Alright David, I get your point and agree. I don’t want to get off topic here.
I just wish that something installed on your computer, just by browsing a website, (without asking you (oh, and the browser should be able to stop this too, why doesn’t it? rhetorical question, and I know that FF w/noscript can, but how about the regular users with IE or whatever)) that starts screaming that you have fictitious viruses invading your system that requires this program, offered at $49.95 to remove them, would be detected by an A/V Program.
I know it’s not the A/V company’s problem, as you said, since it’s not really a virus. It’s just that it sucks. The worst part of it is the fact that these programs eventually do cause problems, just like a virus would. They can disable your current A/V product, prevent MBAM from starting, and cause BSOD’s or prevent windows from booting.
Most users think it takes a virus to cause those problems. So they get avast, and think that it can take care of it. But it doesn’t, then they’re on here (if they’re smart enough to look here for help in the first place), and we’re telling every single person that has one of these rogues to download mbam to get rid of it.
Is it possible to state that Avast won’t detect certain rogue A/V’s, spyware, or adware programs, and suggest MBAM and / or SAS as well as avast when they install for the first time on avast’s website? Maybe instead of bundling google chrome with the avast installation, they could bundle MBAM instead or as well, so that users won’t run into the problem of the rogues preventing MBAM’s installation. They’ll already have it installed and ready to go.
grr.
This whole thread is just a rant (no need for angry replies, I’m just thinking out loud), because it frustrates me to see these things spread, and we probably only see 10% of the people with these problems in here. The other 90% probably have to call a friend, a co-worker, a family member, bring their computer into the shop and pay money just to get their computers working again. When if they had one simple program, MBAM, it all could have been avoided. Then here we go again, they don’t know to download MBAM because they think that Avast will clean it, when it doesn’t. A stupid circle jerk.
oh well, end of rant, and sorry for adding a useless post. I just had to get it out!
next problem!