It is, in my view, always an irresponsible idea to make it easy for users to ignore a problem.
So the option of closing the scan window is going to be removed? No more X in the upper right corner? Afraid of a technical user being able to choose an intelligent option?
The whole ethos of an anti-virus program it to alert users to the existence of a problem. The next best step is for the program to "fix" the problem.
By not providing for the enhancement suggested guess what option I had to use. Hardly a "fix" imo. Yet the
No action option is provided for all to use. Is the "new release" going to eliminate that "fix"? I highly doubt it.
One of the very worst things it can do it make it easy for the user to just hide the problem.
I agree. I'm not trying to hide a problem, I simply want to be able to conveniently fix false problems. DOS 6.22's MSAV.EXE is not a virus or a trojan. PC-cillin never flagged it in all the years I've had it on my hd. Now avast! comes along and struggles with it.
None of the
Available actions are the
fix. The fix is to exclude it from avast!'s scans until such time avast.com fixes their scan patterns. Else every scan will flag it and the end user will learn to disregard av scans. Is that really the attitude you want to give the new user?
(And yes, I have zipped and password protected the zip and forwarded it to avast.com.)
All to often in this forum we see the "I just want the alert to go away" attitude and it is one I experienced frequently in running worldwide systems for a major company.
I know you're not looking for sympathy so I won't give you any.
Being new here I don't know how many of the postings you see are related to false positives like I've experienced but for those that are, making the alert go away is the valid attitude.
If someone has a lot of files on their system generating alerts then they probably need attention. ]
I don't classify 6, or was it 5, as a "lot".
Adding a file into the list of exclusions should be a rare event (something that 99% of the users will never need)
That is your opinion, the 99% part.
Well, yes, that it my opinion... and also the intention of the developers, I dare say.
I will take that to imply you work for avast.com. And probably not management or marketing or sales.
The new Option/Action would certainly not add any more confusion than the current lists already have thus there is no compelling reason not to make the change.
Any additional control brings more confusion (to average users) - many people would click it by accident, many people would click it intentionally, but without a good reason. Besides the additional control, the option is somehow "dangerous".
a. I doubt any more people would click on it than the ones that currently click on the X in the upper right corner when an annoying false position pops up. b. The option is no more dangerous than the X or the
No action button. c. You attract users by making a product that is accurate and useful not by annoying them needlessly.
In that the list is 4 years old I doubt it's relevant. And my suggestion doesn't have to wait for a major release to be included and useful.
The thread is occasionally read
Thank you. I rest my case.