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[Jan Dominquez]

Iwas going to mention this in the RC1 thread but it is not really firmware related. Before Sophos got into the UTM business, I had always thought of them as an AV company but mostly for Macs. I have noticed an alarming trend lately, Avira catches more viruses than Sophos, however sophos is the recommended engine in XG and UTM9 (due to PUA detection) and sandstorm functionality.

I got a couple of random files from virustotal and tried them on UTM9 and sophos XG v16.0.5... In both cases sophos passes the virus. Sad part is that even windows defender catches these files as Trojan:Win32/Spursint.F!cl[:(]

Great answer as always Luk, dual scan makes the surfing speed a little slower so I do like you and use sophos endpoints with avira on the gateway. I am not trying to point out the shortcomings of Sophos because like you said, threats appear so fast these days that protection in layers is the best protection. I am sure there are viruses that are in Sophos database that avira is not aware of.

I know this is an old thread but I too would like to know what the users around here do in regards to single/dual engine and which they select as default? Right now I have single engine scanning on, and the engine set to Sophos, but I am starting to feel more and more that having dual engine scanning is worth a small tradeoff in speed.

Avira pro runs perfectly fine on its own. Its been running fine since i installed malwarebytes a couple hours ago. My concern is that old saying about not running more than 1 antivirus product at the same time, causing a vulnerability. I am not worried about a the applications crashing. But more of whats going on behind the scenses, that if both are running this is going to make me more vulnerable, rather than less.

Basically how can i optimally protect my computer using both at the same time. Or is the optimal protection i am seeinking involve uninstalling malwarebytes and just running its intermittant JRT Adwarecleaner, and rootkit removal tool.

If i can receive optimal protection using both avira and malwarebytes. Do I have to set up appropriate exemption etc, or turn off any active shields? So that they function optimally together. OR would i be overall better to use something like hitmanpro alert over mb3

Im getting conflicting info, I appreaciate your patience. But can you give me a detailed explaination of why they wont conflict with their file shields, scans etc. Are there are specific areas of concern that i should look at with the settings each?

If this is the case, can i run malwarebytes avira, and hitman pro alert simultaneously without increasing my vulnerability to viruses.

Until MBAM, v1.75, MB could not access files in archives but with v1.75 came that ability so it can unarchive a Java Jar (which is a PKZip file) but it won't target the .CLASS files within. Same goes with CHM files (which is a PKZip file) but it doesn't target the HTML files within. MBAM v1.75 specifically will deal with; ZIP, RAR, 7z, CAB and MSI for archives. And self-Extracting; ZIP, 7z, RAR and NSIS executables (aka; SFX files).

They can be; EXE, CPL, SYS, DLL, SCR and OCX. Any of these files types can be renamed to be anything such as; TXT, JPG, CMD and BAT and they will still be targeted just as long as the binary starts with 'MZ'.

MB is not an anti virus application. MBAM targets mainly non-viral malware. The exception being a virus dropper ( a malware file that drops a virus and starts a virus infection but is not infected with the virus ) and worms ( such as Internet worms and AutoRun worms ).

MBM is incapable of removing malicious code that has been prepended, appended or cavity injected into a legitimate file. That means if a file infecting virus infects a legitimate file MBAM will be unable to remove the malicious code. An anti virus application should be able to remove malicious code from an infected file and hopefully bring it back to its preinfected state. Which may or may not return the file to its original, non infected, checksum value.

On the other hand there are trojans that will prepend, append or cavity inject malicious code into a legitimate file. However that file can not infect other files. The infection stops with that targeted file. These files are either deemed to be "trojanized" or "patched". Since MBAM can not remove the added malicious code, at best MBAM will try to replace the trojanized file with a legitimate, unaltered, file.

What also needs to be mentioned is Using an AV lets say Defender when you download a piece of malware an AV if in the data base will alert to it and take action. Malwarebytes does not act on a file till one of two things happen.

Malwarebytes does this to not "catch" the file the same time as the AV would to avoid conflicts. You would not want more than one program fighting over the same file at the same time.

In conclusion depending on the threat (file type, URL or exploit.) The AV or MB will catch it first and mediate. That is called layered security and is what Malwarebytes has been about since the beginning.

I tried to remove Avira (free version) by moving the uninstall tool from the Apps folder to the trashcan. After reboot, the Avira icon was gone, but avwatchdogx.bin and the avguard threads are still running. I tried reinstalling Avira, but it refuses to continue becuase "Avira is already installed".

I could stop the daemon and manually remove every file and folder with "avira" in the name, but I might miss config file changes. I've posted to the Avira community, and so far nobody has responded. Can anyone here help?

Then: Restart your Mac in "Safe Mode". That will prevent all the processes associated with "Avira" from launching at boot. Repeat the manual removal technique you described, bearing in mind that it may result in a system that is unstable or cannot be started. Your recourse in that event would be to completely erase and restore your Mac from the Time Machine backup.

For what it's worth these are the files and processes associated with the version of "Avira" I installed for evaluation purposes. Please bear in mind that it may not be a complete list or apply to the version that you installed.

Thanks to all responders, and sorry for not replying sooner. I contacted Avira and they supplied a script to do the file removal chores. I had already determined all the files using "sudo find / -iname '*av*' -print", but I didn't want to have to grep all plists and config files to see if something was left dangling. Problem now fixed. Thanks again!

I turned on my computer this morning, and instantly got an Avira alert saying a threat has been detected and that some files had been quarantined.I go into the Avira quarantine section and find 32,000 files there, all from the wolfram/mathematica folder on my computer. I click on the mathematica shortcut on my computer and get a pop-up windows saying "The item 'Mathematica.exe' that this shortcut refers to has been moved or changed, do you want to delete the shortcut?"

No, I couldn't, so I just reinstalled mathematica. But then the question is what happened with the registry when avira quarantined the files? Did it remove mathematica from registry? Did it really thorougly clean it? It feels like something was left behind as my mathematica system settings don't seem to stick.

I have the same issue with Cubase and Wavelab files. few hours ago Avira removed 6050 of my files to quarentine.what can be done? in order to restore I need to click "ok" for avira message 6050 times (so annoying!)

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