3.5.2115.87 downloading videos and images fail {AVAST}

[Cinydue]

@Dancer18 said in 3.5.2115.87 downloading videos and images fail:

@Cinydue Why do you prefer a portable version on PC?
It is a nice feature for OS on usb-stick...

I prefer the use of various portable installations, for the following:
1- Professional / Privacy: Some invasive sites like facebook are isolated on a single browser. I also keep the "serious" contents simple with those of pure "free time"
2- I have to make a new PC and portable browsers are useful for having ready the tools I use to navigate
3- Experiments

[Dancer18]

@Cinydue Thank you very much. You have broadened my horizons here.

[Cinydue]

@Dancer18 said in 3.5.2115.87 downloading videos and images fail:

Thank you very much. You have broadened my horizons here

Np I often use portable software to have an easy migration of some tools. Portableapps is a collection of software made portable, it mainly collects open source or freeware software.

Little update:
The previous version of Vivaldi does not have the problem mentioned in this topic, solved yesterday by avast itself (maybe).
I tested the other portable installations not updated to the current version and the problem did not arise, compared to the new version recently released. Why, I wonder.

[Cinydue]

@Cinydue said in 3.5.2115.87 downloading videos and images fail:

@Dancer18 said in 3.5.2115.87 downloading videos and images fail:

Thank you very much. You have broadened my horizons here

Np I often use portable software to have an easy migration of some tools. Portableapps is a collection of software made portable, it mainly collects open source or freeware software.

Little update:
The previous version of Vivaldi does not have the problem mentioned in this topic, solved yesterday by avast itself (maybe).
I tested the other portable installations not updated to the current version and the problem did not arise, compared to the new version recently released. Why, I wonder.

Small update: Since this morning, even the 3.6 does not give problems to avast, the problem seems to have disappeared for now, I hope that in future updates of vivaldi, the conflict does not happen yet.

I would suggest the browser development team to work with the avast team to solve the problem, once it's a case, twice, it seems like a well reproducible problem.

[Cinydue]

@Gwen-Dragon said in 3.5.2115.87 downloading videos and images fail {AVAST}:

The Vivaldi developer team team is small and can not check Vivaldi with all security tools before releasing a version.
The real problem is the incorrect virus database or behaviuor checking of the anti-virus.
Users should ask in Vivaldi Forum first if this is a Vivaldi bug, then tell Avast support about the incompatibility of Avast, then at least report a bug to Vivaldi bug tracker

They are aware that there are few of you and you cannot do everything.
In fact I have discovered this conflict and I hope that a solution will be found in the future, unfortunately it seems that the problem is independent of you, but if despite the reports to avast, the problem returns, then you have to take the avast team by the ears

[Ayespy]

@Cinydue "Great" idea, but it is not practicable for Vivaldi to work one-on-one with every anti-malware vendor. In fact, it is up to these vendors to stay abreast of the threat environment and begin to recognize that Vivaldi is a browser and a valid application, and stop blocking it. In fact, Vivaldi has in the past communicated with more than one AV provider with only limited success. If you are not MS, Apple or Google, they do not want to hear from you.

[Cinydue]

@Gwen-Dragon said in 3.5.2115.87 downloading videos and images fail {AVAST}:

@Cinydue said in 3.5.2115.87 downloading videos and images fail {AVAST}:

it seems that the problem is independent of you, but if despite the reports to avast, the problem returns, then you have to take the avast team by the ears

We are not so rude to harm their ears.

But if Avast likes their users and customers, they should contact Vivaldi devs

I am at the third report for false positive, because the problem has reoccurred again (failure of the download of images and videos, installer seen as ramsoware), maybe I am unlucky that I still use windows 7, LOL.

@Ayespy said in 3.5.2115.87 downloading videos and images fail {AVAST}:

"Great" idea, but it is not practicable for Vivaldi to work one-on-one with every anti-malware vendor. In fact, it is up to these vendors to stay abreast of the threat environment and begin to recognize that Vivaldi is a browser and a valid application, and stop blocking it. In fact, Vivaldi has in the past communicated with more than one AV provider with only limited success. If you are not MS, Apple or Google, they do not want to hear from you.

I'm sorry they don't consider you yet, I've read very positive articles about your browser, especially with the latest version, seeing these problems from security companions looking into the far corners of the web is really unfair. With other chrome-like browsers there are no such problems, I had tried SWiron and the "fake" opera, both portable and work regularly. I wonder what triggers this incompatibility.

(Surely you have noticed, but I am using google translate to communicate with you, my English skills are very embarrassing)

[Ayespy]

@Cinydue said in 3.5.2115.87 downloading videos and images fail {AVAST}:

I wonder what triggers this incompatibility.

Heuristic engines and human laziness.

[Ayespy]

@Gwen-Dragon Good term.

[Priest72]

Personally i would dump avast and use the complete comodo internet security suite.Pretty damn bulletproof when i used it last.

[Cinydue]

@Ayespy said in 3.5.2115.87 downloading videos and images fail {AVAST}:

@Cinydue said in 3.5.2115.87 downloading videos and images fail {AVAST}:

I wonder what triggers this incompatibility.

Heuristic engines and human laziness.

Say "dullness" to make the same mistake 3 times. Did any of the team have any doubts? Maybe with the next version of avast they fix this nuisance.

@Gwen-Dragon said in 3.5.2115.87 downloading videos and images fail {AVAST}:

@Ayespy Others like Security Reseachers would call such broken heuristic feature of a security tool: "Snakeoil".

@Cinydue For me a software tool which blocks and/or crashes signed software of a company, i would call that: Malware.

Like certain DRMs on pc games, LOL

@Priest72 said in 3.5.2115.87 downloading videos and images fail {AVAST}:

Personally i would dump avast and use the complete comodo internet security suite.Pretty damn bulletproof when i used it last.

I have been using Comodo firewall for a lifetime and at least in the past it was among the best around, but as an antivirus, no.

Comodo occasionally messes with its HIPS, blocking legitimate applications or windows components. I also remember that they made a mess with the predecessor versions of windows 10, when 7 and 8 were still fully supported.