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Old 01-25-2021, 03:08 PM   #54
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Originally Posted by banana22 View Post
You really should get your facts straight before posting negative untruths with such anger
If you read the latest reports from by far the biggest and independent AV testing site, you will see that not only did the windows defender you keep banging on about was the worst for performance it was near the bottom for false positives too.
https://www.av-comparatives.org/test...-october-2020/

https://www.av-comparatives.org/test...eptember-2020/
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Originally Posted by BetterRed View Post
The only malware I've had in a decade came with Piriform's CCleaner soon AFTER it was bought by Avast, VT didn't find it, MS Defender found it. And it wasn't a false alarm, the CEO of Avast published a mea-culpa - speculation was it was put there by a disgruntled Piriform exec who didn't get to keep their job.

BR
The VT (VirusTotal) suite included Avira, and AVG, Bitdefender, Kasperky and all the usual suspects, and Avast itself of course. But none of them detected the trojan that Avast distributed in its newly acquired CCleaner. Obviously MS Defender was not included in the VirusTotal suite. Whenever they have included it the howls of protest from the anti-MS crowd force them to remove it --- I wonder if they are the same crowd who claim the SARS-Cov2 pandemic is a conspiracy perpetrated by Bill Gates.

An occasional false positive might be acceptable, but a missed positive much less so.

To their credit, on being informed of the problem Avast removed the infected CCleaner from their downloads page immediately, predictably the crappy click-bait laden download sites like CNN didnt. The reputational damage was borne by CCleaner and its sister products - most people still don't know Avast gobbled up Piriform.

That wasn't the first time a program acquired in an M&A deal was deliberately infected by a disgruntled employee.

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