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| Thread ID: 105467 | 2009-12-03 04:48:00 | Avast Anti Virus - Dont update! | McRuff (12291) | Press F1 |
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| 836114 | 2009-12-03 20:13:00 | Avast is a worry thats why I use AVG. All antiviruses can have false positives. Mine lately keeps whinging about some files in my Half Life 2 folder, and I reinstalled it just in case. I told it to ignore it from now on, can't be bothered emailing NOD32 about it, it will sort itself with whatever def update next. AVG is no different. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 836115 | 2009-12-03 20:15:00 | For anyone having the problems with files damaged / deleted by Avast - heres their repair article (forum.avast.com) At least they did a good screwup and got most OS's :D LOL if you are gonna get fired you may as well screw up properly?? |
Gobe1 (6290) | ||
| 836116 | 2009-12-03 20:32:00 | I think they will find that people are going to have bigger problems with their computers than a few false positive .exe's in the virus vault, this episode completely trashed my operating system. | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 836117 | 2009-12-03 20:41:00 | May I assume that it is safe to turn ON the automatic update now? | bk T (215) | ||
| 836118 | 2009-12-03 20:52:00 | Yes it is now safe to resume auto updates. The latest signature file has fixed the problem | McRuff (12291) | ||
| 836119 | 2009-12-03 22:19:00 | Geez. had a lady ring me about this. All it did was stick her usage monitor .exe and 2 spybot files in the vault. Simple matter of restoring them back out. Certainly didn't flag any system files or anything. A big non-event so far really. Took me about 2 minutes to show her how to retrieve from the vault then we had a nice chat, cup of tea and walk round the garden. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 836120 | 2009-12-04 01:32:00 | So - it was a real problem, and not something I did!!!! I finally ditched Avast (one hell of a job) and am now running MS Security Essentials. Is there any explanation for what happened? Ah - I have just seen the link to Avast's explanation. |
Jayess64 (8703) | ||
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