Thirteen Years of Service
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Anti-virus problem 11-08-2012, 07:50 PM
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So i admit to having skidd tools along with other tools that recognize as false positives. I use avast and have exclusions set . But when AV program is running nd doing auto scans it will regardless scan nd erase? Any abswers very concerned not having AV running any suggestions
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Thirteen Years of Service
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RE: Anti-virus problem 11-09-2012, 12:03 AM
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Its probably just scanning the false positives. No worries unless your computer starts to slow down a bit or you just know somethings different in the way your computer is working.
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Thirteen Years of Service
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RE: Anti-virus problem 11-09-2012, 05:35 AM
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Depending on where you get your tools, they could easily be true positives. Just keep that in mind. If you are truly worried about it, run them on a separate machine, virtual machine, or both. Also, in the interest of saving you money - just stick with malwarebytes and do a scan if you get into something sketchy. As long as you're careful while surfing you shouldn't get anything.
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Additionally, you should always keep things that are important to you backed up, antivirus or not. If you can afford to have a backup of the entire image of your hard drive then you'll save yourself a lot of time in the event that you do get a nasty virus (something like that would most likely get by your antivirus anyway)
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