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Originally Posted by NSILMike
I know this is an old thread.... I found it by searching on Avast. There was a program update available today (17.1.2286) and it (falsely, I hope) tripped on calibre-parallel. It 'found' idp.generic.
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My antivirus program claims calibre is a virus/trojan?
Have you raised a support ticket with Avast?
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Originally Posted by NSILMike
Also, your advice to rely on the free windows antivirus is risky. There are much better options (and free such as avast and avg.)
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I disinfect a dozen or more PCs a year. The majority of which are supposedly protected by the likes of avg, avast, trend micro, symantec etc, quite often the annual subscription version, but very few are supposedly protected by MSE.
I don't claim for a moment that this proves mse is 'less risky' than the others.
Instead, I suggest that mse users are less likely to click hither and thither, especially on email attachments which is where the worst of the malware comes from. In part at least, because they are not misled into a false sense of security by the often extravagant claims of the AV vendors.
The best AV is AC - Abundant Caution.
There was a time when I would say the best firewall was air - until WiFi came along
BR