Guest apistomaster Posted June 20, 2008 Posted June 20, 2008 Within the next week, my subscriptions to AVAST Home Edition and SpyNoMore expire. In the entire past year AVAST has never detected a virus...until it was set to expire. Then my Laptop, a Dell Inspiron E1505, went off like a a 4TH of July fireworks display and triumphantly declared it had found malware/virus? What was the dire warning declaring it had found? It found my SpyNoMore. 1. I thought this version of AVAST was a passive system requiring manual scans only. 2. SpyNoMore is pretty widely used and to have AVAST "coincidentally" find it's first "Virus" in a year and identifying it as SpyNoMore seems a rather unsophisticated attempt to emphasize how diligent the AVAST is watching out for my best interests. Does it strike anyone else that this scenario is more than a bit odd?
Guest smlunatick Posted June 20, 2008 Posted June 20, 2008 Re: Questionable biz practices by security software makers On Jun 20, 3:59 pm, apistomaster <apistomas...@clearwire.net> wrote: > Within the next week, my subscriptions to AVAST Home Edition and > SpyNoMore expire. > In the entire past year AVAST has never detected a virus...until it > was set to expire. Then my Laptop, a Dell Inspiron E1505, went off > like a a 4TH of July fireworks display and triumphantly declared it > had found malware/virus? What was the dire warning declaring it had > found? > > It found my SpyNoMore. > > 1. I thought this version of AVAST was a passive system requiring > manual scans only. > 2. SpyNoMore is pretty widely used and to have AVAST "coincidentally" > find it's first "Virus" in a year and identifying it as SpyNoMore > seems a rather unsophisticated attempt to emphasize how diligent the > AVAST is watching out for my best interests. > > Does it strike anyone else that this scenario is more than a bit odd? If you were to do a search on the Internet, you will find that Spynomore was previously listed on as a rogue (a spyware category) program. Unfortunately, the detection routine for other anti-virus / anti-spyware can be "flawed."
Guest Hiram B Culpeper Posted June 20, 2008 Posted June 20, 2008 Re: Questionable biz practices by security software makers "apistomaster" <apistomaster@clearwire.net> wrote in message news:7b99933d-c287-4c23-be10-b78b111f6aa8@p25g2000pri.googlegroups.com... > Within the next week, my subscriptions to AVAST Home Edition and > SpyNoMore expire. > In the entire past year AVAST has never detected a virus...until it > was set to expire. Then my Laptop, a Dell Inspiron E1505, went off > like a a 4TH of July fireworks display and triumphantly declared it > had found malware/virus? What was the dire warning declaring it had > found? > > It found my SpyNoMore. > > 1. I thought this version of AVAST was a passive system requiring > manual scans only. > 2. SpyNoMore is pretty widely used and to have AVAST "coincidentally" > find it's first "Virus" in a year and identifying it as SpyNoMore > seems a rather unsophisticated attempt to emphasize how diligent the > AVAST is watching out for my best interests. > > Does it strike anyone else that this scenario is more than a bit odd? Forget AVAST and get the free AVG.
Guest db.·.. > Posted June 20, 2008 Posted June 20, 2008 Re: Questionable biz practices by security software makers some fyi's: http://www.microsoft.com/protect/computer/viruses/antivirus.mspx http://search.microsoft.com/results.aspx?form=MSHOME&setlang=en-us&q=antivirus&mkt=en-us ps: i would not recommend nav. -- db·´¯`·...¸><)))º> "apistomaster" <apistomaster@clearwire.net> wrote in message news:7b99933d-c287-4c23-be10-b78b111f6aa8@p25g2000pri.googlegroups.com... > Within the next week, my subscriptions to AVAST Home Edition and > SpyNoMore expire. > In the entire past year AVAST has never detected a virus...until it > was set to expire. Then my Laptop, a Dell Inspiron E1505, went off > like a a 4TH of July fireworks display and triumphantly declared it > had found malware/virus? What was the dire warning declaring it had > found? > > It found my SpyNoMore. > > 1. I thought this version of AVAST was a passive system requiring > manual scans only. > 2. SpyNoMore is pretty widely used and to have AVAST "coincidentally" > find it's first "Virus" in a year and identifying it as SpyNoMore > seems a rather unsophisticated attempt to emphasize how diligent the > AVAST is watching out for my best interests. > > Does it strike anyone else that this scenario is more than a bit odd?
Guest Spiderman Posted June 20, 2008 Posted June 20, 2008 Re: Questionable biz practices by security software makers That's just a coincidental false-positive. I've used Avast for a couple of years now and it has saved me twice from potential infections. My system has never been infected. While it's true that I use safe browsing habits I can't say the same for my wife and 4 kids. Never heard of SpyNoMore. Spidey "apistomaster" <apistomaster@clearwire.net> wrote in message news:7b99933d-c287-4c23-be10-b78b111f6aa8@p25g2000pri.googlegroups.com... > Within the next week, my subscriptions to AVAST Home Edition and > SpyNoMore expire. > In the entire past year AVAST has never detected a virus...until it > was set to expire. Then my Laptop, a Dell Inspiron E1505, went off > like a a 4TH of July fireworks display and triumphantly declared it > had found malware/virus? What was the dire warning declaring it had > found? > > It found my SpyNoMore. > > 1. I thought this version of AVAST was a passive system requiring > manual scans only. > 2. SpyNoMore is pretty widely used and to have AVAST "coincidentally" > find it's first "Virus" in a year and identifying it as SpyNoMore > seems a rather unsophisticated attempt to emphasize how diligent the > AVAST is watching out for my best interests. > > Does it strike anyone else that this scenario is more than a bit odd?
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