Hello. I am a pretty inquisitive person, and when me and my friend got talking about virus scanners and such, I decided to show her how AVG detects (as it did once for me when I invoked it) double file extensions. So I tried giving a file two or more extensions and AVG did not bat an eyelid. However, it did before on my Windows 2000 system some months ago. Its the latest version, 7.5 Other than that my system works flawlessly. Any clues? There is one subtle yet vital difference between opinion and fact; and the bigger man is he who can whole-heartedly admit this.

No authoritative answer here really but I think you may not have experienced this abnormality if you ran the premium AVG edition (not the free AVG). i_XpUser

I ran the free one both times. Call it my inquisitive nature. Thank you for replying -- have a nice day. There is one subtle yet vital difference between opinion and fact; and the bigger man is he who can whole-heartedly admit this.

As you probably know, some viral file attachments appear with a double file extension. This is to fool those who don't show all file extensions into thinking they safe. For example: "file.jpg.pif" would show as just "file.jpg" which looks like a harmless picture. Really it is a pif file named "file.jpg" My guess is that AVG only finds double file extensions which are on their data base as known viral attachments, or it may be that they have to take a specific form such as a program file. Another possibility is that your email client is not allowing certain file extensions to be downloaded (eg programs such as .pif .bat .exe). I don't know for cert but the above are my best guesses. DerekW

perhaps, and thanks both of you. Anyway I shall think about this more tomorrow (its hardly life and death anyway) as it is late here in Scotland. Night everyone. There is one subtle yet vital difference between opinion and fact; and the bigger man is he who can whole-heartedly admit this.

Hello Scotland, and greetings from New England. I've been using the (free) AVG for about a year now and I'm very pleased with it. I was using McAfee for a few years but got rid of it when they released (or forced)their new all-in-one security package on everyone. Anyways, never had any troubles with AVG...and it seems to get new updated definitions very often too.

Me too. I used McAfee, until I sought an alternative. Thankfully, my shutdown time dropped from some 2 minutes to about 10 seconds, for one thing, just by getting AVG instead of McAfee. This was just my inquisitive mind playing tricks on me and to be honest I probably did something different each time. (I am referring to the multiple file extensions thing) There is one subtle yet vital difference between opinion and fact; and the bigger man is he who can whole-heartedly admit this.