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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: Patrick6789 on May 31, 2020, 04:25:00 AM

Title: What is going on here? Is Avast trustworthy?
Post by: Patrick6789 on May 31, 2020, 04:25:00 AM

Screenshot of a file I scanned with Avast on my laptop, and the same file at the Virustotal website (which includes a scan by Avast) My laptop finds no problems with it, virustotal has 22 hits of detection. How many times have I simply run a scan by Avast on my laptop and just trusted it when it tells me the file is safe?
(https://imgur.com/qix5ewV)https://imgur.com/qix5ewV (https://imgur.com/qix5ewV)

Title: Re: What is going on here? Is Avast trustworthy?
Post by: Simion on May 31, 2020, 05:58:40 AM

The VT analysis is almost two years old. Try rescanning the file.

Title: Re: What is going on here? Is Avast trustworthy?
Post by: Patrick6789 on May 31, 2020, 08:33:39 PM

I reanalyzed the file and it came back with more engines detecting it, but when I scanned it with Avast today, it detected the same malware as mentioned in virustotal, that it didn't catch yesterday.