Okay I have confirmed a conflict between AVG and Spyware Blaster. When you enable all protection for Spyware Blaster and do a scan with the new AVG 8.0 Free Edition AVG will find a bunch of spyware that really isn't spyware, but it actually items that Spyware Blaster is blocking or protecting you against. I confirmed this by going ahead and removing the items AVG found and then went into Spyware Blaster and 190 items had protection disabled. I enabled all protection and did a scan with AVG the same items came back. Well I removed them again to confirm my suspision and went back into Spyware Blaster and 190 items disabled again. This confirms a conflict between AVG and Spyware Blaster. Has anyone had this problem yet? Also note there is no way to get in touch with support about this issue cause AVG people don't support the free version. Anyone using a real version if you can let them know about this maybe the problem will get solved.
I have confirmed that AVG also conflicts with SpyBot Search and Destroy. AVG disables 30 items in Spybot Search and Destroy Immunization list when you clean up what it finds. And no I'm not going to get rid of AVG because I can't afford anything else right now.
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1 yap_jp // May 13, 2008
See this explanation http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic143321.html
2 Sidharth M // May 13, 2008
you should uninstall avg or reinstall windows xp
3 jibbarjabar // May 13, 2008
It is a known issue.
The new AVG picks up some registry entries that SWB sets "kill-bits" for to block the use of some Active-X controls that have been known to be malicious.
To me, this is just another good reason to NOT use AVG (free) anti-virus. It is wildly popular with n00bs, children, and the naive but has historically had the lowest virus detection rate of all the popular free anti-virus programs.
YMMV.
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