AVG identifies Adobe Flash as malicious

User Comments: 6

1. November 14, 2008 3:04 PM
   jesse_hz said:
   It isn't?
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2. November 14, 2008 3:09 PM
   camuss15 said:
   Early this year, I switched to Avast Antivirus, and I like it much better than AVG, which I used for years. Luckily, I never had any problems similar to the ones popping up recently when I used AVG.
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3. November 14, 2008 3:36 PM
   pbitton said:
   AVG issued a replacement update within 3 hours.Official statement: "The company continues to institute new and increasingly rigorous quality-assurance standards to ensure that any potential vulnerabilities in future product updates are identified and eliminated before they can impact users."
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4. November 14, 2008 10:28 PM
   DarkCobra said:
   It's too bad that AVG is having some "issues" lately on a number of things. However, as "pbitton" stated they are fixing them right away which is good sign. I also agree with "camuss15" that Avast is also an excellent alternative to AVG. They're both free and I like both. I have AVG on my desktop and Avast on two laptops. All running great. I'll never go back to things like Norton which literally take over the entire operating system and has a mind of it's own. AVG and Avast run smoothly out of the way with few resources lost and do their job well.
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5. November 15, 2008 2:53 PM
   nunjabusiness said:
   I have to agree with AVG's earlier assessment:ZoneAlarm is malicious, IMHO. I try to convince everyone I know to get that crap off their system. I actually like AVG's firewall, extremely configurable if you know what you are doing - but easy to use if you don't. And Comodo wins a lot of accolades for theirs (free forever, they say.)I much prefer the occasional false positive to Symantec's of McAfee's absolute failure to prevent against some fairly low-level threats (personal experience unfortunately) and their incredible system overhead. And Grisoft is extremely responsive.
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6. November 27, 2008 10:37 PM
   mrschimpf said:
   I haven't had any problems with AVG until this month. There have been 5-6 false positives on my computer over the last month for programs which should never trigger a virus warning. It said that the Windows calculator was dangerous and advised me to delete it, which is just crazy, along with some system files I would never delete. I've been trialing NOD32 on my new laptop, and I'm ready to buy two licenses to have an AV which doesn't give me so many false positives.
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