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False Positive Totalav #756

Closed scafroglia93 closed 2 years ago

scafroglia93 commented 2 years ago

totalav.com

notracking commented 2 years ago

Thanks! Added to the whitelist, changes will be visible after the next auto update.

29039 commented 2 years ago

@notracking Please take TotalAV OFF the whitelist and put it onto the blacklist. It is NOT a false positive. Google for "TotalAV Scam" and you find from various discussion forums that even though it is actual antivirus software (using Avira engine), they are notorious for using scams to get people to buy it through affiliates and keep charging far more than the agreed price.

29039 commented 2 years ago

@scafroglia93

scafroglia93 commented 2 years ago

So, what's the issue ?

Totalav is legit company

iam-py-test commented 2 years ago

So, what's the issue ?

Totalav is legit company

Evidence? This company is very shady. i.e. https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/42047d9bd1c0a9ffda3b38dc9e7e95d809a5b7f4b345dce42088d0ada486f6fb/community https://www.mywot.com/scorecard/totalav.com https://blog.malwarebytes.com/detections/pup-optional-totalav/ https://safeweb.norton.com/reviews?url=totalav.com

An example of their scam ads: https://app.any.run/tasks/85cfa904-06c4-4603-82ec-7a3db8db8df9 (NSFW)

29039 commented 2 years ago

@scafroglia93 Extra evidence:

https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topic/242780-totalav-registered-as-pup/ https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/totalav.392399/ https://www.productreview.com.au/listings/total-av See the comments: https://securitygladiators.com/totalav-review-worth-reading/ https://review.easycounter.com/totalav-scam-report https://shackfeel.com/totalav/ https://newsonlineincome.com/totalav/ https://www.logitheque.com/en/articles/total-av-a-product-closer-to-a-scam-than-an-antivirus-13218 https://malwaretips.com/threads/total-av-is-it-a-scam.80362/ https://trojan-killer.net/remove-totalav/ https://www.bbb.org/us/ca/venice/profile/computer-software/total-av-antivirus-1216-716805/complaints https://www.reddit.com/r/antivirus/comments/dwlnlf/totalav_scam/ https://www.austech.info/showthread.php/122563-Bull-Crap-Scamming-Domain-Names!!!?p=859437 https://www.viruspup.com/kb/is-total-av-safe.html Mostly fake reviews: https://www.trustpilot.com/review/totalav.com https://old.reddit.com/r/antivirus/search?q=totalav&restrict_sr=on&sort=relevance&t=all

notracking commented 2 years ago

Moved it to the blocklist again, thanks for the sources. Obvious scam company.