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Avast Antivirus reporting false positives in latest update
Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2009 11:44 pm
by Zantor
Hey, folks. I don't know how many people here use Avast Antivirus, but when I updated today, it reported a false positive in Skype.
There is an article about this on DSL Reports:
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/The- ... lem-105773
I thought I'd provide people with the heads-up so that they/you don't get too confused. The article says that false positives were also reported in Spybot Search & Destroy, and other programs.
Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 12:20 am
by S13driftAZ
Just to throw this out there...
On planetdescent.net, there was a thread about Spybot Search and Destroy reporting a false positive when scanning vortex....
http://www.planetdescent.net/index.php?topic=187.0
Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 12:50 am
by Zantor
I'm aware of that; I'm registered on PD.net, too.
Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 1:56 am
by Sirius
Arrrr!
...anyway, I have both that and Skype on the same machine and it pretty much updates itself whenever it wants. Curiously I haven't had that come up... yet. Maybe I need to update Skype.
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Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 11:23 am
by S13driftAZ
Zantor wrote:I'm aware of that; I'm registered on PD.net, too.
lol, Im aware of that too. It seemed like a convenient thread to tell everyone else in.
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Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 1:22 pm
by Grendel
Zantor wrote:I'm aware of that; I'm registered on PD.net, too.
He has a valid point -- there are other people besides you reading this forum that aren't registered at PD.
False positives are going on w/ all AV programs, hardly something to write home about. AntiVir is usually pretty quick to fix these, prefer it over Avast.
Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 4:39 pm
by TigerRaptor
I was wondering what was up with Avast the other day. It went crazy after I fired up A-squared. But I figured it was a false positive so I just ignored it.
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Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 6:00 pm
by Duper
TigerRaptorFX wrote:I was wondering what was up with Avast the other day. It went crazy after I fired up A-squared. But I figured it was a false positive so I just ignored it.
Does that mean you were almost pregnant??
Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 6:09 pm
by Krom
Yeah, I've seen a few false positives before. A quick google search usually tells you if its a false positive or not.
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Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 6:18 pm
by TigerRaptor
Duper wrote:TigerRaptorFX wrote:I was wondering what was up with Avast the other day. It went crazy after I fired up A-squared. But I figured it was a false positive so I just ignored it.
Does that mean you were almost pregnant??
No. But I'm sure that's the way you look after the holidays. Must be from all that eggnog you drink.
