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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: amarko5 on October 16, 2006, 07:31:23 PM
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seems like the latest update to xsoftspy (antispyware) sees avast files as a spyware program
can you confirm the files it has found in the included picture, are indeed part of avast please .
as everytime i remove them with xsoftspy then avast skinned interface will not run. ?
http://www.putfile.com/pic.php?img=3719987
as you can see it thinks it's realspy which is a nasty keylogger program
your help would be appreciated in confirming or denying this
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They seem to be false positive according to this thread (http://forum.avast.com/index.php?&topic=24181.0)[/b]. Please make use of the forum search next time. ;)
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Two others are experiencing this problem caused by xoftspy and is most certainly a false positive, a common issue with earlier versions of xoftspy when it was classed as a rogue anti-spyware. It had a chequered history which you can check out, there are many good trustworthy applications out there with no chequered history.
Spyware Warrior - Rogue Anti-Spyware (http://www.spywarewarrior.com/rogue_anti-spyware.htm), Spyware Warrior - Trustworthy Anti-Spyware Products (http://www.spywarewarrior.com/rogue_anti-spyware.htm#trustworthy), some are even free.
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I thank you both ;D
I did look at the last 2 or 3 pages but did not search (doh)
and i am currently looking at the spywarrior site
thanks for the help chaps
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No problem welcome to the forums.
There is lots of good info on the spywarewarrior site not just the rogue anti-spyware info page.