Need some help with AVG

dave32881 · 04-23-2008, 12:38 AM

hi i'm new to this site and I had a few questions on how to completly delete/remove infected files,programs off of my virus vault safely. I ended up downloading a few monitoring programs on my pc(keylogger,and parental control program) to see what other people that are using it are doing.AVG is reconizing it as a trogan and I decided that i want rid of the spyware. I would greatly appreciate any recomendations,thanks

**Cellus** · 04-23-2008, 02:00 PM

It is not uncommon for AV programs to detect various kinds of monitoring software as malicious, as it is not uncommon for people to use such legitimate programs for malicious purposes.

If you are the one who installed it on your computer, then it "should" be okay. Just make sure whatever you download comes from a proper source and that the monitoring software you downloaded was not infact impersonating (ala a real trojan).

dave32881 · 04-24-2008, 09:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Cellus

It is not uncommon for AV programs to detect various kinds of monitoring software as malicious, as it is not uncommon for people to use such legitimate programs for malicious purposes.

If you are the one who installed it on your computer, then it "should" be okay. Just make sure whatever you download comes from a proper source and that the monitoring software you downloaded was not infact impersonating (ala a real trojan).

Hey thanks for the advise, I got the program off of download.com,do you know if that's a proper source and if not maybe you can give me some recomendations on were to look,thanks again,Dave

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dave32881 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 2 OS: win98	Need some help with AVG hi i'm new to this site and I had a few questions on how to completly delete/remove infected files,programs off of my virus vault safely. I ended up downloading a few monitoring programs on my pc(keylogger,and parental control program) to see what other people that are using it are doing.AVG is reconizing it as a trogan and I decided that i want rid of the spyware. I would greatly appreciate any recomendations,thanks

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