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Old November 12th 18, 02:48 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Mayayana
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"VanguardLH" wrote

| I use Avast, I didn't bother installing their superfluous Mail Shield
| module

Maybe that's why I haven't seen the behavior. When
I've installed it for people I've only enabled the actual
AV, and pretty much just for scanning downloads or
new files, if I remember correctly. The default settings
were too restrictive and wasted a lot of resources scanning
every action taken. It's wasteful to do things like scan
a doc every time you resave it.

| I tried Avira but its web scanner (Web
| Protection in their add-on toolbar) was spyware. No point in going from
| adware (that I can disable) to spyware that tracks my web surfing.

I was unaware of Avira until someone sent me an
email saying it was tagging some of my own
software as a known malware strain! I wrote to them
and only got robo-responses. No one's minding the
store at Avira. It turned out that if I made a minor change
in the compile options then my software was suddenly
clean. I don't remember the exact option. I think it
was some kind of efficiency factor, like removing
array bounds checking. I could see their logic the
Without the check it might be more possible to carry
out a buffer overflow attack. But their overall approach
is idiotic. Array bounds checking is something that's
very inefficient and shouldn't be necessary in properly
written software. For Avira to want that is like saying
all bank customers must have their feet tied together
to protect from hit-and-run bandits robbing the bank.

My sense with all of this is that they're all vying for
corporate business, they don't care about the freebie
test base, and they're mainly only concerned about
not letting a bug through. False positives? Email
too crippled to read? Can't download files? Non-commercial
websites blocked? They don't care about any of that
because most people will blame their own ignorance for
their troubles, not realizing the problem is poorly made AV.
So the AV people only care that they get a 99.99%
success rate in stopping bugs.


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