Warnings from AVG about random pages.

[Exentenzed]

I keep getting warnings when i enter some pages from my AVG antivirus.

It says that it contains links to a site called "www.slashgamer.com" which is known to spread malicious software. It seems relatively random aswell. Example; i went into "Shooters" category yesterday and it was completely fine. Today? warnings against that site.

Just though I'd let you know.

[Jokersvirus]

I dont trust nor like AVG it completely locked up my computer prevented me from accessing the internet, prevented me from even removing it.

[Ilyich Valken]

If you've been the site before and you know it's not malicious, it's a false positive. Add it to your allowed sites or something and it'll stop. lol

[Exentenzed]

Well i don't know wether its true or not. Never been to the site :P
But anyway ive allowed it so it dosent pop back up when im browsing arounf GF.
Just thought it was odd is all.

[EpsilonX]

There are a lot of sites where there'll be ads to "unhealthy" sites, and it gets blocked.

but that graphical evolution of a series topic, page 3 has a post which uses images from that website, and i had a rough time trying to get onto the page lol.

[Exentenzed]

Well i can just click "Continue anyway" but yea, Page 3 does have that. :)

[LiNuX]

Is the popup only when you're browsing through this forum? Or any website?

Seems weird. I use AVG on my XP (although I should delete it) and never had that problem. Then again...I kill it when I start up, I don't even know why I have it.

[Exentenzed]

It pops up whenever i enter a site that has been reported as to contain malicious software or when i enter a web page with content from a site that has been reported... First time I've seen it on GF though.

[LiNuX]

Weird. Could have been an avg glitch. Or I mean, AVG normalcy.

[Exentenzed]

Most likely the latter :P

[Muffincat]

I use AVG and this happened to me the other day, too. It happens sometimes to other websites, but that was the first time it happened when I was on GF.

[Saph]

I had the same problem that Joker did!

I tried AVG to get away from Bullguard and Norton.

Lets just say that I had it for 3 days, and I had to bring it down to a shop to get help with removing it =S No matter what I tried it gave me some lame ass excuse for why NOT to remove it.

One stupid thing I got was:

"It is highly recommended to keep AVG Anti Virus on your computer for security purposes! If you still wish to remove AVG from your computer, please install a 2nd security software before removing AVG for your own securitys sake!"(Or something like that)

But the problem was that the moment I tried to install any of my old anti virus programs, it would say something along the lines of that AVG was already installed and therefor none other could be installed. =S

Sometimes I even wonder if the AVG I got was actually a fake malicious one, cause it just doesnt seem right that a program meant to protect you ends up hijacking your rig from the inside out!

[Ilyich Valken]

That's why you don't use AVG, Norton, McAfee... they're all horrible at what they do, they're a resource hog, or some other affect that makes them utter crap. Lol

[paecmaker]

Use avast instead, its free and fairly good.

[Saph]

I actually dont mind Norton 360, its deffinately their best one around! Dont bash my Bodyguard bro!

I like Norton :cheesy:

[Jokersvirus]

I use norton, its not a resource hog anymore runs silently and doesnt take up alot of resources if any at all

avast is great and I love it however it stopped out of no where it scanned my entire hard drive within 20 seconds which was just odd

[Saph]

I use norton, its not a resource hog anymore runs silently and doesnt take up alot of resources if any at all

That right there. Better way to say it than mine.

[ROFLBRYCE]

I use norton, its not a resource hog anymore runs silently and doesnt take up alot of resources if any at all

avast is great and I love it however it stopped out of no where it scanned my entire hard drive within 20 seconds which was just odd

Norton picks up a lot of stuff as viruses when it's not, though. My uTorrent, WoW, Steam, and basically anything that uses P2P or any sort of downloading, other than IE, FireFox etc, gets dinged as viruses. Been like that for each of my 3 computers running various OS and Norton versions.

Avast is great though, even the free version.

OT: AVG picks up many sites. I've gotten virus warnings on Hotmail, the Playstation homepage, and MLG forums a few times. It's ridiculous.

[Saph]

I've used Norton for as long as I can remember, Norton 360 since it was available, and I have played several MMORPGs requiring P2P etc.

NEVER has my norton denied it as a virus, not even ONCE

I dont know what you do or what has been done for your Norton to behave as such, but you must've done SOMETHING to it to respond as such, cause I've never fooled with it deeply enough to preblock etc. anything before.

My mother in law fooled around with Norton trying to block past websites that gave her viruses etc. and suddenly she couldnt visit websites that had links to said websites =S It pretty much blocked ANY possible connection with websites put on preblock. It is actually a good security measure if you ask me! It makes absolutely sure that ANY back alleys or little country roads are blocked off from the websites that're blocked.

But how you managed to get P2P things such as WoW blocked? Lol dude I have no idea, I just know it NEVER happened to me before after years of usage!:)

[ROFLBRYCE]

@Saph, I don't get blocked, just the warnings pop up each and every time. Even after I turn off notifications is the thing. I don't do anything with Norton, besides uninstall now. The laptop I'm on now came with it pre-installed, and almost everything I did was a problem. It deleted my WoW.exe twice, and the WoWRepair.exe once as well before I did my last uninstall. Deicede, FlyFF, MapleStory, Combat Arms, even Warcraft 3 are games I tried and all, in the scan, popped up as viruses. Didn't delete them, but still they shouldn't be there in the report at all.

Maybe Norton just hates me lol

[Saph]

Lol I'd think so =S What kind of Norton was it!? Must've been a pretty old version, cause Norton 360 is so far flawless, and has found over 160 attempts to infiltrate my computer, 60 of which were during idle mode where I wasnt even around =S

I love Norton right now, it NEVER interrupts me, it NEVER gets in the way, and only puts a little popup in the bottom corner to notify me when someone tried to hack me, and even that can be turned off! The only time it REALLY freaked when I got some sorta REALLY friggin nasty thing in an email from a friend, it shut down the computer completely in an emergency and when the computer came back up Norton went absolutely crazy, stuff happening so fast I couldnt keep up, and afterwards the computer was clean, and the infected file was put in quarantine.

As mentioned, I love Norton :D As in Norton 360, I agree the past ones were buggy as heck!

[Jokersvirus]

Norton picks up a lot of stuff as viruses when it's not, though. My uTorrent, WoW, Steam, and basically anything that uses P2P or any sort of downloading, other than IE, FireFox etc, gets dinged as viruses. Been like that for each of my 3 computers running various OS and Norton versions.

Avast is great though, even the free version.

OT: AVG picks up many sites. I've gotten virus warnings on Hotmail, the Playstation homepage, and MLG forums a few times. It's ridiculous.

Ive never had the problem with norton ive been using it for a good 2 months now I want to use avast as my second antivirus but if they wont fix the problem that caused it to spaz on me there is no hope of me ever using it again