Jester - Avast will fire off more false positives than NOD but as many as AVG. When in doubt I suggest using Virus Total a free online scanner (http://www.virustotal.com/). It uses engines from:
AhnLab (V3) Aladdin (eSafe) ALWIL (Avast! Antivirus) Authentium (Command Antivirus) AVG Technologies (AVG) Avira (AntiVir) Bit9 (FileAdvisor) Cat Computer Services (Quick Heal) ClamAV (ClamAV) CA Inc. (Vet) Doctor Web, Ltd. (DrWeb) Eset Software (ESET NOD32) ewido networks (ewido anti-malware) Fortinet (Fortinet) FRISK Software (F-Prot) F-Secure (F-Secure) G DATA Software (GData) Hacksoft (The Hacker) Ikarus Software (Ikarus) Kaspersky Lab (AVP) McAfee (VirusScan) Microsoft (Malware Protection) Norman (Norman Antivirus) Panda Security (Panda Platinum) Prevx (Prevx1) Rising Antivirus (Rising) Secure Computing (Webwasher) BitDefender GmbH. (BitDefender) Sophos (SAV) Sunbelt Software (Antivirus) Symantec (Norton Antivirus) VirusBlokAda (VBA32) Trend Micro (TrendMicro) VirusBuster (VirusBuster) As an example I checked an outstanding program uploaded by you with it. The results can be found here. As you can see 4 antivirus engines flag this file as suspicious or an outright virus which it is NOT. In all cases, as you know, it is downloader beware. :p |
Been using Roboform a long time. In fact, I even (gasp) bought the paid version. I am pretty sure the free version becomes limited use after 30 days, although it's still usable.
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Great idea for a thread!
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Content, Pictures and Download links visible to registered users only. Until Avast causes any system problems or lets a virus through I'll keep using it. I will also use VirusTotal @ http://www.virustotal.com/ to verify anything avast warns about. I have been using this system of verification (for avast warnings) for a couple years and have been virus clean. |
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Not that my opinion counts in this case...aside from being the type that is annoyed by having to even have anything as an anti-virus program and the hassle of setting it up...I'm well pleased with Avast and I've been using it for at least a year now. So basically from a know-nothing standpoint..I am happy. It wasn't hard to set up, it's always on, doesn't cause me problems. I however am not sure I have it set up to watch my Thunderbird because if I remember right, that was a huge PITA. Someday, I might have the patience.
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A sort of review of Windows Vista by people who gave Vista a low rating AND HAD NEVER USED IT! They got to see microsofts new operating systems "Mojave"
The vidoes are here: http://www.mojaveexperiment.com/# Read the results here: http://www.mojaveexperiment.com/facts/ Use it before forming any opinion. This expirement shows why I install, test, evaluate the software I post/review in this thread. |
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