avast antivirus..help me!!!

[Gui..]

hi u guys!!

huuhh first of all my windows isnt vista,is't XP,but i didnt find the right
community for it so i decided to post here..if somebody knows,please answer
me,it's important for me and my pc...READ IT I IMPLORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
today i was seeing some photos on google images..everyone know that on
google the images are little,then we gotta click the photos to enlarge them...
well i clicked one and as usual,under the image that appears,there's the
site where it came from..when the page loaded,the following message appeared:
"welcome to..." (i forgot the name of the site)
so i just clicked ok...right after,avast antivirus found a virus...and on
the message shown was telling me to desconnect...well i clicked 'desconnect'
and then i closed the web page....i ran the antivirus on my pc and avast
found no more viruses,but i don't know if the virus is outta my pc..
what does the command 'desconnect' mean on the avast message???

[Rick Rogers]

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Post by Gui..
hi u guys!!
huuhh first of all my windows isnt vista,is't XP,but i didnt find the right
community for it so i decided to post here..if somebody knows,please answer
me,it's important for me and my pc...READ IT I IMPLORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
today i was seeing some photos on google images..everyone know that on
google the images are little,then we gotta click the photos to enlarge them...
well i clicked one and as usual,under the image that appears,there's the
"welcome to..." (i forgot the name of the site)
so i just clicked ok...right after,avast antivirus found a virus...and on
the message shown was telling me to desconnect...well i clicked 'desconnect'
and then i closed the web page....i ran the antivirus on my pc and avast
found no more viruses,but i don't know if the virus is outta my pc..
what does the command 'desconnect' mean on the avast message???

[gregwith2gs]

if i understand you correctly, did you mean "disconnect"?

i have avast! and when it detects a virus while browsing, it may
instruct me to "disconnect" (actually, it probably uses the words "abort
connection").

hope this helps.

[ribeiro]

avast protected you by the order of desconect so that the site trying to
violate into your pc was blocked.
thats o.k. now you know that site its a trap for all meanings.
Keep the VRDB of Avast funcional. Activate it for a complete reading
once in a while and deactivate it when done. It protects virus data base
of avast, so thus preventing a virus of destroying the anti-virus and
acess your system. May you consider having also Spyware Doctor program
installed toghether with avast, one kisses the other in good harmony,
getting you high in net surfing safe.

[Lester Stiefel]

Post by ribeiro
avast protected you by the order of desconect so that the site trying to
violate into your pc was blocked.
thats o.k. now you know that site its a trap for all meanings.
Keep the VRDB of Avast funcional. Activate it for a complete reading
once in a while and deactivate it when done. It protects virus data base
of avast, so thus preventing a virus of destroying the anti-virus and
acess your system. May you consider having also Spyware Doctor program
installed toghether with avast, one kisses the other in good harmony,
getting you high in net surfing safe.

I had a similar issue trying out Panda Softwares
'ActiveScan' - AVAST does not ilk to have any additional
/other AV software installed as yet (detects it as possible
Virus). I'm trying to resolve this with them, but do not
know if there will be a solution.

Thank you - Lester

[ribeiro]

Hi Lester,

I do run avast pro, v.4.8 and Spyware Doctor v.5.5.0.212 whithout its
anti-virús, they work very well toghether and never gave me problems.
Work well over XPŽs and VistaŽs. Its a nice duet and i pratice them to
all the clients i get. Mostly private users and small companies without
networks, just running single pcŽs. For bigger enterprises thatŽs
another history.
I donŽt like Panda, i had an issue with them when they firstly came to
the market, wasted money with the products and after i didnŽt get any
support but a sort of joke between Portugal and Spain phone calls, well.
a month ago i was called to clean a butch of Trojans, keyloggers, in a
office where they had Panda freshly running and Panda didnŽt protect
them nothing at all, it was atacked first by this viroses and then they
went for the system. Avast as this VRDB wich seals its virus data base
thus preventing being afected and also garanties the true removal of
virus. Nobody "feels" the presence of this Avast working permanently
over the system, its good and its light. Spyware Doctor just also
complements the rest of the protection on its own and kills anything
that its ready to kill. Many others detect threats but donŽt remove
them.
Panda itŽs another heavy duty anti-virús that takes more out of the pc
then the user itself, like Symantec, McAfee, etc.

[tashfeen]

1. I think the webpage that you opened had malware, which Avast tried
to protect you from. You ought to check your computer for spyware,
etc; read this: http://techqi.blogspot.com/2008/01/miscellaneous-security-software-part-1.html.

2. As much as it's loved, Avast doesn't have the best real-time
scanner out there (here's my experience:
http://avscan.blogspot.com/2008/01/avast-47-home-edition-review.html).
You might want to grab a different antivirus; check out http://avscan.blogspot.com.

3. Are you using a good firewall? XP's firewall is far from perfect,
so you definitely need something. I suggest ZoneAlarm (http://
techqi.blogspot.com/2008/01/miscellaneous-security-software-
part-2.html).

Good luck!
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tashfeen
http://techqi.blogspot.com
http://avscan.blogspot.com