Re:AVG can sell your browsing and search history to advertisers
by dspillett on Monday September 21, 2015 @04:45AM
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> it's rather common that keygens/cracks/patches are detected as false positives
That is unavoidable if the scanning engine is trying to apply heuristics to pick up on attacks (or variants thereof) that are not in its database yet, especially with cracks and other patches: changing the behaviour of executables the way they do is by its nature similar to what viruses and worms are attempting to do.
That is unavoidable if the scanning engine is trying to apply heuristics to pick up on attacks (or variants thereof) that are not in its database yet, especially with cracks and other patches: changing the behaviour of executables the way they do is by its nature similar to what viruses and worms are attempting to do.