 KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK
 ·AT&T DSL Service
| Yep, Avast screwed the Pooch After Avast updated tonight, it went bonkers. I've had to shut it down. It blocks programs like Mailwasher, Foxit, etc as Viruses.
It's hosed. I went to Avast's site but it was so overloaded I couldn't get on the forums or read the Blog....
This is going to be very damaging to their reputation, tomorrow lots and lots of people are going to be thinking their computers are massively infected and will be quarantining valid apps and breaking stuff left and right.
Avast should roll back the update immediately and figure out what went wrong!
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"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." -- Benito Mussolini
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KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK Reviews:
·AT&T DSL Service
| I know of several people I've helped "Clean up" their PC's and installed Avast on it for them. 
I expect I'm going to be hearing from them real soon (tomorrow.)
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"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." -- Benito Mussolini
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| said by KrK:I know of several people I've helped "Clean up" their PC's and installed Avast on it for them. I expect I'm going to be hearing from them real soon (tomorrow.) UGH! Me too! I just came on to check my mail before going to bed - and went to check something I downloaded and Avast popped up. Since it was something I KNEW wasn't infected (zplayer) I started to worry I may have gotten something, so I came on here and found this.
As I type, Avast updated, so maybe it was rolled back - or at least updated. (ran manual update)
Here's to hoping that fixes the problem, but I expect calls tomorrow..... |
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 swhx7Premium
join:2006-07-23
Elbonia | reply to KrK
Maybe when malware definitions become numerous and varied beyond a certain degree, they inevitably start coinciding with patterns found in innocent programs.
This may signal the exhaustion of the antivirus approach to security. |
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