Parity Boot Virus

[Gene]

I ran an avg virus scan and my computer locked with the
message parity boot. How can i remove this? thanks for any
help.

[Steven Burn]

http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_1450.htm

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"Gene" > wrote in message
...
> I ran an avg virus scan and my computer locked with the
> message parity boot. How can i remove this? thanks for any
> help.

[Joep]

"Gene" > wrote in message
...
> I ran an avg virus scan and my computer locked with the
> message parity boot. How can i remove this? thanks for any
> help.

AVG sucks, bin it.

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Joep

[SFB - KB3MM]

What's wrong with it ?

"Joep" <j o e p @ d i y d a t a r e c o v e r y . n l> wrote in message
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> "Gene" > wrote in message
> ...
> > I ran an avg virus scan and my computer locked with the
> > message parity boot. How can i remove this? thanks for any
> > help.
>
> AVG sucks, bin it.
>
> --
> Joep
>
>

[Joep]

"SFB - KB3MM" > wrote in message
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> What's wrong with it ?
>

IMO it causes too many false positives (especially the background
component). There are no intellignet ways to deal with false positives, nor
does their support respond to reports of false positives.

I have used AVG for quite a while - I became very frustrated with false
positives. I believe the false positives were mainly triggered by the
behavioral component. The positives reported were never confirmed by other
on demand scanners, behavioral scanners or even the AVG on demand scanner.

I couldn't get the stupid software to ignore the specific programs that
triggered it's alerts.

Some may argument that they rather have false positives than false
negatives. Well, I don't, I don't want either of them. IMO false positives
may cause people to disable the scanner or ignore it's alerts.

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Joep

[SFB - KB3MM]

Thanks for the input

I have never seen that with version 6 or 7.

Most of what I have seen are annoyances e.g. version 7 will not dial
out for an update if an internet connection exists.

"Joep" <j o e p @ d i y d a t a r e c o v e r y . n l> wrote in message
-service-com...
> "SFB - KB3MM" > wrote in message
> ...
> > What's wrong with it ?
> >
>
> IMO it causes too many false positives (especially the background
> component). There are no intellignet ways to deal with false positives,
nor
> does their support respond to reports of false positives.
>
> I have used AVG for quite a while - I became very frustrated with false
> positives. I believe the false positives were mainly triggered by the
> behavioral component. The positives reported were never confirmed by other
> on demand scanners, behavioral scanners or even the AVG on demand scanner.
>
> I couldn't get the stupid software to ignore the specific programs that
> triggered it's alerts.
>
> Some may argument that they rather have false positives than false
> negatives. Well, I don't, I don't want either of them. IMO false positives
> may cause people to disable the scanner or ignore it's alerts.
>
> --
> Joep
>
>