Did Avast! recently lose its good programmers? I have to agree, the newest software isn't up to what we've come to expect.
I'm a software engineer with 37 years experience, and I've been using Avast! and promoting it (e.g., in my Windows books) since the days of XP x64. Suddenly now the UI is dumbed-down to the point where the dialogs are not resizeable, I can hardly find things, there are multiple different exclusion lists, and I get false positives when I'm developing software or making a backup?
"OMG, he's copying an .EXE file, he must be infected!!!" Makes me wonder whether the Avast! developers use their own product.
And yes, I've submitted the false positives. But nothing has changed.
I need to be able to remove the detection of a particular "suspicious item" (if I could find the chest I'd name it specifically, something like "Evo:Gen"), yet with all the configurability I can't seem to stop this particular false detection and keep all the rest of the protection enabled. As it is, I have to exclude my software development tree from all checking.
What's going on, folks?
-Noel