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April 21st, 2009, 02:04 PM
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I use Avast, and just downloaded the firehawk websuite. When I installed it, a trojan was found in the uninstall.exe . Just curious if it's an actual virus or just something Avast is mistakenly seeing as a virus... | 
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April 21st, 2009, 02:27 PM
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Avast is one big mistake.
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April 21st, 2009, 02:39 PM
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That doesn't answer my question lol. Whatever your thoughts on particular anti-virus software may be, I'm more concerned that NGO may have some software with a virus in it and I'm sure they want to know.
On a side note, why don't you like avast? I switched about a year ago from avg, and have had no negative issues with it.... | |
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April 21st, 2009, 02:42 PM
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uninstall.exe with MD5 of a89f5ff2f122379cd05f21a94a2b5b5a isn't a virus. | |
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April 21st, 2009, 02:49 PM
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Thank you for the swift response. It's not the first time Avast has mistaken something for a virus, maybe it is time to look for some new anti-virus software... | |
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April 21st, 2009, 04:09 PM
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I use Avast and have for a long time, the only drawback i have had is the odd false positive for a trojan | |
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April 23rd, 2009, 05:43 AM
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Kaspersky, Bit Defender,and rarely Norton detect false positives. The internet security suite on my computer detects false positives once a month, this is with those internet security programs.
I wounder if there is an internet security suite that does not detect false positives.
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April 23rd, 2009, 06:18 AM
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It is impossible for any scanner with heuristics (read: all of them) to never detect a false positive. Some are better than others, but it happens with all of them. Also, there is nothing wrong with Avast. I would not say it is the best scanner (everyone has wildly different opinions on this), but the price certainly is the best.
You may want to read this: http://vx.netlux.org/lib/static/vdat/epheurs1.htm. You really only need to read the first section (should be #1). | |
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April 24th, 2009, 02:29 AM
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I did some reviewing and am testing out avira. So far, seems to be like avg used to be, non-intrusive, easy on the resources and the reviews said it has an excellent scanner. I'm quite happy so far. | |
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April 24th, 2009, 07:18 AM
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Just get Avira | |
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