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If I were you I would get rid of avast and get AVG instead.

AVG is good, but the free version needs backup from Spybot S&D and AdAware to be good enough.

if you want to advertise and talk about antiviruses, discuss it somewhere else.
for example here

if anybody has anything else to say, related to the talk about fake virus report in cannon fodder, go on.

otherwise i am locking this

edit: don't mind this post. it's a split from the old thread already

Only that to verify positives the best service is www.virustotal.com, it scans any file you upload with a bunch of antivirus programs (currently 32 I think).

Yes, but some of these programs I have never heard of. Sometimes just one or two sites mark a file as "suspicious", but it looks like a false positive. Virustotal than gives you the percentage of virus identifications and more or less tells you to think for yourself whether you want to risk running the file or not... difficult sometimes :)

Then maybe the thread about online gambling is helpful. :D

I ditched AVG specifically to use Avast! because AVG was causing Half-Life 2: Episode 2 to crash with 'out of virtual memory' errors.

I checked Valve's help and support section, and apparently AVG assigns itself stupid amounts of virtual memory, even if you disable it.
One uninstall later, and Episode 2 hasn't crashed since.

ugh.... what does it mean if Sophos detects one file suspicious and one file as possible malicious software that intends to download trojans? I mean a few others also found it suspicious file and one even sort of named it: Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Small.BXA

but all major ones did no such thing. Panda sajs suspicious, Avira, AVG, AVAST, MCAFEE, F-PROT, NOD32v2 etc they are all negative. is this programme really a virus? or would it be OK to use it?

Might be a false positive, you can also try Trend Micro's Online scan housecall for one more check. I'd personally move the file for the time being till you can tell for sure if the file is really a trojan or if it could just be a false positive, no harm done for moving it.

Do a google search on that trojan too, to see what is being said about the file, it also should give you a better idea on what it is capable of doing, should the file in question actually be that particular trojan.

no problem there... it's on a CD anyway... only i planned to give the CD to someone and i don't want to give a bad thing.

The thing they found different programes describe it as different virus or malware.

the ones that actually do describe it as a possible virus talk about a program that will connect to other porgrammes in web and download malware/trojans... some say the risk is high. others say the risk is possible...

i just find it hard to believe only some programmes on that virustotal.com consider it to be a virus. while most major ones don't find it as a virus.

i did a search on sophos and info i got is that one might be false positive especially for keygen porgames. but the other one there is hardly anything appart form the info on sophos itself.

could it be some home made computer virus that best virus scans don't recognise as a virus?