Originally Posted by
zawatska
I bought a BRAND NEW computer and installed free version of AVG and got crazy pop ups and false readings. How could I get a virus the FIRST DAY I bought the computer? I had no internet connection yet @ all...
If by popups you mean diagnostics from AVG reporting potential problems, that might be the case. If on the other hand you mean popup ads unrelated to AVG functionality, then they're coming from some other software that got installed on your PC. And if you were seeing them in a browser, why were you running a browser if you weren't on the internet? I'm assuming you installed free AVG from a download... which means you were on the internet long enough to download AVG. It only takes a minute on the internet to get infected, and it wasn't visiting the AVG site that got you infected that first day: think back on everything else you did the first day you had your PC.
As I said before, all anti-malware programs (including AVG) can give false positives; none are 100% perfect, some are better than others. I just installed XP SP 3 on a machine and forgot to deactivate Spybot S&D; it reported strings of false positives during installation.
BTW, adware isn't strictly speaking a virus... that's why you typically run different programs to remove viruses and adware (though increasingly commercial packages are detecting both).