![]() And also by downloading files that, clearly, are threats (for example, what arrives by mail to the SPAM folder). These tests are carried out by visiting dangerous websites that are online. The AV Comparatives Real World Protection Test is the most complete and complex test that we can find to measure the security of antivirus. However, in real world tests, things change. This is where most get the best detection rates and a very low number of false positives, as the algorithms are optimized for this purpose. They use their own collection of viruses and threats and check how many of them are capable of detecting these threats. This platform tests antivirus in two different environments. In this way, the data is as real and comparative as possible. All antiviruses are tested on identical computers and environments, with the same software and the same settings. ![]() The AV Comparatives platform is in charge of testing the main antivirus on the market so that users can know how they work and can choose which is the best security program for their PC. If you don’t want false positives, avoid AVG, Panda, Avast, and Malwarebytes And if what we are looking for is a safe and reliable antivirus, that does not give us problems with false positives, these are the ones we must avoid. However, thanks to platforms like AV Comparatives we can get an idea of how these security programs protect us. Security companies do not usually give data on the efficiency of their engine, and the error rate of their algorithms (obviously). Although the antivirus fulfills the objective of protecting us as well, doing it with a very high rate of false positives can be dangerous and, therefore, not recommended. PS: Please change the captcha settings, it's really crappy and I'm for sure not blind.As its name suggests, a false positive is a file or a reliable and secure website that the antivirus detects as a threat and blocks it. ![]() Next time, maybe, we'll just suggest them to change their antivirus. This time we solved the issue reporting you the false positive, suggesting our users to update Avast to last engine and virus defs and, finally, to mark our domain as trustworthy. This is not "protecting users from treats", this is giving idiots the weapons to harm and bother other users. Mayhaps I'd have some thoughts about the way you accept anonymous (sorry "confidentially") reports, withouth either a registration or an email confirm request even a small wolfpack of idiots can easely send you massive false reports against the targeted site, easely changing their IP addresses using proxies and just inventing each time a new (formally valid, but useless because you don't either verify it) email address to provide in the report form. Really it's the only reason I can figure out HOW the hell an inner page of a web gaming interface could have been listed as malicious/phishing (a banking one? on a RP community?) What I figure out is that some "competitor" players had decided to have fun sending you massive false phishing reports. Now, the question is: according to the workflow explained here, what the hell of "manual analysis" do you perform in your beloved Avast Threat Labs, before deciding to mark a reported link as phishing? And it refreshes automatically about every 120-180 seconds. swf calling some *.mp3 sfx in case of certain game events. The incriminated page just contains a call to a google fonts content and the google analytics scripts, a selfmade javascript to control the page tools (pm, chat, meteo info, game locations, accessing the playing character's sheet and so on), and a flash. No "freemium" rules, no gadgets, no ad campaign, neither a stupid "buy me a coffee" web button. Our site is an amatorial, free web community of roleplayers. ![]() Here are the reports from various online url safety checkers:Īll of them mark our domain as clean, and either the two checking directly the supposed-to-be-infected page haven't found anything of suspect/malicious. I've had the same issue today on my site ( In particular a page users continuously reload/refresh as it's part of a web roleplay gaming interface.
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