Author Topic: AVAST Heuristics - Important ?  (Read 7792 times)

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StyleWarz

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Re: AVAST Heuristics - Important ?
« Reply #15 on: May 28, 2006, 05:38:33 PM »
@IBK
False Positives are very relative, where McAfee/avast!/Kaspersky gave me plenty, Dr. Web didn't cause me a single fp (while they're rated of having a high number of false positives).

It's all about what kind of files and programs the user has on his/her computer. Lots of the files (and some programs) that caused me fp's are strictly confidential and can't be submitted.

IBK

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Re: AVAST Heuristics - Important ?
« Reply #16 on: May 28, 2006, 08:37:07 PM »
It's all about what kind of files and programs the user has on his/her computer. Lots of the files (and some programs) that caused me fp's are strictly confidential and can't be submitted.
if they are so strictly confidential, those files are probably not found often on many PC's of users. If they would be distributed somehow or occur in applications used around the world, the damage/noisance caused by the FP would be bigger & more relevant.