Posted on 05/26/2008 5:03:20 PM PDT by cva66snipe
Is anyone else using Avast Free Virus Scan getting a Trojan alert on Super Anti Syyware.exe command? I'm getting it on the boot up scan and Avast has no way of marking it a false positive. Warning shows Win32: Trogan-Gen with no anme associated except the Spyware program.
I downloaded the paid version of SpyBlaster and quit using it. I rely solely on AVG (it has everything) and have had no problem with it. I have 4GB Ram XPS 720 on broadband. Sorry for your dial-up.
A new thing AVG does is it puts a nice green checkmark beside safe Google hits you might want to open to indicate they are safe.
Hey Mark,
I just updated my Avast (to ver. 4.8.1201) and upon restart, it flagged my Superantispyware as a Trojan. I didn’t find anything on the Avast website so I sent them an email.
I’m also not sure if it is a false hit or a valid flag. I’ve been running Avast for over a year with no problems. This might not amount to much but two weeks prior, I got hit with the AWOLA virus. YES, Avast was installed and running. After researching and installing Superantispyware, I was able to eradicate the AWOLA virus.
I guess we will see how this turns out, but conspircy theorists would have a field day with this one.
Why would I, (why the xxxx Should I) remove superantispyware when it eradicated an attack that Avast didn’t detect OR even prove a remedy for.
rant for now,
skevin
Well, I was able to install the newest version of Solarwinds tftp server. I would imagine that it’s just a false positive.
Thanks and good luck.
Mark
Anti-virus software is becoming so bloated and inefficient, it is becoming a security risk itself. The situation will only get worse on Windows as the footprint of AV software continues to grow.
As other OS grow attacks on them too will become more common. With Windows though there has to be a balance as to what is practical and what becomes overkill. Hackers and Virus creator simply look for large targets. The largest user target now is WINDOWS.
BTW Micro Trend also gave my Firefox Browser a fit. Seems I had several problems and Micro Trend created quite a lot of them. I'd like to have Super anti-spyware back but SPYBOT is doing a pretty good job keeping things out.
It's not that simple. They look first for the targets with weak security. The weakest target is WINDOWS.
It is that simple. Nobody writes a virus that doesn't have anywhere to replicate to.
Windows is so easy to attack, it's almost trivial. Why waste a bunch of time in a futile effort to write an effective virus for Linux or Mac OS X when Windows is so easy to infect?
Why wast time in a futile effort to write a virus that's going to have maybe one chance in a million connections of finding something it can infect?
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