problems with avira antivirus

[Frankolinox]

lalala

[Aurel]

Yes ..Frank - peter have right -- uninstal
and try KingSoft its free and goood...

ps...
I always have problems with:
Avira
Avast
AVG

[Charles Pegge]

Hi Frank,

I tested some compiled progs using http://www.virustotal.com

Avira is just about the only one that generates a false positive now. No trouble with 64 bit binaries.

I will try to contact them later. Their site is down at present.

Charles

[Charles Pegge]

Good! I think we are making progress

[Charles Pegge]

Initial response from Avira:

Date:    Tue, 22 Jan 2013 04:03:53 +0100 [19:03:53 PST]
From:    Avira Virus Lab Response Team <noreply@avira.com>
To:    cevpegge@oxygenbasic.org
Reply-To:    noreply@avira.com
Subject:    Status of your submission - Tracking number 1355756
Dear Sir or Madam,

Thank you for your submission. Your tracking number is 1355756. Please always state your tracking number if contacting support.

This email is automatically generated. Please do not reply to it. At the time the result of the technical analysis is ready we will send a reply including results.


Additionally you will be able to see it online here:
https://analysis.avira.com/en/status?uniqueid=Cy9AqQYHkN6OWLVIM4fQxPOOVT58gjkN&incidentid=1355756

An overview of your previous submissions can be accessed here:
https://analysis.avira.com/en/overview?uniqueid=Cy9AqQYHkN6OWLVIM4fQxPOOVT58gjkN


Sincerely yours,
Avira Virus Lab Response Team

[Aurel]

I don't want raise any kind of panic BUT.
I use Baidu Antivirus which is based on Avira and again problems with exes created by Oxygen.
Anyone can confirm this ...? 

I have send complain or false positive to Baidu but im not sure that anyone recieve this

[Charles Pegge]

Not only Oxygen exe files, anything compiled seems to be fair game for some of these Virus checkers. I feel they are out of control.

[Aurel]

Yes Charles you have a right ,i am really pissed off with this ,
but which one you use?

[JRS]

I use Microsoft Security Essentials.  It's free/supported by the creator of the OS. Why use anything else?

[Aurel]

Microsoft Security Essentials

because it is ordinary crap...

By the way ..John it looks to me that you cannot imagine how much windows is open source

[Aurel]

Charles
You still don't answer me ..which antivirus u use?
However in few last days i have tested (try) many antivirus programs.
many of them are paranoid, strange and many of them are from Indonesia...
what is so interesting for Indonesian to made so many antivirus proframs 
i am not sure ...smell strange..

And what a heck many of them use Avira engine to...which i don't like to much.
In my search i have found one interesting from SantaClara called
Xyvos Antivirus 1.5 Free
which have this:

This program is also fast and reliable which means that you are free from false alarms that are created by most of the other products in the market.

[JRS]

How did your Microsoft Essentials testing work out?

[Charles Pegge]

I am using the free version of Avast. It makes increasingly strident demands to pay for the upgraded version, and its web-shield is a  nuisance. But I can just about tolerate it.

[Aurel]

Aha..i use Avast in the past and he eat lot of resources but work and is not such a paranoid
like Avira , with this new one it loos that things are ok,/for now/

[JRS]

It makes increasingly strident demands to pay for the upgraded version

You almost have to be a magician to get the free version installed. The constant pestering to upgrade is more than I could tolerate. I'm talking about casual Windows use in a VirtualBox. I switched to MS Security Essentials and never looked back. It's free but does require a legal copy of Windows. I fear this is why Aurel is so reluctant to try it.