I got infected last week. AVG did not detect it. Think it came imbedded in an image file in an email.
Downloaded Prevxx and it found it, ended up totally scrubbing the machine and reinstalling everything.
Can’t remember the virus name but it was nasty. NETSTAT showed I was hijacked by about 20-30 other computers.
Bassturds!!
Avg doesn’t detect spyware, only viruses. Download the AVG spyware scanner, or something like spysweeper. They both run in the background like AVG.
The full featured AVG spyware program is NOT free, but does run with some features disabled in the free version. It switches to that mode after the 30 day full featured trial is over.
Which ever you may choose, it helps catch those few spyware programs that find there way on your system, which certainly can act like a virus.
Personaly I use spysweeper which seems to run smoother than the AVG program, although when i tried the avg program it was just released so they may have fixed the glitches by now. AVG antivirus is the best there is (and free) IMHO.