Kaspersky really pissed me off – switching to AVG

It all started with a Template sale thread on DP which i checked out and accessed the template preview website, everything loaded fine, Kaspersky didn’t pop up blocking the page.

After a while i saw dangys’s post:

Avg 8.0 Picked up multiple virus

I noticed from his screen shot that he’s using IE, so i jumped up in defense of Kaspersky:

strange…i’m using firefox and Kaspersky 7 and nothing popped up, most probably it’s an IE exploit(yet an other reason to switch to firefox)

Than Astroman gave the final stroke:

I’m using Firefox, it has nothing to do with the browser.

This determined me to ask a few of my friends to check the page(i asked 3 friends, they were all using AVG Internet security), and they all told me that their AV goes crazy when they access the page.

There was a similar issue back a month ago when Servage got hacked and almost all clusters got infected with some trojan. Luckaly BETng4U noticed it with AVG and told me about it so i got rid of it as quicky as possible(trust me you don’t want to get on stopbadware.org’s  list because than you can kiss good bye to your visitors.

Today i formatted, reinstalled Windows and installed AVG Internet Security, so far it looks great, i’m looking forward to its prestation.

When your using payment processors like paypal than you can never be too safe. It’s better to be safe than sorry, trust me on this.

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  • Lorz - 03 Jul 2008 7PM

    I don’t know why Kaspersky doesn’t alert when opening that page. Maybe other AV take that JavaScript code as a threat. Dunno, but I’m sticking with KIS.