Termyn8or
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I got AVG 8.5 on my main PC and it has no problem here. Of course I have no idea what it's doing, if anything. I am always downloading on it, and it acts as a server for all the other PCs on my network. Never a peep out of it. Maybe I should pruposely download a virus to see if it even works. It's easy, just find a file that says "DVD rip full length movie" and the filesize is only like 30KB.
Now what I do get on this PC which has a spybot of some sort on it (not sure what, inherited this one) on the main page where it wants to install flash. That's what I got the other PC(s) for, I think it would be a popup but it is blocked. My main PC is fully loaded with just about all the major media players like VLC and whatever. That's why I usually don't watch the videos here, I have to go in the other room. Hmmm, I wonder if I sign both PCs on if I would show up twice in the active users list.......
At any rate, AVG uses heiruistic analysis, which means it does not rely on a list. It detects anything that even smells like it could be a virus. (I bet if you could run it before installing Windows it would pop up with a window indicating a strong threat :-)). However there should be an option to allow for any given instance. I would say allow it. I have been here for years, sometimes on PCs that rode totally bareback, I mean no protection at all. All my PC problems back then were eventually traced back to a bad motherboard. CM had nothing to do with it.
So I would say go ahead and let CM shove whatever it wants down your cache's throat. And clearing the cache is much overrated. When we had Win 95, on a 486 and had a whopping 3.2GB harddrive, clearing the cache might be a good thing, but it is simply unnecessary now. Additionally you can't really clear the cache. You can set the cache even to 0KB and it sits there acting like it's deleting files, but it's not. Go back and give it cache space subsequently and the files reappear. It undeletes them. Amazingly they reappear immediately even though it seemed to take some time to delete them.
Deleting cookies is similarly overrated, where did you think the cookies came from ? Where you went on the net. You go back and there's your cookie. The only time any of the old time methods really work is when there is an error in the cache or cookie directory. That happens alot more rarely now with reliable internet service. This was not so true when we were on those 56K modems and crap like that. Speaking of 56K modems, I was king of getting them faster. All useless knowledge now, but it was cool. Right now with the speeds I get there is no need for a cache at all. But cookies are another story. I get on here transparently because of a cookie.
Perhaps going into internet properties you can mark CM as a trusted site, might help might not.
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