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fourthletterDec 3rd 2009 9:40AM

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Something tells me if you add up all the Delphi developers in the world and subtract the amount who are not using Avast leaves you with a very small amount of people, especially considering your headline "goes on a false positive spree" Thats quite a "spree" none of the 3 machines I own running it have had any problems at all and even if i did Avast fixed this in a couple of hours.

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MarkyB86Dec 3rd 2009 9:47AM

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+1 amen brother

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(Unverified)Dec 3rd 2009 11:08AM

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Just because yours didn't get infected, doesn't mean millions of other people didn't get affected. I would say the author of this article definitely pinned the term correctly as a "spree" because it seriously was calling out all sorts of programs constantly as a trojan. That is a spree if it is calling out tons of false positives for no reason. Also, if you read the forums that was posted OUTSIDE of Avast's forum and on Avast's forums, there were many cases of users not knowing what to do because their computer was detecting so many false positives.

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(Unverified)Dec 3rd 2009 6:07PM

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FYI Delphi is a popular dev tool in financial sector, then there's Skype on Windows and there's probably one or two apps in this list that many people have used ..

http://delphi.wikia.com/wiki/Good_Quality_Applications_Built_With_Delphi

This ended up not being a problem for most in the US as it was patched around 6am Pacific Time but caused havoc in places like Australia.

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