Avast! & A-Squared Anti-Malware

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Of course Trojan Hunter adn A=Squared are the real things

A-squared publishes a list of the trojans it deals with
if a trojan is on the list A-squared works well
as I said it’s not a general purpose anti spyware or anti adware scanner

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Point taken wyrmrider,

I should have made it clear I was not referring to A-Squared, Trojan Hunter, SUPERantispyware or any other of the well-known and trusted programs but rather to the three hundred and forty-nine applications listed as rogue anti-spyware on the Spyware Warrior site.

I was trying to say that the good ones are very heavily outnumbered by the bad, and that this seems to be a field in which opportunities for sharp practice and deceitful advertising abound.

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point well taken
the baddies are very good with their social engineering to get you to click on their warze
Xp Antivirus 2008 what a great name

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Hi havildar and Avast readers and writers,

I have been using Avast Home for some two months and a-squared Free for 23 months.
I find both programs excellent and I have recommended both programs to others.I have
had very few (probably less than 10) FPs in all that time, but perhaps that is more of a
reflection on my computer habits as I have no idea what other folk have experienced.

I see that today the number of a-squared malware signatures is an impressive 1,449,665.

A-squared will perform a Quick Scan (of all active programs, spyware traces and tracking
cookies) in just under two minutes, though I normally perform a Custom Scan on my "C:"
partition three or four times a week. The scan time, in my case, is similar to that of Avast.

Support for a-squared Anti-Malware and a-squared Free will end on 31st December this
year for those with Windows 98, ME and 2000: for those with later Operating Systems I
would suggest trying a-squared Anti-Malware (especially with any year’s free subscription).

http://forum.emsisoft.com/Default.aspx?g=posts&t=3567 links to havildar’s post here.

My regards

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My experience is not good… too many false positives, a very very poor restoration feature… no, thanks, a-squared no more.
Another manufacturer that is dropping old OS support…