disabled both my Sygate Firewall and my Spybot Real Time Protection with no luck. Something has clearly infected the dialer (or other connect) on my computer (Firefox/XP) preventing it from connecting with and receiving updates for two otherwise fine Free Antivirus programs. Any assistance greatly appreciated.
From: David H. Lipman on 6 Feb 2010 20:38 From: "Michael" <Temprock(a)hotmail.com> | About 6 days ago my avast AV that I had used for years suddenly | refused to connect me to its update server. | I uninstalled Avast had a clean download of Avira but it too refused | to updated AV files (leaving me frozen protection wise back in | November, 2009). | I have disabled both my Sygate Firewall and my Spybot Real Time | Protection with no luck. | Something has clearly infected the dialer (or other connect) on my | computer (Firefox/XP) preventing it from connecting with and receiving | updates for two otherwise fine Free Antivirus programs. | Any assistance greatly appreciated. Have you at least scanned you PC ? Have you examined to see if there is a etc/HOSTS file ? -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
From: The Central Scrutinizer on 7 Feb 2010 00:23 So if you had all this stuff going on, how did you get compromised? Are you running with local admin privs? "Michael" <Temprock(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:d8f789ef-be90-49ed-b515-9fdfae5a7568(a)o28g2000yqh.googlegroups.com... > About 6 days ago my avast AV that I had used for years suddenly > refused to connect me to its update server. > > I uninstalled Avast had a clean download of Avira but it too refused > to updated AV files (leaving me frozen protection wise back in > November, 2009). > > I have disabled both my Sygate Firewall and my Spybot Real Time > Protection with no luck. > > Something has clearly infected the dialer (or other connect) on my > computer (Firefox/XP) preventing it from connecting with and receiving > updates for two otherwise fine Free Antivirus programs. > > Any assistance greatly appreciated.
From: David W. Hodgins on 8 Feb 2010 02:50 On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:09:57 -0500, Bill <wsblevins(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > Microsoft offers a free anti-virus and firewall, both of which appear to > be sufficient. That would be hilarious, if there were not so many fools who thought the same. Microsoft is excellent at marketing, and using illegal methods to prevent their competitors from competing with them. They have never been good at writing high quality software. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSAV for a bit of history regarding M$ and anti-virus software. Why would you even think of trusting the company that provided the virus susceptible software, to be capable of providing anti virus software? Microsoft is not capable of writing secure software. They never have been, and never will be. They are the primary reason the net has so many problems with spam, coming from botnets using computers run by m$ users. Microsoft is the reason criminal organizations are able to steal millions of credit card numbers, etc. In my opinion, m$ should be held liable for the damage they have caused. That will never happen, but I wish it would. Gates should be forced into bankruptcy, in order to pay for trying to fix the mess he, and his company, has caused. While the press often credits m$ for getting the average non-computer literate user to use computers, they should also be blamed for making all financial and personal info of those users, available to criminals. In my opinion, Microsoft is a criminal organization. If you want to have a reasonably secure computer system, don't even think of running anything written by m$ on it. Dave Hodgins -- Change nomail.afraid.org to ody.ca to reply by email. (nomail.afraid.org has been set up specifically for use in usenet. Feel free to use it yourself.)
From: The Central Scrutinizer on 9 Feb 2010 02:02 Please ignore everything about this post... Whoa!!! "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins(a)nomail.afraid.org> wrote in message news:op.u7stdnmpa3w0dxdave(a)hodgins.homeip.net... > On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:09:57 -0500, Bill <wsblevins(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >> Microsoft offers a free anti-virus and firewall, both of which appear to >> be sufficient. > > That would be hilarious, if there were not so many fools who > thought the same. > > Microsoft is excellent at marketing, and using illegal methods > to prevent their competitors from competing with them. > > They have never been good at writing high quality software. > > See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSAV for a bit of history > regarding M$ and anti-virus software. Why would you even > think of trusting the company that provided the virus > susceptible software, to be capable of providing anti virus > software? > > Microsoft is not capable of writing secure software. They > never have been, and never will be. They are the primary > reason the net has so many problems with spam, coming from > botnets using computers run by m$ users. Microsoft is the > reason criminal organizations are able to steal millions of > credit card numbers, etc. > > In my opinion, m$ should be held liable for the damage > they have caused. That will never happen, but I wish it > would. Gates should be forced into bankruptcy, in order > to pay for trying to fix the mess he, and his company, > has caused. While the press often credits m$ for getting > the average non-computer literate user to use computers, > they should also be blamed for making all financial and > personal info of those users, available to criminals. > > In my opinion, Microsoft is a criminal organization. > > If you want to have a reasonably secure computer system, > don't even think of running anything written by m$ on it. > > Dave Hodgins > > -- > Change nomail.afraid.org to ody.ca to reply by email. > (nomail.afraid.org has been set up specifically for > use in usenet. Feel free to use it yourself.)
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