DLSS Posted December 17, 2006 Share Posted December 17, 2006 ok so first avast gave a false positive on thight vnc so in the live show they're tlking bout steghide , so i go and try and download it adn longbehold avast pops up an tells me its a trojan WTF ?? i kno this cant be thrue , but wots up with avast and all the friggin false positives ?? i'm starting to feel like i'm useing friggin norton ! this seriously is pissing me off .... </rant> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deveant Posted December 17, 2006 Share Posted December 17, 2006 hmm i know that VNC is now picked up by a lot of virus scanners now because it is commonly used in payloads, though most will come up with it was a major threat but prompt for solution, we as somethink like sub7 is isntantly killed. As for steghide, yeah i was blocked for that one to T_T, im thinking it has somethink to do with you being able to engolth malicios code into the files, since avast has picked me up on most of the binders that i use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted December 17, 2006 Share Posted December 17, 2006 Switch to AVG Free 7.5 or use a VM to download stuff? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
debianuser Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 Switch to AVG Free 7.5 or use a VM to download stuff? Well AVG free is stopping next year? any other recommendation of free AV? OR -- Better idea... switch to Linux :-D... or FreeBSD (that was for Vako ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 Ahh... digg is in full effect I see. No, they just stopped the 7.1 version, the new version, 7.5, has replaced it and AVG will remain free. http://www.grisoft.com/doc/36704 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burn Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 I've always used AVG and I've really liked it. It's very simple, it has real-time protection, and it's ALWAYS found software that I knew was bad (even when downloading zip files). However, I'm always on the lookout for something better so when I built my new box I installed Avast. I used it for about 4 months or so and there's not much about it that I like. I just recently uninstalled it and switched back to AVG. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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