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Author Topic: Did Avast actually pick something up or is this a false positive?  (Read 442 times)

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So I was running a scan with Avast and had a few files flagged up
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But I'm not sure if they're actually viruses/malware? Like my machine is behaving normally and I've as far as I know not done anything to potentially compromise my machine. And they look to me to be normal system files.

I've had false positives before, like they once flagged up the installer file for WoW
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Re: Did Avast actually pick something up or is this a false positive?
« Reply #1 on: February 14, 2015, 06:49:40 AM »
No idea. Hopefully someone with a clue will see this!
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Re: Did Avast actually pick something up or is this a false positive?
« Reply #2 on: February 14, 2015, 09:49:35 AM »
That's a false positive, youre fine.

Id drop Avast like a rock though, its not good at what its supposed to do.
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Re: Did Avast actually pick something up or is this a false positive?
« Reply #3 on: February 15, 2015, 10:05:50 AM »
That's a false positive, youre fine.

Id drop Avast like a rock though, its not good at what its supposed to do.
Any recommendations? Before avast I had avg but got fed up with the fact that I couldn't disable that 'linkjacking' safe search thing
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Re: Did Avast actually pick something up or is this a false positive?
« Reply #4 on: February 15, 2015, 12:03:56 PM »
We use the Windows Security Essentials now, it's pretty decent.
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Re: Did Avast actually pick something up or is this a false positive?
« Reply #5 on: February 16, 2015, 07:41:14 AM »
Theres a free windows one that's half decent--I think it may be what Kiwi suggested :)

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Re: Did Avast actually pick something up or is this a false positive?
« Reply #6 on: February 16, 2015, 03:06:02 PM »
I use Comodo Antivirus combo'd with Malwarebytes (which finds threats less than 24 hours old but not older, which is why I put them together), which are both free. :)

 

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