I do not recommend AVG since 8.0 came out.
Penewab2007:You're joking right?! That would be criminal if an AV deleted System32. lol
Why do you say that ?
*IF* you Default set ANY AV product to take care of viruses "automatically" (delete first, then if can't, quarantine it,) why is ANYONE surprised that ANY file could be deleted or quarantined....?
Without prompting from the user ANY file is fair-game.
This is why EXE viruses are so damaging. I had a client last year catch one.....I hadn't seen an EXE virus in about a decade.
Almost as soon as his Anti-virus product, (AVG as it happens,) became aware of each infected EXE program, it was deleted before it could launch.
Anyone want to take a guess at how many EXE files are in Windows ? Never-mind all his client apps that were installed that no longer work.
Needless to say his system was no longer bootable, and when I did a quick search looking at the drive remotely, fully 50% of the remaining EXE files had "modified" dates equal to the date of infection, (rather than windows install date.)
The kicker is.....this virus, near as I can tell, did nothing other than replicate. Had he NOT had AV protection, his system would have remained useable as if nothing was wrong.....for the life of the PC. The "damage" was caused ENTIRELY by the AV protection. Would other AV products have behaved differently ? No. SHOULD they have? Again, No. This is by design.
Would the same thing happen to DLLs....YES. SHOULD the same thing happen to DLLs ? Again, Yes.
If you want to be able to "control" what gets deleted or what "action" to take.....then it needs to be taken off "fix automatically" or similar verbage.
Tallon41
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