AVAST Vs AVG

Discussion in 'Malware Help (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by dalkiel, Jul 11, 2008.

  1. dalkiel

    dalkiel Private First Class

    I was using AVG up to now and I switched over to AVAST for my desktop PC and after the first scan discovered a worm/malware/virus/trojan etc. This startled me because I have spybot and spywareblaster+adaware which had revealed nothing thus far

    Today I thought i'd try AVAST on my laptop so i uninstalled AVG and installed AVAST - did a scan - once again malware/ was detected. I moved everything to the chest for the time being

    Both my laptop and desktop have spybot and spywareblaster+adaware which picked up nothing so i'm wondering if they are false positives

    one virus it found was pskavs.dll located in system32\activescan

    Advice/suggestions?
    Thanks in advance
     
    dalkiel, Jul 11, 2008
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  2. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    This is a well known false positive problem that Avast has had for years. That folder and files in it are from Panda Active Scan.

    Note: SpywareBlaster is not a malware scanning program. It will never detect anything.
     
    chaslang, Jul 11, 2008
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