Avira Probs

trjam · Dec 10, 2007

Mele20 said:

They ARE FP's! Avira is the ONLY vendor who detects them. You detect PSkill.exe from Sysinternals. It makes Avira look like an idiot. You detect a bunch of stuff that is in no way a virus. You cannot claim with a straight face that programs from Sysinternals are "from suspect sources". You cannot claim that about a single program that Avira has detected on my computer. None of them are from suspect sources and ONLY Avira detects them. The authors have nicely asked Avira to stop detecting (such as the author of EvID4226patch.exe and Avira will not do so because Avira wants to push its moral standards on all users. I don't know how Sysinternals programs are amoral nor how the tcpip.sys is amoral (Microsoft made a stupid mistake in SP2 and we users have to fix it or continue to use SP1) but I had an Avira employee tell me they are. Not everyone uses P2P to steal movies and it is not Avira's place to make a decision about the use of either of these programs.

An antivirus program is supposed to detect viruses, worms, trojans and not spyware or suspect programs. Spyware should be detected by a separate antispyware program and suspect programs should not be detected at all. Avira wants to become Symantec and detect net nanny programs? That is right where you are headed. Leave the spyware to anti spyware vendors. That is why we all use a layered approach. Putting all your eggs in one basket is extremely risky and stupid.
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Gee, if one felt so strongly about this and felt Avira was shoving it down ones throat, I wonder why they give you the option to uncheck SPR. Sounds and looks to me the option is there for the customer to choose. And it aint even checked by default.

Mele20 · Dec 10, 2007

trjam said:

Gee, if one felt so strongly about this and felt Avira was shoving it down ones throat, I wonder why they give you the option to uncheck SPR. Sounds and looks to me the option is there for the customer to choose. And it aint even checked by default.
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It was checked by default when I got Avira. That was changed in Sept.

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