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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: Kobra on June 14, 2004, 08:46:07 PM

Title: Check this out.. LOL
Post by: Kobra on June 14, 2004, 08:46:07 PM

Sounds like someone else found that Avast is pretty decent.   ;)

http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=36340

I've been looking for a new firewall and figured I'd give avast! a whirl. I installed it and right away it found a virus. I deleted the file and didn't really think much of it. Then I gave a quick random scan of a complete folder and was shocked. It bfound over thirty instances of Win32:Hantaner in trusted files including the installation files of MRUblaster, process gaurd free, and kerio personal firewall. How cna this be? I've never had trouble with a virus before. I ran a McAfee Virus scan on the same folder and it found nothing. Is this for real or a mistake?

Title: Re:Check this out.. LOL
Post by: Tipton on June 14, 2004, 08:55:20 PM

Whats funny is the person also did an online scan with McAfee and it found nothing. So one of the other posters just assumes it is a false positive by Avast!

Douglas