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Offline FreewheelinFrank

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Pest Patrol removes avast! skins
« on: November 19, 2005, 03:13:02 PM »
The latest pest patrol definitions detect ACTSKIN4.OCX as malware, resulting in a 'usigetskin failed' error message on opening the user interface.
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Re: Pest Patrol removes avast! skins
« Reply #1 on: November 19, 2005, 10:38:18 PM »
Pest Patrol is known to generate massive amounts of false positives...
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Re: Pest Patrol removes avast! skins
« Reply #2 on: November 19, 2005, 11:05:43 PM »
Pest Patrol is known to generate massive amounts of false positives...
I thought this software has become better when Computer Associates takes care of it... what a illusion...
The most they promisse, the less you get...  :P
We detect everything... ok, I have listen this before  :P
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Re: Pest Patrol removes avast! skins
« Reply #3 on: November 20, 2005, 12:07:11 PM »
This is one false positive: hardly a massive amount.
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