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thats why i stick with MSE, no false positive and at the end of the day avast sending you to install crap
unbelievable.
thx very much for this info
cheers
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avast! Pro Antivirus, Fake Warnings, Softonic Partnership and Free Adware!
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unbelievable.
thx very much for this info
cheers
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All of these big AV names claim thats it's clean.
BitDefender, MSE Emsisoft F-Secure GData Kaspersky McAfee Panda Symantec.
these are well known on top of the av list
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are you saying that gdata is useless because its not and this topic isn't about gdata
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it was gdata and a few other avs that came out the 80's and avast isn't one of them
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Well pointed out. This proves how PUPs are controversial. In the avast! forum link provided in this thread, users complain that the Softonic bundled installer delivers a browser hijacker that is difficult to get rid of. So what is going on? Commercial agreements, or lack thereof, between the parties mentioned here may explain the differences in detection.
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its not that buggy for also you had use their uninstaller to remove any trace of it
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I installed it some months ago to test & it works. Maybe u downloaded corrupt installer file or something was bugging out during ur G data installation.
- Sep 9, 2013
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not really because of these zero day attacks carry by malware you will allways need an av for protectionNo AV is the best AV(i dont say no sec softs
Appguard or ERP or Defensewall + Shadow Defender or Sandboxie ; good luck to infect me.
the malware doesn't even reach my system files
AV, by this i meant the Engine component doesn't protect you from 0-days , since it works on signature that need time to be created. what protect you is the high heuristic of some engines and the others modules.
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Do you receive notifications when you send samples via email?
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What a story avast is supposed to be a security company
I bet even we tell them about this, if they want to say it straight forward, they would likely to say " That's the price for installing a FREE softwares, after all..where we can get the money? besides...it was your own fault to install an adware, we are an antivirus not an anti ad-ware".
Of course removing/preventing ad-ware is not a hard task for most MT members, but for regular users..it's really pain in the ***
Avast is one of the good free av out there, it's really sad to hear this
Thanks for the heads up Huracan, I'd likely to inform my friends about this (most are avast users)
avast is supposed to be a security company I bet even we tell them about this, if they want to say it straight forward, they would likely to say " That's the price for installing a FREE softwares, after all..where we can get the money? besides...it was your own fault to install an adware, we are an antivirus not an anti ad-ware
".Of course removing/preventing ad-ware is not a hard task for most MT members, but for regular users..it's really pain in the ***
Avast is one of the good free av out there, it's really sad to hear this
Thanks for the heads up Huracan, I'd likely to inform my friends about this (most are avast users)
@nsm0220 @Fantasy Can you remain on topic, you can bicker about G-Data over PM, or another thread. Thanks.
@Rahadian Putra This appeared the paid version; Pro Antivirus. Mostly likely to be present from Free to Premier versions.
@Rahadian Putra This appeared the paid version; Pro Antivirus. Mostly likely to be present from Free to Premier versions.
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Do you receive notifications when you send samples via email?
No :/
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one of the best free software I've seen so far that do exactly as it said.Appguard or ERP or Defensewall + Shadow Defender or Sandboxie ; good luck to infect me.
the malware doesn't even reach my system files
AV, by this i meant the Engine component doesn't protect you from 0-days , since it works on signature that need time to be created. what protect you is the high heuristic of some engines and the others modules.
I run around 200 malicious files, including ransomware, blue screens, after force shutdown no system changes made.
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I just tried the exact same situation with the same Avast settings and receive no notifications at all, 7-zip both 32 & 64-bit downloaded successfully and I was able to install both without any notifications from Avast.
So I'm not sure if this applies to all users in different areas of the world.
I'm just using Avast Free latest version for about 5 years at default settings and I have never seen any of these notifications before.
Hopefully Avast hasn't made partnerships with Softonic, this just would not be good at all.
Hopefully I don't start receiving these adware notifications, because it will not take me long to moved to MSE since I already use Windows Defender on my Windows 8 laptop and love it.
Enjoy!!
So I'm not sure if this applies to all users in different areas of the world.
I'm just using Avast Free latest version for about 5 years at default settings and I have never seen any of these notifications before.
Hopefully Avast hasn't made partnerships with Softonic, this just would not be good at all.
Hopefully I don't start receiving these adware notifications, because it will not take me long to moved to MSE since I already use Windows Defender on my Windows 8 laptop and love it.
Enjoy!!
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