Do Avast protect against Malware? 

system · 2017-07-26T15:37:21.000Z

hey,
are these files safe and from keygen ? Or they are harmful and Avast didn’t see them after “Full Scan”
I used malwarebytes.
Thanks

DavidR · 2017-07-26T16:06:10.000Z

Yes it does, whilst it is a very rare occasion to actually come into contact with a ‘virus’ all historic antivirus programs retain that categorisation. However, the greatest amount of stuff you are likely to come into contact with is classed as malware.

PUP (Potentially Unwanted Program) by default scanning for pups is disabled by default, given what is shown these are registry entries and without any accompanying program/file would be inert even if avast were scanning for PUPs. Also avast doesn’t specifically scan the registry, I believe if it found malware on your system, then, it would try to find any associated registry entry.

If you are using keygens, then you are leaving yourself open to risk/malware (who would you complain to), not to mention the legality issue. If you are using keygens then as the official support forum for Avast we couldn’t condone that.

I also can’t see how a folder would be classed as Malware.

You don’t say what detected these things on your system ?
Who is to say they are correct.

Pondus · 2017-07-26T16:06:33.000Z

Do Avast protect against Malware?

Asked a million times

Malware = Malicious software > avast detect all types of malicious software
No security program have 100% detection or zero false Positives

Malware >> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malware

PUP = Possible Unwanted Program
PUM = Possible Unwanted Modification

You can upload and check files here with multi AV engines
www.virustotal.com / www.metadefender.com / www.jotti.org

system · 2017-07-26T16:54:47.000Z

I see, thanks! I used malwarebytes.

DavidR post:2:

Yes it does, whilst it is a very rare occasion to actually come into contact with a ‘virus’ all historic antivirus programs retain that categorisation. However, the greatest amount of stuff you are likely to come into contact with is classed as malware.

PUP (Potentially Unwanted Program) by default scanning for pups is disabled by default, given what is shown these are registry entries and without any accompanying program/file would be inert even if avast were scanning for PUPs. Also avast doesn’t specifically scan the registry, I believe if it found malware on your system, then, it would try to find any associated registry entry.

If you are using keygens, then you are leaving yourself open to risk/malware (who would you complain to), not to mention the legality issue. If you are using keygens then as the official support forum for Avast we couldn’t condone that.

I also can’t see how a folder would be classed as Malware.

You don’t say what detected these things on your system ?
Who is to say they are correct.

Pondus · 2017-07-26T17:00:22.000Z

I see, thanks! I used malwarebytes.

For your info, malwarebytes is designed as a complimentary tool and does have a limited detection range It does not detect real virus (file infectors) / media files / doc files / script files

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