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    8 Wheels Move The Soul Ashpool's Avatar
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    Avast! loses it

    http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/A...one-Mad-105773

    Avast! is suddenly starting to flag false positives on EVERYTHING in a system. System DLLs, applications that have been installed forever, EVERYTHING.

    Oh man this is gonna suck for Alwil...
    Last edited by Ashpool; 12-03-2009 at 01:58 AM.
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    I remember a few months ago when I was running AVG Free on a Windows 7 RC1 install it started flagging anything related to iTunes as malware. While iTunes is a crappy product, it's not quite malicious.
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    I dumped AVG for Microsoft Security Essentials ... light-weight and highly rated.
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    MSSE is an excellent product that is now free since it was unbundled.
    Get it here.

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    My Avast started doing it after a update, it was saying all my programs were false and were viruses, i got rid of it for MSSE.
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    Another MSSE convert here. All the machines in my home are on it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ashpool View Post
    http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/A...one-Mad-105773

    Avast! is suddenly starting to flag false positives on EVERYTHING in a system. System DLLs, applications that have been installed forever, EVERYTHING.

    Oh man this is gonna suck for Alwil...
    Quote Originally Posted by Nater View Post
    I remember a few months ago when I was running AVG Free on a Windows 7 RC1 install it started flagging anything related to iTunes as malware. While iTunes is a crappy product, it's not quite malicious.
    That's why I use a good premium AV program
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    I used to use Avira, but it flags Zune software all of the time. I also swapped to MSSE. No complaints yet.
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    MSSE convert as well. Nothing was wrong with Avast! when I was using it I just wanted to try something new and I just forgot to switch back for months now .
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    The fact that this was an issue for all of 6 hours seems to have escaped everyones attention.

    12am to 5:50am.

    Quote Originally Posted by Alwil Software Forums
    ast night, avast had a bad false positive issue. At around 12:15am GMT we released VPS update 091203-0 which started flagging hundreds of innocent files as a "Win32: Delf-MZG" Trojan (or, in less common cases, as "Win32:Zbot-MKK"). Among the files affected were high-profile programs produced by Adobe, Realtek sound card drivers, various media players etc.

    We are still investigating the issue, trying to find out what exactly happened and how to make absolutely sure it will not happen again.

    At 5:50am GMT, another VPS update (091203-1) was released, fixing the issue (for both "Win32: Delf-MZG" and "Win32:Zbot-MKK").
    Those who have not used their computers between 12:15am and 5:50am will most likely not be affected.

    If you're still using the bad VPS (091203-0) we recommend to invoke a VPS update immediately.
    Last edited by James; 12-03-2009 at 03:46 PM.

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    you guys are not very faithful to your current religion
    yea i got rid of AVG and trying out MSSE now
    i don't understand why i have AVG on my pc it has never proven to be affective for me..
    Last edited by Ubon94; 12-06-2009 at 11:32 AM.
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