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No more Ewido Anti-Spyware -> now it's AVG Anti-Spyware
« on: October 02, 2006, 10:28:05 PM »
Hello folks  ;D

Ewido Anti-Spyware is no longer available for download from Ewido's web site. From now on it's AVG Anti-Spyware. Although Ewido is no longer available for download the updates will be the same for Ewido and AVG Anti-Spyware.

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AVG Anti-Spyware 7.5 contains the same ewido technology, but with some further enhanced features:

Features of AVG Anti-Spyware
      NEW Highly improved cleaning
      NEW Lower resource usage
      NEW Additional languages supported
      NEW Updated user interface
      Shredder for secure file deletion
      XP Antispy

Source: www.ewido.net

so, from now on, if a user is not able to remove a virus or... we will have to suggest to him to use AVG Anti-Spyware  :P ::)
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Re: No more Ewido Anti-Spyware -> now it's AVG Anti-Spyware
« Reply #1 on: October 03, 2006, 12:23:19 AM »
We could still call it Ewido - a.k.a, avgas (or avg anti-spyware), the same as the download file. Strange how ewido 4.0 has jumped to avg anti-spyware 7.5 ;D

You can download the avg anti-spyware form the ewido site still though.
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Re: No more Ewido Anti-Spyware -> now it's AVG Anti-Spyware
« Reply #2 on: October 03, 2006, 04:35:57 AM »
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We could still call it Ewido - a.k.a, avgas
Hopefully it hasn't picked up an odor along the way.... ;D ;D
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Re: No more Ewido Anti-Spyware -> now it's AVG Anti-Spyware
« Reply #3 on: October 03, 2006, 06:00:13 AM »
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so, from now on, if a user is not able to remove a virus or... we will have to suggest to him to use AVG Anti-Spyware  :P ::)

Well yes... I don't see anything wrong in doing that. It's not like we are working for Alwil so we have to see all others as competition. We have to be objective, always. Computer security is in the first place. I don't care if my shield wears avast! name or AVG. If it's good, it's good... period.

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Re: No more Ewido Anti-Spyware -> now it's AVG Anti-Spyware
« Reply #4 on: October 03, 2006, 02:22:35 PM »
Fully compatible with avast! and many other AV programs.


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Re: No more Ewido Anti-Spyware -> now it's AVG Anti-Spyware
« Reply #5 on: October 03, 2006, 02:24:01 PM »
I don't mind what it is either, I have downloaded the avg anti-spyware 7.5 setup file to see what improvements they talk about. I had hoped to install it in parallel and test together but, no joy it detects the presence of Ewido 4.0 (same guard.exe service, etc.) and prompts you to uninstall it and reboot.

My first scan with it took just over 9 minutes but, I forgot to pause the standard shield for that scan, so not much of an overhead with avast looking over its shoulder.
I have done another scan with standard shield paused and avgas 7.5 seems slightly slower for the same scan settings in ewido 4.0 almost 8 minutes against just over 6 previously with ewido 4.0.
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Re: No more Ewido Anti-Spyware -> now it's AVG Anti-Spyware
« Reply #6 on: October 03, 2006, 02:28:32 PM »
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My first scan with it took just over 9 minutes but, I forgot to pause the standard shield for that scan, so not much of an overhead with avast looking over its shoulder.
I have done another scan with standard shield paused and avgas 7.5 seems slightly slower for the same scan settings in ewido 4.0 almost 8 minutes against just over 6 previously with ewido 4.0.
Considering the increase in items it checks for vs the older version, there's bound to be an increase in the time it takes to do a scan.  :)
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Re: No more Ewido Anti-Spyware -> now it's AVG Anti-Spyware
« Reply #7 on: October 03, 2006, 03:00:43 PM »
Which is basically what I said to see what the effects of these improvements are. In this case it slows the overall scan duration (note I did say 'slightly slower') nothing I'm concerned about, I don't sit at my computer waiting for it to finish.
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Re: No more Ewido Anti-Spyware -> now it's AVG Anti-Spyware
« Reply #8 on: October 04, 2006, 01:14:57 AM »
My first scan with it took just over 9 minutes but, I forgot to pause the standard shield for that scan, so not much of an overhead with avast looking over its shoulder.
I have done another scan with standard shield paused and avgas 7.5 seems slightly slower for the same scan settings in ewido 4.0 almost 8 minutes against just over 6 previously with ewido 4.0.


David, I'm curious about your scan times. My full scan takes over an hour. The fast scan takes 30 minutes. About the same for both the now deleted Ewido 4.0, and the newly installed AVG 7.5. I normally run it without pausing the standard shield, but the times are virtually the same if I do. What's your secret?

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Using 11 gigs on a 60 gig hard drive. Like you, I don't sit in front of the computer waiting for it to finish, so it's no big deal. Just curious.
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Re: No more Ewido Anti-Spyware -> now it's AVG Anti-Spyware
« Reply #9 on: October 04, 2006, 04:02:32 AM »
why such a huge version jump?
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Re: No more Ewido Anti-Spyware -> now it's AVG Anti-Spyware
« Reply #10 on: October 04, 2006, 09:51:45 AM »
I uninstalled Ewido 4.0 and installed AVG antispyware 7.5.
When I tried to do a full scan my computer froze.  I tried Ctrl, Alt and Delete, but nothing happened so I had to manually shut down and start the computer again.  This happened twice with Full Scan. Quick Scan worked fine.
I had turned off Standard Shield  in Avast.
I used Roll Back to put my hard drive into the state it was before AVG installation,  and now don't know if I should install it again or go back to Ewido.
Any one else have this problem ???

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Re: No more Ewido Anti-Spyware -> now it's AVG Anti-Spyware
« Reply #11 on: October 04, 2006, 09:56:50 AM »
Hi roro,

Yes, I've had it several times with Ewido. It locks up while scanning virtual memory and only a power off will fix it. I don't think it's a problem with the new version, which just seems to be re-branding.

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Purely to integrate with AVG: 7.5 is the version number of the new beta which includes anti-spyware scanning.
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Re: No more Ewido Anti-Spyware -> now it's AVG Anti-Spyware
« Reply #12 on: October 04, 2006, 10:01:18 AM »
Frank,
It never happened with Ewido 4.0, which made me wonder.  Can I  fix this in AVG 7.5 or should I go back to Ewido until the beta is upgraded.

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Re: No more Ewido Anti-Spyware -> now it's AVG Anti-Spyware
« Reply #13 on: October 04, 2006, 10:09:52 AM »
Did you notice if the same thing happened to you? Was the program scanning memory at the time, and did it get stuck while scanning virtual memory, something like this:

VM_xxxxxx?

If so, I don't think it's anything to do with the upgrade.
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Re: No more Ewido Anti-Spyware -> now it's AVG Anti-Spyware
« Reply #14 on: October 04, 2006, 10:20:44 AM »
It got stuck right at the beginning and it did have something to do with memory.  I will install it again and see if it reoccurs.

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