prevx home page claims other AV's missed malware

they get fixed faster by posting here

 

It shouldn't have to be this way. If they can check here, they can check their email inbox surely. If they can't, and this is indeed the best way for them, it says a lot about the level of communication possible. :/

 

Indeed - or via PM, or email to me directly they will all be fixed equally as fast (and will reduce clutter to the forum )

(And FWIW - I've fixed these, the ones which we had FPs on were components from a version > 2 years old, and we detected a few which had been infected with Nsag)

 

Not a false positive but I love this one
http://www.prevx.com/filenames/X712162694334927910-X1/PREVX_3.0_KEY.EXE.html


Panagiotis

 

It's impressive that they are able to not only provide a key for Prevx 3.0, but also for "MICROSOFT_OFFICE_2007_2007_3_SERIAL[n].EXE" in the same exe

 

See what you do with your chart?
People download PrevX and then get infected by trying to find a keygen.

Panagiotis

 

Attention Prevx

Whilst comments are been made about the look, can you please make the GUI a lot larger, or expandable, and SOON ! It's far too small as it is, and when i did my 5 Apps test, now 6 with late addition Prevx, it was a nightmare trying to scroll down the list of malware to make a screeny. In the end i gave up as it would have taken too much time copy/pasting numerous shots together. In the end i used data from the log and posted that.

Thanx for listening.

 

Afraid that's one for Joe to answer, and how likely that a larger / expandable GUI would be to break our 1MB filesize limit

 

Shinier? More glossy? Man, it's pretty good just the way it is! Imagine leaving something alone. Heck of a concept!

 

StevieO, FYI – the SnagIt “snapshot” utility may be of interest, since the tool is able to automatically scroll a window (horizontally or vertically) and capture its contents as an image.

 

Agree! I like the GUI and never had any problems with it. Looks pretty nice

Regards,
Nightwatch

 

I like it, too.

However, I'm actually starting to understand how to use Prevx, & that worries me. After all -- security apps that are understandable can't be all that good, right?

 

Pleonasm

"the tool is able to automatically scroll a window (horizontally or vertically) and capture its contents as an image"

I never knew you could do that ! I wish i'd been aware of Snagit's abilities ages ago, would have saved me a lot of time on numerous occassions over the years lol. Anyway better late than never hey.

I have both XnView and FastStone, and just tried to do it with those. I couldn't find a way, maybe there isn't ?

Thanx a bunch for the tip and link.

This App is a keeper, here's something i knocked up in seconds, not minutes as before, using it.

 

FastStone has "Capture Scrolling Window" capability. Depending on version (which might mean this won't work), try Ctrl+Alt+PrtSc.

 

Exactly why I am impressed with GeSWall Pro... so difficult to understand!!

 

Page42

Just tried your suggestion on FS v 3.8, no joy !

Thanx anyway for posting.

 

I'll PM you so as to not take up further OT space.

 

Good idea, just replied.

Thanx

 

how about putting on chart all legal files you removed from systems which other AVs not removed...
seriously, how much FPs you guys need to fix (remove from detection) daily?

 

Barely any compared to how much they are detecting?

 

Elapsed, I have asked (on several occasions) for PrevxHelp to share this information with the forum community, but to-date it has not been forthcoming. I have to believe that someone inside of Prevx has her or his finger on the pulse of false positive activity, and could easily share the proportion of all “positives” (i.e., malware detections) that are “false” (i.e., incorrectly classified as malware) over a specified time period.

In the spirit of being “fair & balanced,” PrevxHelp has previously stated that the company’s resources are quite limited at the moment. Nonetheless, it certainly seems that the FP issue is of importance to many in this forum community and is thus worthy of attention, in my opinion.

 

Thanks.
I might give it a try later

 

Pleonasm, do you realize that you are essentially spoiled rotten by the transparency that already exists with regard to Prevx, and by the degree and detail of responses that you get from a company representative? I don't think you do. Try your endless probing and questioning and suggesting with any other vendor.... PLEASE, I implore you.... try it with anyone else (a few of us around here could use the respite) and see if you get anywhere close to the attention you have received in this forum from these Prevx reps. Other vendors, if they don't ignore you outright, will tell you that the information you are requesting is proprietary. It is amazing to me that PrevxHelp has coddled you to the extent that he has.

 

You are on the right page, Page42!

TH

 

I don't come here to have ~Snip~ contest with any one. I come here to learn from experts who use the product and learn from their experiences. From what I have come across is 50 % of posters are not even using Prevx.... but they have all these questions.

UNETHICAL!... What's so unethical about what Prevx is saying! Every other security company is doing the same thing!