Awaiting for the announced “proactive defense module” in AVAST 5. Meanwhile, I found PrevX 2 that is based essentially on that. Installed the trial version. Bad idea. No change since last year on my Office XP pro desktop. It slows enormously the pc (I kept AVAST and SpySweeper RP ON with Comodo3). Then it’s a joke:at first complete thorough scan it finds 3 FP files about my WEBCAM I bought from eBay (TAIWAN) it puts in JAIL as malware (it’s not…!!!). Then finally the software ransoms me asking me to buy or else, it will not run anymore on this pc. Finally uninstalled, my pc is swifter and faster as you may well understand. Hope this will help ALWIL. Life is difficult! People asking all sorts of things:the EXTRAS, for free. But did you think about having to deal with slower computers and far more FPs then. Let’s not follow the PrevX experience! :o
I hate software that delete or send to Quarantine automatically… They are the owners of the truth, want to help the users and mess the computer, then the support is ridiculous and you need to solve everything alone.
At least, ThreatFire does not do this automatically. But it has a lot of false positives too.
I don’t know after whom to be angry (ME or…PrevX0. Their uninstallation program even with UAC OFF is a joke. Tonight I found a service of PrevX still on my PC (a driver) I hoped I removed for good with HijackThis from aSquare antimalware (it has some good features too, I see.). ???
A-squared does have some good features
W98-ME support
free removal
for real-time on startup protection it requires registration as do most other anti-malware programs
specializes in Trojans
see also Trojan Hunter
EWIDO aka AVG Anti Spyware was also in this class as was TDS-3
with all of these programs watch for false positives
vigilance gives false alarms sometimes
Take care with a-squared false positives!