- May 26, 2014
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These guys are on the ball. QVM 2 already caught a Trojan Generic Heuer during a full scan. Its a darn good antivirus for free. Its the QVM 2 ENGINE & NOT the 3 ENGINE. Sorry for the mistake.
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Qihoo 360 Total Security QVM 3
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Littlebits
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- May 3, 2011
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Are you sure this is just not another false positive??, if I was you I would upload the sample to VirusTotal or share it in the Malware Hub for investigating.
Enjoy!!
- Jan 22, 2014
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U should not give credit to a AV, u should first learn how these malware make a way to come inside ur PC.
- May 26, 2014
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OK... will check it with virus total. Oh dear, its a false positive.
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- Jul 12, 2014
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It appears it may not be the antivirus you thought it to be.
I would recommend ESET going forward. Lowest amount of False positives of almost all vendors.
Respectfully,
Thanks
I would recommend ESET going forward. Lowest amount of False positives of almost all vendors.
Respectfully,
Thanks
Jumping to assumptions is never a good sign. If the file wasn't malicious prior to the update, and not detected by any of your on-demand scanners. Why would you think it was malware, after the update?
PS: You never know QVM 4 might remove a Windows system file, and may think Windows itself is malware. Haha.
So as already suggested, use online services like VirusTotal or an alternate Task Manager to monitor running processes (ie. Process Explorer).
Do you have a VT result page link?
PS: You never know QVM 4 might remove a Windows system file, and may think Windows itself is malware. Haha.
So as already suggested, use online services like VirusTotal or an alternate Task Manager to monitor running processes (ie. Process Explorer).
Do you have a VT result page link?
- May 26, 2014
- 606
I don't have a VT page link. It was a detection of a app I downloaded. No harm done as I have it white listed. Its still the best AV for free IMO. McAfee just sat there while a nasty program loaded up in the past.Its better a false detection than NO detection.
Littlebits
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- May 3, 2011
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It is kind of strange how everyone in the Malware Hub wants to brag about Qihoo 360 detection on sample packs but when they try it on their own system all it seems to detect is false positives. The main reason I don't recommend it.
Enjoy!!
Enjoy!!
- Jan 22, 2014
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Every AV lead to false postie, nothing new about it. Avira also do false positive so Avast too. Probably it's bitdefender engine detected it as false positive & also it uses outdated bitdefender database most of time, bitdefender probably fix some false positive on their newly release virus database but too bad, qihoo don't get their updates so often. Before enabling bitdefender engine a user must know how to deal with false positive then no problem at all.
Littlebits
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- May 3, 2011
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Excellent advice, I just wonder how long it will take for Qihoo 360 to detect remove or quarantine a system file? leaving Windows unable to boot, I would like to see how that would be easily restored.Jumping to assumptions is never a good sign. If the file wasn't malicious prior to the update, and not detected by any of your on-demand scanners. Why would you think it was malware, after the update?
PS: You never know QVM 4 might remove a Windows system file, and may think Windows itself is malware. Haha.
So as already suggested, use online services like VirusTotal or an alternate Task Manager to monitor running processes (ie. Process Explorer).
Do you have a VT result page link?
All AV's have false positive but the more AV engines used increase the chances of rendering Windows non-operational which is more difficult to fix then repairing damage from an infection.
Enjoy!!
- Jan 22, 2014
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- Apr 3, 2014
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if you are looking for low false positive use MSE, almost non.
as for ESET its a good AV, but it does have quite a lot of false positive.
as for qihoo i still haven't used it on real pc, it is doing an impressing job on testing.
as for ESET its a good AV, but it does have quite a lot of false positive.
as for qihoo i still haven't used it on real pc, it is doing an impressing job on testing.
- Apr 3, 2014
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No, MSE has the Lowest amount of False positives almost non, ESET does driving me bananas with his F P
Excellent advice, I just wonder how long it will take for Qihoo 360 to detect remove or quarantine a system file? leaving Windows unable to boot, I would like to see how that would be easily restored.
All AV's have false positive but the more AV engines used increase the chances of rendering Windows non-operational which is more difficult to fix then repairing damage from an infection.
Enjoy!!
my 3rd week using 360, the first few hours definitely had the hair standing up on the back of my head with the false positives (I didn't know), but with a little bit of patience and tinkering I realized that I can send these files off to qihoo without a browser and see what they say.
360 is definitely good but its not for the impatient. You know what they say, everything good comes in its own time.
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