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[catchaserguns]

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

[Mighty Midget]

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

[_r.u.s.s.]

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

[Japo]

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).

[Jerry123]

Originally Posted by Japofran

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

[Luchsen]

Then maybe the thread about online gambling is helpful.

[MinigunFiend]

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.