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Originally Posted by kdogg
I have been recently failed by Avast as well.
After reading this thread, I made a switch from Security Essentials, to Avast.
After running Avast for a few months now, and I thought everything as going fine. I started having some redirecting problem in my browser, and got a little suspicious. I check my Avast log history, and for over a month, my scheduled scans have been detecting viruses, but Avast doesn't appear to do anything with them. It didn't even give me any sort of obvious indication that they were still on my computer.
I cleaned them up through Avast, and also ran Trend's House Call to clean up my computer a little more. I also recently installed Malwarebytes to clean up my computer even further.
Unless there is some sort of Avast setting I didn't select to automatically clean and warn of virus detection, I'll probably head back to Security Essentials as that has never let me down.
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Avast and Malwarebytes cannot catch the new Gen 3 rootkits.
I recommend Dr. Web for actual manual scanning. That is made by the Russians to defeat the Russians. Everytime you download it, it even downloads as a new build with a random filename.
http://www.freedrweb.com/cureit/?lng=en
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Originally Posted by Bobblehead
Avast used to. As a matter of fact, it was a PITA - it would stop cold and wouldn't proceed until you old it how to deal with the virus. That was how they got you to buy the full version; with the full version you could tell it to always quarantine/clean/etc but the free one you always had to answer a prompt.
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I don't know, my Avast automatically deals with stuff.