Avast Anti-Virus Malware alert . . . .

[Perpetua]

I don't know if any of you use this or are experiencing the same issues . . . . every page/thread I visit is triggering this.


It has been bought to Proboards attention if you are:


support.proboards.com/thread/556056/malware-problem?page=1&scrollTo=6394230


ETA: This now seems to be resolved thankfully, jolly irritating it was while it lasted!

[snow]

Not resolved for me Perpetua its driving me nutz this morning every thread I open is setting off the malaware alert.

[Deleted]

Me too

[chrisjw]

Touch wood, I haven't suffered the problem.....................................................yet!!!...



"Life...........is just a bowl of tricks!!!!!!"

[Chrissie]

Just logged in & though i also use Avast, it's all OK here.

[Deleted]

Avast : low detection on viruses ,many false alarm positive , some old versions can damage windows OS , eating a lot of resources. Avast is still one of the programs "very recommended " by many ,unfortunately have to be "not recommended" at this time ...IMO

[sydsut]

Very recommended by many magazine reviewers because it works, actually has a very good detection rate, Isn't a resource hog and never heard of any versions damaging the OS, highly recommended IMO.

[Deleted]

Jul 21, 2015 12:03:28 GMT sydsut said:

Very recommended by many magazine reviewers because it works, actually has a very good detection rate, Isn't a resource hog and never heard of any versions damaging the OS, highly recommended IMO.

Agreed.

Nothing wrong with Avast.

[Deleted]

Although I will add that ESET Endpoint is superb if you don't mind paying.

[Q]

No problems here either, I only ever use Avast and have done so for around 10 years

[sydsut]

Jul 21, 2015 12:19:14 GMT Q said:

No problems here either, I only ever use Avast and have done so for around 10 years

I've been using it for 4-5 years now after becoming disillusioned with AVG's ever increasing nagging. Since then I've never had any problems with any versions.

[Q]

We follow the same path sydsut

[phatfil]

remember av s/w is only worth installing if you run regular scans, installing and relying on the light weight traffic monitors to catch everything is not gonna be worthwhile. consider the active monitors more like doorstaff in a club, they can spot some obvious threats but can also let a fair number thru too. run a weekly scan if you have av s/w installed if not you may as well uninstal it.

malwarebytes or superantispyware may be worthwhile downloading and running regularly too...

[MrDJ]

no problems here using the full version.
in last 3 years had 4 false positives and they were patched within an hour.

[sydsut]

Jul 21, 2015 13:42:26 GMT phatfil said:

remember av s/w is only worth installing if you run regular scans, installing and relying on the light weight traffic monitors to catch everything is not gonna be worthwhile. consider the active monitors more like doorstaff in a club, they can spot some obvious threats but can also let a fair number thru too. run a weekly scan if you have av s/w installed if not you may as well uninstal it.

malwarebytes or superantispyware may be worthwhile downloading and running regularly too...

I have these two installed on the PC as well as Spybot S&D which are run regularly in conjunction with Avast.  Also suggest that a run of Avast's boot-time scan is carried out regularly. It has been many years since I've had a virus, in fact it was in the days if Windows 3.1 that I last had any problem.