Free avast finds virus on every single website!

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@Ivan Samuelson post:20

Wow, I remember when this happened last year with McAfee, but worse.

It happened back in December 2009 with Avast as well and was worse.

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=51627.0

I think I read a thread around here where somebody said it was the second time it happened this year so far. Don’t know if they’re correct.

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=75991.msg628545#msg628545

It happens from time to time with any AV. If it starts to get more frequent that’s when i’ll pull the plug on Avast on my own systems. Luckily with this most recent mess I didn’t quarantine anything, I just left everything alone because I knew there was something wrong.

[system]

@Jack 1000 post:19

@royo post:18

I have had enough of this program. It used to be excellent, now it’s a piece of cr@p I’m afraid.

I’m trying to rebuild an XP box. Whether the previous virus problems I experienced were real or not I’m beginning to doubt. Basically, I’m now unable to rebuild the PC because Avast regards every site - including microsoft update!!! as a potential threat, and blocking it. It even found the Google search page incorporated in the release of Chrome - which I downloaded WITH AVAST - as a potentially harmful site. A scan located about 10 “trojans” (bear in mind that I had only used the pc for the initial MS updates to the original (disc) installation). A boot-time scan located 52,000 - yes 52,000 - threats and moved them. These included the whole of the MS Movie Maker set of files.

I’m no longer running ZA, which was said to be in conflict with Avast, and using Online Armor instead.

This application is FINISHED. No longer suitable for anything at all except causing problems. An absolute disgrace. And it used to be so good!

Greetings,

Did you manually update to the latest version of Avast? That should fix the issues from the bad update released yesterday. How did you deal with those files that it said were infected?

Jack
This thing has caused me enough problems already I’m afraid. I’m not interested in helping develop a bug ridden product, even if it is free. On the machine I’m rebuilding I have removed Avast and installed a competing product. It couldn’t possibly be worse. As soon as I can I will remove it from my 3 other pc’s too. I am appalled at how much trouble this thing has caused me and would never go near it again even if Avast paid ME.
Roy

[RedFan]

My wife complained (angry) >:( yesterday about avast with this problem on every website a trojan ??? Pffff , i removed avast and installed MSE instead _ then she was happy again !