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    ESET still detectink Ask! toolbar

    in ESET NOD32 Antivirus

    Posted · Edited by novice

    That's what makes ESET special! Why would you want them to just be average like all the other antiviruses?? You can always disable PUA if you don't want the detections. ESET should continue to detect all PUA!

    A detection rate of 1 from 45 makes ESET rather odd than special!

    ESET still detectink Ask! toolbar

    in ESET NOD32 Antivirus

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    It's correct to detect the mentioned toolbar as PUA. Most likely other vendors simply don't focus on PUA as detection of these applications requires a lot of work in terms of research or communication with vendors.

    Hi Marcos,

     

    you  may want to read this:

    hxxp://forums.malwarebytes.org/index.php?showtopic=128290

     

     

    "... but as far as I know, we've [ MBAM ] never detected Ask. Ask is pretty much on par with Google and MSN/MS Bing as far as toolbars go. They always have an opt-out option in software installers and don't really do much other than show you search results from their search engine and gather statistical data (which all search engines do anyway, even if not using their toolbar as that's how they rank results and gauge the popularity of links/websites and handle their 'targeted' adverts)."

     

    Is not like " other vendors simply don't focus on PUA " but rather they do not want to have an unnecessary detection; I simply cannot understand why, if nobody else on AV industry is detecting Ask! as PUA , ESET would continue to do it!  

    ESET still detectink Ask! toolbar

    in ESET NOD32 Antivirus

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    How many users actively search for Ask! toolbar because they know it's cool software and want to have it on their own computer?

    I think most of people searching internet for Ask toolbar want to find a way to get rid of it.

    Hi,

     

    While I agree with you that Ask! toolbar is not a desirable item, most of the time Ask! toolbar is bundled together with a free item and removing it will make the item nonfunctional , or there is an option to not install it from the beginning; once you agree wit installation , is no longer a P"Unwanted"A .

     

    Anyway ESET is the only one which is still detecting Ask! toolbar , so I doubt that everyone else is wrong but ESET.

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