Avg Decryption Tool Description Misworded?

I was conducting a routine checking of the latest Apps available on Major Geeks. I randomly came across this App --- AVG Decryption Tool for BadBlock 1.0.0.86. http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/avg_decryption_tool_for_badblock.html

Now ... is it just me or is the 1st paragraph in the description misworded?

--- AVG Decryption Tool For BadBlock is another piece of potentially harmful ransomware that holds files hostage but does not rename them, instead, it flashes a red ransom note demanding payment. ---

Shouldn't the text "AVG Decryption Tool For BadBlock" read only "BadBlock?" Otherwise the description is saying that the AVG Tool itself is potentially harmful ransomware. I kept rereading the paragraph over and over thinking that maybe I was just not reading it from the right angle or missing something. However, it just kept coming up as misworded. It should read simply "BadBlock" as in at the beginning of the 2nd paragraph.

 

The following might be better:

AVG Decryption Tool For BadBlock.

BadBlock is another piece of potentially harmful ransomware that holds files hostage but does not rename them, instead, it flashes a red ransom note demanding payment....

 

Exactly. So can someone in the know inform the Major Geeks Powers That Be? I have no clue how to go about doing that. I'm sure AVG would appreciate it. I'm not an AVG anything user, but I knew that inadvertent case of miswording was definitely not something good for AVG.

 

Yeah, I did learn recently that the ultimate irony is about to materialize ... avast and AVG becoming ONE! As I told my oldest sister after I removed AVG from her laptop and replaced it with avast and then read about the big news --- "Here avast and AVG were the ultimate rivals for years like Christina Aguilera and Britney Spears and now they are gonna become one company."

Anyway, plodr, thanks for the heads up on how to contact the MG Powers That Be. I already e-mailed them.

 

I just e-mailed to that e-mail address that plodr provided and one guy did already reply. And if you check out the link, they did already change the wording.

Yeah, it's possible that a lot or even most people would realize that the tool itself was not potentially ransomware. But, the way things are nowadays, who knows if just because of the fact that the misworded text existed online for who knows how long --- AVG could consider it grounds for a lawsuit.

This in a similar fashion to how in recent times, after not having checked it out in ages, I checked out the Bleeping Computer Forums and was immediately confronted by a message that claimed that they were asking for help with donations because they were supposedly being sued by some software company because allegedly Bleeping Computer had given some App of theirs a bad review. Or something along those lines.

Now I don't know if that message was legit ... don't know if their forums had been hacked or what, but that's the message that I encountered on that occasion. I don't see that message now.

 

This is way i stopped using Anti virus software.

They are all pushing you to try out there so called anti virus when AVG i basically a spam bot as is.

I no longer trust avast or avg be cause they are now one in the same.

 

plodr, I went just now and took a look at some of the content of the original thread over there at Bleeping Computer that started it all. Interesting and it will be interesting to see how their situation ends up. But, we no doubt better avoid discussing it here lest we conceivably get MG in trouble as well.

 

LOL, maybe they haven't got the cojones for it?

I've also slated them, based purely on what their software detects as 'malware/dangerous/etc.', banned their reps and shills, too. They're a bunch of bully boys ime, trying to foist scareware to make a quick buck, where I have any say, they don't get away with it lightly.