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From: DL on 3 Mar 2010 09:13 Explicitly not eg SpyBot, Adaware, Malawarebytes are all specifically malaware scanners An Anti Virus application may have some elements of malaware scanning, but that is not their main use Installing multiple AV apps would cause problems & niether would probably function correctly. Multiple malaware scanning tools can be used, with generally no problems "Stan Brown" <the_stan_brown(a)fastmail.fm> wrote in message news:MPG.25f827b3b0aaf3a898c024(a)news.individual.net... > Wed, 3 Mar 2010 11:10:11 -0000 from DL <notvalid(a)spoofaddress.co.uk>: >> >> Niether AVG or Avast are malaware apps, they are both AntiVirus apps, not >> the same as malaware > > I don't know what "malaware" might be, but viruses are certainly a > form of malware and therefore an anti-virus program is an anti- > malware program. > > As has already been remarked in another thread, no one anti-malware > program does the whole job and does it well, so you need multiple > ones. > > -- > Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA > http://OakRoadSystems.com > Shikata ga nai...
From: Ken Blake, MVP on 3 Mar 2010 09:44 On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 11:10:11 -0000, "DL" <notvalid(a)spoofaddress.co.uk> wrote: > Niether AVG or Avast are malaware apps, they are both AntiVirus apps, not > the same as malaware The word "malware" (it's not "malaware") is short for "malicious software." A virus is clearly a form of malicious software, so an anti-virus program is clearly an anti-malware program. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003 Please Reply to the Newsgroup
From: Ken Blake, MVP on 3 Mar 2010 09:50 On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 07:58:40 -0500, Stan Brown <the_stan_brown(a)fastmail.fm> wrote: > Tue, 2 Mar 2010 19:02:01 -0700 from Azy <mr(a)mr.com>: > > I installed avast and when I went to uninstall AVG, the size of Avast in the > > add and remove programs was 114 MB !!! AVG was somehting like 27MG. > > The sizes in Add or Remove Programs are meaningless. I don't know > where those numbers come from, but they are definitely not the amount > of disk that the program uses. I have seen major programs with a > size of just a few K (not M) in Add or Remove programs. And just to put the sizes into perspective, these days you can buy a typical 160GB hard drive for around $40 US. At that price 114MB is less than half a penny's worth of disk space. 114 million bytes may sound like a big number, but it's a *tiny* amount of disk space. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003 Please Reply to the Newsgroup
From: Twayne on 3 Mar 2010 20:56 In news:eatso5dtlao7ut6kji5r0l81sior1bmts6(a)4ax.com, Ken Blake, MVP <kblake(a)this.is.an.invalid.domain> typed: > On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 11:10:11 -0000, "DL" > <notvalid(a)spoofaddress.co.uk> wrote: > >> Niether AVG or Avast are malaware apps, they are both >> AntiVirus apps, not the same as malaware > > > The word "malware" (it's not "malaware") is short for > "malicious software." A virus is clearly a form of > malicious software, so an anti-virus program is clearly an > anti-malware program. It amounts to: a virus is malware, but malware is NOT necessarily a virus. "Malware" is the higher category that is comprised of several others, including AV-ware. Just to keep it balanced so they aren't seen as the exact same thing. A Ford is a car, but a car is not necessarily a Ford; same difference. HTH, Twayne` - -- Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
From: Stan Brown on 3 Mar 2010 22:50
Wed, 3 Mar 2010 14:13:31 -0000 from DL <notvalid(a)spoofaddress.co.uk>: > > Explicitly not > eg SpyBot, Adaware, Malawarebytes are all specifically malaware scanners I don't think anyone will put a lot of faith in someone who thinks the word is "malaware". -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com Shikata ga nai... |