I listen to a lot of Satellite radio (I’m a big Stern fan) and while listening the past few days (9-08-09 through 9-10-09) I’ve been completely annoyed by a misleading…scratch that…completely false commercial for a product called Double AntiSpy (in the commercial they say something like…”and ya know it’s the best because CNET and PC Mag have rated it #1″….complete BS!!!)
The reason that I say this commercial on the radio for Double AntiSpy is false\fake is because as of this moment Double AntiSpy isn’t even listed on CNET / PC Mag, much less #1.
Personally, I stay away from ANY program that lies about its rating.
Figure 1 – CNET Search for Double AntiSpy
Figure 2 – PCmag.com Search for Double AntiSpy
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And is it a rouge?
I have no idea, but they’re using completely false statements in their advertising.
ahhhhh…..stupid commercial is on right now…3:10 pm cst
My nis2010 reported it as a good site but i reported it just in case.
They don’t even have contact details. It definitely seems like a rogue to me.
AH!, Avanquest is at it again. With there lies and crappy software. One of my customers bought there software. I promptly told them to reconsider and return it for something better.
I would NEVER buy software that does not offer a trial version at least. Their site does not feel trustworthy either. I have reported their site a bad on WOT
It’s just like the finallyfast.com crap! I put it as bad on wot too for false advertising.
It is very misleading, but possibly not false. They claim that they are using 2 engines and that the 2 engines are award winning. The problem is they do not say which engine it is so who knows if it is true. They also say it in a way to make it sound like they are the award winners.
Its not really a rouge well at least not yet but it make false claims but they have contact information at http://www.avanquest.com
I would not trust there info anyone can give out false info check to see if there phone number is correct and there state of location.
They seem to remove the pcmag and cnet ratings already.. And they are a legitimate company who has won awards. They couldn’t have done such a thing.
I just bought a copy…I’ll see if it works. It’s scanning now and finding a lot of malware!
@Benny!
ahahahaah yea? And those malwares it founds is real malware of course? !-)
Benny you bought the product? I hope you where useing pay pal when you bought it if you where useing a card you could be loseing thousands of dollars right now.
No…don’t have paypal…I just used my debit card for my bank savings account.
but why would you waste $29 on a product that might not even work?
@Ryan
…because I wanted to test it out.
The scan completed and found 237 traces of malware on a system that came up clean after Kaspersky scanned it. So much for Kaspersky protecting me.
kaspersky must be going down hill or there false positives.
@benny…ha, I wouldn’t remove a thing. Does it give you the option to just make a log of what it found?
I’m sure they’re false positives
or just cookies
don’t see a log option….not cookies, but trojans and rootkits. Wow! No wonder it’s number 1!
lol…right.
….I smell bs
Ya there just tryin to scare u rouge uses the same technique kaspersky is arguably the best av out there. I wouldn’t believe this piece of crap.
You can advertise ANY Program eventhough its fake on radio there??? Rarely heard of an advertisement about any software in Radio stations in my country…
Well,it doesn’t seem to be a rogue after all…I tested it in a vmware machine.In a clean machine it didn’t find anything(if it was a rogue,it would find a banch of stuff,right?).Then I put it to scan some malware and it has a pretty decent detection rate.Of cource it is havy and slow,but at least it isn’t a fake program.
the program uses the engines VIPRE (CounterSpy) and Outpost antimalware (Outpost AntiSpyware + VirusBuster)
http://www.vipreantivirus.com/
http://www.agnitum.com/products/antivirus/
http://www.virusbuster.hu/en/
Matt I don’t think it’s lying about the rating. If you could be a little calmer and had installed it on your VM you would have found it’s using CounterSpy’s and Spyware Doctor’s engines. Those two were “the best technology”, “the first rated” on CNET and PCmag, right? It’s just an OEM, just like G-DATA with BitDefender and Kaspersky.
I mean, BitDefender and avast!
Benny if you want to spend money on a antispyware program buy Counterspy from Sunbelt Software it’s only $20.00 a yr and will give you solid protection.
hmm isn’t this breaking of law?
Looks like you had an impact…the PC World false advertising is now gone.
I will rather buy a life time subscription of malwarebytes or superantispyware than counterspy
@azlan96:
If you have money you can do anything you want.
@Benny
That ” 237 traces of malware” are all fake !
you never haded on your computer… !trust me
Iam using defensewall and sandboxie with out any firewall. is there any reason to get a firewall or am i ok with out it.
I don’t think Matt ever tested Counterspy from Sunbelt Software,why I don’t know. I believe it’s in the top 3 Antispyware programs out there. I know it’s good at removing Rogue AV’s and other nasty’s. I have used it to remove Super Antispyware Master that Eset Smart Security couldn’t even fine. I trust it and use it.
Ok, first of all you guys do even know its a rouge. you have’nt even used it. I don’t really buy products online I can get it at stores like staples and right now i use ca internet security suite plus 2009, it comes with my isp and it reports http://www.avanquest.com as a safe site, even mcafee site advisor does.
P.S. Don’t judge software by how it looks.
@Clinon and others – I never thought it was a rogue, I simply said their radio advertisement stated it (Double AntiSpy) was rated #1 by CNET and PC Mag when in fact it was NOT (it wasn’t even listed).
They where false advertising there product and saying they where better than all other just like cyber defender bluepoint security.
I clicked on “Run a free scan” and it asked me to download a 190 MB file. WTF?!
For the record, I hate the commercial on Sirius and I distrust any software that needs to advertise on Stern’s show, even though I like Stern’s show.
As for it not being on CNet, it is listed. You have to search for “double anti-spy” with the hyphen. That’s the way the product is spelled. It comes up with one hit, but the hit is not CNet rated. So they are still untruthful about that.
Even that search term doesn’t come up on PC Mag though.
Get a mac. Problem solved