Avast detected a threat. But for the life of me I can't figure out what to do.

Avast Mac Security
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I know avast is a free program and I respect that.

But all the same there’s a lot of issues with it that I just don’t have with McAfee and Norton, two other security software companies I use.

For one thing, Avast tells me when ever I go on Yahoo.com and click a trend, that they have discovered a threat. Big red alert shows up.

Good catch but then I go to avast, and it says everything’s secure. So what the hell?

The other thing I do is, I run a scan, and when the scan is done, they have all these issues. More than a thousand warnings and three infections that are supposedly on my computer. But what do I do with them? There’s no status on them.

There are no instructions, I have no idea if I have to take an action or if Avast takes care of all this stuff.

I like the mac, and it’s nice that there is a free security program but I just don’t feel like I can trust this computer. Supposedly I have 3 infections and avast is the exact opposite of user friendly.

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Hello,
post the screenshot of the “Big red alert”, pelase.

Milos

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Thanks for the reply.

I wouldn’t know how to post a screen shot.

The real issue is, once I have infections on my computer and no idea how to get them off. And about the big red alert thing, when I click on it, it just goes away. So I don’t know what to do about that either.

Is there a way to manage the infections on my computer?

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Follow the instructions outlined here:
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=53253.0

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cool. thanks, Bob.