Do I Really Need an Antivirus Program?

> > ... -- for instance Adobe
> > Acrobat 8.1 cannot convert webpages to PDF documents when antivirus programs
> > are installed
>
>
> That is completely untrue.

Be careful what you proclaim as "completely untrue."

Whenever I have had AVG installed (my latest antivirus trial run), for
example, Adobe Acrobat would go through the regular process of converting a
webpage to a PDF document; however, it would never actually produce the
document itself -- it was never able to actually bring anything to fruition
(and there was no PDF file created in the location I chose as a part of that
process). It's like the computer was working very hard to bring about...
absolutely nothing.

I contacted Adobe and went through 30 minutes of technical support
step-by-step. Nothing resolved the program... with the exception of the
removal of AVG.

Once AVG was removed, everything functioned perfectly with Acrobat.

I am certainly not saying that my experience is common. But it is very much
true.

husky86 wrote:
>>> ... -- for instance Adobe
>>> Acrobat 8.1 cannot convert webpages to PDF documents when antivirus programs
>>> are installed
>>
>> That is completely untrue.
>
> Be careful what you proclaim as "completely untrue."
>
> Whenever I have had AVG installed (my latest antivirus trial run), for
> example, Adobe Acrobat would go through the regular process of converting a
> webpage to a PDF document; however, it would never actually produce the
> document itself -- it was never able to actually bring anything to fruition
> (and there was no PDF file created in the location I chose as a part of that
> process). It's like the computer was working very hard to bring about...
> absolutely nothing.
>
> I contacted Adobe and went through 30 minutes of technical support
> step-by-step. Nothing resolved the program... with the exception of the
> removal of AVG.
>
> Once AVG was removed, everything functioned perfectly with Acrobat.
>
> I am certainly not saying that my experience is common. But it is very much
> true.


True? Maybe. You've completely changed your story, now. Your
original post stated that whenever any antivirus application was
installed, Acrobat failed. Now you admit that it was just one brief
incompatibility with only one anti-virus product. That's quite a
significant omission.

Which story are we to believe?


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snooker416;803966 Wrote:
> On Aug 13, 5:16*pm, Ringmaster <big...@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Because my computer has never gave me one problem . All my data is
> there . All my programs work good . I have no problems at all . If I
> had a virus wouldn't I notice something odd ?

not necessarily, you could have a trojan waiting for you to open your
bank account, then it send your credit card and bank info to the
creator.

a friend of yours that wants to know your email password could have
sent you a trojan attached to a document, to retried your password and
stuff.


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digital_sc4rz

Bruce,

I'm very grateful for all the extensive information you have provided. You
have given me a lot to think about.

But I wonder what is the cause of your excessively acerbic attitude...?

AVG was only the latest antivirus experiment. I've had problems with
previous antivirus programs causing problems with Adobe Acrobat; AVG was not
exclusive in this regard. I simply didn't feel like getting into all of the
individual problems with previous antivirus programs. I supposed -- perhaps
wrongly, in your case -- that this would become rather tedious.

Next time I will attempt to be more encyclopedic. My humblest apologies.

By the way, the antivirus program preceding AVG (and causing similar
problems) was Avast. It caused the exact same problems as AVG: Acrobat would
go into this long, drawn out process of creating a PDF file from a webpage.
But ultimately nothing was produced.

"Bruce Chambers" wrote:

> husky86 wrote:
> >>> ... -- for instance Adobe
> >>> Acrobat 8.1 cannot convert webpages to PDF documents when antivirus programs
> >>> are installed
> >>
> >> That is completely untrue.
> >
> > Be careful what you proclaim as "completely untrue."
> >
> > Whenever I have had AVG installed (my latest antivirus trial run), for
> > example, Adobe Acrobat would go through the regular process of converting a
> > webpage to a PDF document; however, it would never actually produce the
> > document itself -- it was never able to actually bring anything to fruition
> > (and there was no PDF file created in the location I chose as a part of that
> > process). It's like the computer was working very hard to bring about...
> > absolutely nothing.
> >
> > I contacted Adobe and went through 30 minutes of technical support
> > step-by-step. Nothing resolved the program... with the exception of the
> > removal of AVG.
> >
> > Once AVG was removed, everything functioned perfectly with Acrobat.
> >
> > I am certainly not saying that my experience is common. But it is very much
> > true.
>
>
> True? Maybe. You've completely changed your story, now. Your
> original post stated that whenever any antivirus application was
> installed, Acrobat failed. Now you admit that it was just one brief
> incompatibility with only one anti-virus product. That's quite a
> significant omission.
>
> Which story are we to believe?
>
>
> --
>
> Bruce Chambers
>
> Help us help you:
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/555375
>
> They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin
>
> Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. ~Bertrand Russell
>
> The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has
> killed a great many philosophers.
> ~ Denis Diderot
>

Hi,

For covert the current web page to PDF file problem, I'm not sure if you
have tried to use File/Print and then select installed Adobe PDF printer
method.

My own experience is that the IE add-on doesn't always work well for some
reason, and I'm not sure whose fault it is, but using File/Print function
almost always work.

Hope this helps.

"husky86" <husky86@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:458663B0-E968-4B54-815E-AB59458292C8@microsoft.com...
>I have just about had it with all antivirus programs. They slow down my
> system, they cause problems with individual programs -- for instance Adobe
> Acrobat 8.1 cannot convert webpages to PDF documents when antivirus
> programs
> are installed -- and in general they just seem to make my computing
> experience much more of a headache.
>
> I have tried Norton, AVG, Avast, McAffee, and others (free and full-paid
> editions). Once I remove any of these programs from my system, it's like
> the
> sun has come out, the rain and clouds have gone away, and everything
> functions beautifully.
>
> I know that this is an age-old question (at least in computer terms), but
> do
> I really need an antivirus program running on my system?
>
> Especially if I don't open any attachments from any known or unknown
> senders, do I really need to have an antivirus program running in the
> background? Is it really essential?
>
> Many thanks for any and all comments!
>
> (I'm running Windows Vista Ultimate, by the way, with Microsoft Office
> 2007,
> and Firefox 3 as my web browser.)