According to independent tests*

all the AV applications have flaws and don't provide 100% coverage. My understanding, though, is that AVG is well regarded.

* - no reference off the top of my head; but User Posted Link regularly reports on these tests.

Posted By: BerlinCanary on May 28th 2008 at 11:10:51

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Self hypnosis....NSFW (General Chat) - mike_the_sphinx, May 28, 06:06:43
- There's a trojan on that page - don't try it out... (n/m) (General Chat) - Arganth, May 28, 07:10:54
  - My AVG passed it a clean. The page that is. (n/m) (General Chat) - mike_the_sphinx, May 28, 07:28:46
    - Weird - Avast pulled it up. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arganth, May 28, 07:36:18
      - so you didnt get to see the page? Funnily enough, AVAST (General Chat) - mike_the_sphinx, May 28, 07:40:30
      - Nope, jut ran it again, it's clear. (n/m) (General Chat) - mike_the_sphinx, May 28, 07:37:38
        
        Found Win32:Small-KED [Trj] (n/m) (General Chat) - Arganth, May 28, 08:00:40
        
        Here. Seems AVAST is the problem. (General Chat) - mike_the_sphinx, May 28, 08:22:24
        
        Or at least follow up with AVAST (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, May 28, 10:06:49
        
        AVG tends to lead from the front. (General Chat) - mike_the_sphinx, May 28, 10:12:05
        
        According to independent tests* (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, May 28, 11:10:51
        
        I doubt that any of the AV programmes are (General Chat) - mike_the_sphinx, May 28, 11:45:19
        
        So.... (General Chat) - Johnny Comecardiff, May 28, 10:22:52
        
        Not at all (General Chat) - mike_the_sphinx, May 28, 10:27:11
        
        Whereas..... (General Chat) - Johnny Comecardiff, May 28, 10:35:51
        
        "Seems" (General Chat) - mike_the_sphinx, May 28, 10:45:02
        
        In which case it's probably picking it up through heuristic checks (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, May 28, 11:13:17
        
        Checked on several AV sites now (General Chat) - mike_the_sphinx, May 28, 11:30:24

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