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    avg update causes havoc for many users..

    Discussion in 'Security and Anti-Virus Software' started by zfactor, Nov 9, 2008.

  1. zfactor

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    Good old AVG up to it`s tricks again, I am glad i use Avast Now!

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    yep i dont like avg myself and had way to many issues when i trial it the times i did.. never again for me
     
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    Luckily it has been fixed immediately... The trouble is, *every* AV has false detections from time to time... including mentioned Avast (which failed several times during past year in VB100 tests also because of false detections: June 2008 - 2 false positives, April 2008 - 19 wildlist misses, 1 false positive, December 2007 - 1 false positive). I'm afraid that there will never be a false-positive-free antivirus in this world...
     
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    not the fp's that bothered me with avg it was always issues with the program itself.. whether it be not updating right or whatever it was it was always something when i was testing it...
     
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    John, but it was the SpyBot "immunization" issue, right? I mean, this sw has put spyware info into registry... and, surprise, antivirus found them. :rolleyes: (it's not detected anymore afaik anyway.)
     
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    Nobody else mentioned a problem with there anti-virus , with spybots immunization, only Avg?

    Anyway`s it was Advanced Windows Care i was using not spybot.

    They were still false positives.

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    what i meant to say: these "immunization" registry items had real malware code in them, and therefore they were detected as malware. some ways of storing the malware code are a bit unhappy, in other words. with unhappy results... no matter how we call it in the end (i really don't want to start a flame), it's good to understand how it works and what are roots of similar issues.
     
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