More rambling on the new netbook and angst for AVG.
So I got all the software installed that I wanted. Microsoft Office was easily copied to a SD card and installed from that without a problem. I was please that the internal ballistics software I had been using, that would not run under the 64-bit Vista, runs just fine on this machine. It sort of sucked to have to do my load developments at work on my work computer. The only other software I installed was Notepad++, Filezilla, and Photofiltre.
I did run into one problem. I had installed the free version of AVG Friday night. It was the second thing I did. First I downloaded Firefox and installed it. Removed the trial version of Norton and then installed AVG. Saturday afternoon the AVG resident shield returns a likely virus on a svchost.exe. I did a little research and it appeared I might have gotten a false positive. As a backup to AVG I installed Malwarebytes and just after installing it AVG reports the same virus (win32/Heur) was infecting a file that was just installed by Malwarebytes. This seemed unlikely to me and further research seems to indicated that some programs like Malwarebytes can sometimes return false positive on files inoculated by them against certain types of virus. Apparently AVG cannot tell the difference between this type of virus or a file inoculated against that virus.
I hope this is the case I am not sure how I would have gotten a real virus with how little surfing I had done. Most of the time spent on the system was installing software. I don't know where it would have come from. Later scans have come up clean with both AVG and Malwarebytes. Any other suggestion on how to make sure the system is clean would be appreciated.
Other than that one scare the system has been pretty good. I am looking forward to putting it to work this week on some proposals at work.