Avast 6 Final !

[Taurus]

Originally Posted by kendall

2) How awesome Sandboxie could have been in this situation. In fact, it wouldn't have been a "situation" with Sandboxie.

Bo, I think we have another convert.

No AV\AM catches everything. Thank goodness they don't because can you imagine the number of false positives that would have to be submitted. I've been trying out Emsisoft Emergency Scanner as an on deamnd scanner just in case Sandboxie does let something through. The EES scans have produced 4 false positives in the time that I have been trying it out. I quarantined the suspected files that had been corrupted, but first uploaded them to Virustotal. The only software that detected an infection at Virustotal was Emsisoft. So I submitted the suspect files to Emsisoft for false positive verification and sure enough, I got an email from them stating that the files were ok. I downloaded signature updates and the files weren't detected anymore because the signatures files had been updated.

My whole point is that Sandboxie is very effective. I'm getting to the point were doing on demand scans are really not worth it. All I'm doing is clearing false positive detections for Emsisoft.

I'll still do occasional on demand scans with MBAM and HMP because they usually do not produce false positives, but they never find any real infections either.

[bo.elam]

Originally Posted by Taurus

Bo, I think we have another convert.


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I hope so, Kendall's father in law would benefit immensely if he starts using
Sandboxie along Avast or any other light antivirus. Even my mom uses SBIE
when she comes down here, so I know Sandboxie can be used by anyone.

Bo

[Anupam]

Avast 6.0.1289 has been released. The release details are here :

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=84297.0

It was supposed to be 6.0.1287, and was supposed to be released yesterday, but the free version had some bugs whereby the shields graph did not show after the update. That has been corrected, and product now released as 6.0.1289.

[Anupam]

Updated via the internal updater, and its running fine.

[J_L]

No issues after a reboot.

[Anupam]

Avast updated to 6.0.1367

Details here :

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=89262.0

[Collier]

Seems to slow down Opera & K Meleon browsers in comparison with its predecessor or is it that it uses more memory?

[shikhak]

Thanks for the information.I will surely try it out.