Avast IS 7 and threatfire

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Hi,

Is Threatfire compatible with AIS 7 and are there any settings adjustments i should make?

I can see that there were clashes with other versions of Avast previously and am wondering if these have been sorted now?

Thanks

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I can’t answer this but do have a question for you. Is ThreatFire still under development? If so, where can I download the most recent version? The last version I saw was 4.7 and was released at the end of 2009.

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ThreatFire was killed by Symantec at the same time it was bought.

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Actually it wasn’t. It was updated for some time and then like someone dropped a bomb on the PCTools department. Everything just stopped. Including ThreatFire which wasn’t updated for like 2 years now. It’s still quite effective though.

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I was not talking about the past (at that moment) but the future that could be foreseen: “then like someone dropped a bomb on the PCTools department”.

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Threat Fire still gets definition updates.
Wouldn’t this been a sign that it is still support by PCtools and things haven’t stopped ?

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The definitions alone aren’t enough. You need to update program components as well. They used to do that for various threats but not anymore. I doubt that they made it so flexible that they can update everything through definitions alone.

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their support in the forums seems very sparse though…not trusting products not well supported so stopped using threatfire :cry:

it was a very good behaviour blocker

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I wonder which module in Symantec’s protection is now the old threatfire ???

It was to good to simply allow it to die.

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I feel as if I’m missing something here. I use ThreatFire all the time and it constantly recieves updates and new statistics on various threats and viruses around the world.

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if u have a virtual machine, u could try testing threatfire against malicious links. (do not try this if u dun know what u are doing)

u will notice that it really rarely pop-ups the red coloured pop-up, which confirms a known malicious program. instead what u often get now is the yellow coloured pop-up compared to the past when threatfire was really good. (this shows that the database update quality it receives has dropped).

also, increasingly, threatfire has let threats slipped by in my opinion (no detection, not even yellow, compared to the past)

overall i think it is still quite effective…but not well supported. support is very important for any product, even if the product is excellent.
poor support makes it dangerous to install it on ur personal computer…u will get into problems sooner or later (conflicts → system instability/unusable).

since i can no longer trust threatfire due to poor support, off it goes from my system :slight_smile:

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It’s still trillions of lightyears better than avast!'s Behavior Shield though…