GoodBye HMP Forever

[Dieselman]

Well after my last bought with HMP and after several emails I decided to try it again. I like the scanning speed and it was great for them to come up with there own shortcut patch before Microsoft did. But thats about it. You all know my last thread and well SurfRight confirmed it with other complaints so it was not just me. I uninstalled SAS and was only using MBAM and HMP for second opinion scanning. Everything was fine. I ran about 5 scans with no problems. So tonight I as over my girlfriends house and decided to install HMP on her Asus laptop. Well guess what it found...........................2 ROOTKITS.

Could this be..................Could NIS,MBAM and SAS miss these all along. Yeah good be. Could they be false positives...................maybe. So I Googled both the files that HMP informed me about which were apparently rootkits. I dont remember the file names nor does it matter cause after Googling them and finding them in the registry I knew what they were. BOTH were related to her Asus laptop. One was for her sound and the other was Asus Doctor. Go figure. Yet another false positive situation on behalf of HMP. That makes about a total of 20 false positives HMP has found since I starting using it. Well I decided to uninstall it off her laptop and maybe I will still keep it on mine. I came home and opened up HMP and did a scan. While it was scanning I was SHOCKED. Guess what HMP told me..................I had no anti virus so I better buy one of these it recommends. What a scam. What a joke of a product. Heck I would rather use CAV over this garbage product. Here is the screen shot to prove it. HMP will never ever be on my laptop ever again nor will I use it to scan a customers pc.



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[TKFlight]

Did the same thing to me. My mom was having problems with her PC, scanned it with MBAM/SAS/NPS and nothing. Scanned with HMP and 3 root-kits came up. I hit the drop down arrow and it was PrevX saying it was "High Risk Cloaked Malware". Searched the files found out that the files were for a program on here Toshiba laptop. It also said that she had no AV when the Vista security center said that her AV was on and up to date. Ended up finding out that she just needed a simple defrag.

[ALookingInView]

The No AV Detected alert draws directly from the Windows Security Center/Action Center.
It's a new feature so it's only natural if it's buggy for some.

IKARUS, Emsisoft, and Prevx are all notorious for false positives.
The current engine set isn't v3's best lineup to-date, it's actually the worst, and FPs are just one reason.
Anyway, any product that utilizes 6 different engines should give you around 6x the number of FPs.

[LochNess]

I uninstalled HMP last week... it identified 'itself' as a threat... go figure... I'm not a PC Guru, but that does seem a bit 'weird'... even for me...

[Dieselman]

You mean this happened to you also Lochness?

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[TKFlight]

I liked HMP. But I removed it from my tools, I don't want to sit there and find whats malware and whats not. I'll just stick to MBAM/SAS/NPS/Dr. Web.

[virtu]

Just scan once a week and don't bother with it. You can't rely on it to be your first line of defense cause it's not. I don't know why do you even start a topic about it Diesel ,as long as you have NIS!

[Dieselman]

No matter what security you have you still need a second opinion.

[virtu]

If you can see in HitMan there are at least 5 products that there are known for FP's so just ignore them and use the free version. I don't have this problem but i'm scanning just once a week, maybe they fix them in this period.

[Dieselman]

Of course I was using the free version. Why would I pay for garbage like this. By me posting this is also good info for our members. Its a warning of why not to use products that produce false positives.