Forum: Wordfast support
Topic: AVG and wordfast Classic
Poster: Oliver Walter
Post title: AVG is wrong in this case!
I have AVG (free) version 2012. I have asked it to scan wordfast.dot (version 5.92m, the one I currently use). AVG thinks it contains a virus of type W97M/Generic ! Does somebody (e.g. Dominique) know which part of this wordfast template looks like a virus as defined by AVG?
Yes, as you may have inferred, my AVG doesn't automatically scan hard-disk contents. Its only automatic activity is the anti-rootkit. Yes, that was my deliberate choice. My protection against viruses in email attachments is the fact that an email with an attachment containing a virus is so obvious to me; I either delete them or put them in a 'museum' folder for possibly showing to other people and/or deleting later. The one thing that is prohibited with such an email is to open the attachment to see why you were incorrectly sent the invoice, receipt, delivery notice etc. That action will install the virus and the company that appears to have sent the email most likely knows nothing about it. Sometimes I download the attachment to my hard disk (download, NOT open) and ask AVG to scan it - the result is usually that it detects a "trojan horse" virus (but AVG sometimes doesn't recognise a virus until at least a day after it has been released). I then delete that file.
Topic: AVG and wordfast Classic
Poster: Oliver Walter
Post title: AVG is wrong in this case!
I have AVG (free) version 2012. I have asked it to scan wordfast.dot (version 5.92m, the one I currently use). AVG thinks it contains a virus of type W97M/Generic ! Does somebody (e.g. Dominique) know which part of this wordfast template looks like a virus as defined by AVG?
Yes, as you may have inferred, my AVG doesn't automatically scan hard-disk contents. Its only automatic activity is the anti-rootkit. Yes, that was my deliberate choice. My protection against viruses in email attachments is the fact that an email with an attachment containing a virus is so obvious to me; I either delete them or put them in a 'museum' folder for possibly showing to other people and/or deleting later. The one thing that is prohibited with such an email is to open the attachment to see why you were incorrectly sent the invoice, receipt, delivery notice etc. That action will install the virus and the company that appears to have sent the email most likely knows nothing about it. Sometimes I download the attachment to my hard disk (download, NOT open) and ask AVG to scan it - the result is usually that it detects a "trojan horse" virus (but AVG sometimes doesn't recognise a virus until at least a day after it has been released). I then delete that file.