Daily Virus

[Gottaa]

On the mornings this week I've been up early and turned my PC on to amuse myself before heading out to work AVG has fired up a virus warning on a file

Secure32.html

Or something very close to that, it may have had odd characters after the 32. Now it pops up this warning, then says it can't delete it because the file isn't there and I'm left feeling there is some virus loitering around on my PC. The name of the virus was something like 'Virus Safe' or certainly made it sound like some anti-virus thing and I'm stuck as to how to pin it down and remove it totally from my system, I'm running the MS spyware beta, spybot and AVG Free all fully update.

Any suggestions very much welcome.

Edit: There is no paytime.exe on the system, or badmanpro.exe

 

[Rowan]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/5034384.stm
If it IS this
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5038330.stm

 

[Cullhaven]

AVG has a history of "false positives" too. It screwed up my ATI drivers by deleting perfectly virus free files a while back.

 

[Git]

Other week i had what AVG described as a Trojan, did nothing to my PC my trojan catcher didnt find it nothing, it only appeared after i did the Windows patch which basically checks to see if your copy is kosher, i have a feeling AVG thought i was otherwise dodgy, i removed it all the same and Windows still updates.

I thought AVG was decent but i am starting to wonder hehe. are there any other decent AntiV's out there worth checking out?

doesnt have to be free i don't mind paying for it but no Norton or McAfee.

 

[Zed]

look at trend or kaspersky

 

[Rowan]

Never had a false positive with AVG myself.
Trend seems to have a good rep, they do a free online scan you can try if you don't trust AVG and there is a 30 day free trial if you find something:

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

 

[Entropy]

I use avast which seems to work well:

www.avast.com

(I switched from AVG about a year ago or so)

 

[Git]

yes i installed Avast on a friends pc the other weekend, seems interesting might give that a go, just find AVG a bit on the odd side doesnt always update and has little things i dont like about it.

 

[Catz]

We're using the Onecare thing from MS atm, its still in beta (and they wouldn't let me pay for it when I tried cos its US only atm!) (bert post)

 

[Gottaa]

Just put on Avast, cool noises and speech when it finds a virus, it's already found 2 viruses which AVG hadn't and I'd often run AVG complete tests.

Now I need to get Avast on everyone's PC I put AVG on