Does Your Antivirus Software Do This? - Comments Page 2

@Bruce Fraser: Regarding false positives, that's a red herring in my opinion. The programs on the "false positive" list are edge cases that you won't find on most consumer computers.

Here's a quote from PCMatic support forum: "In our case, Virus Bulletin had about one million good files, and PC Matic incorrectly identified about a thousand. This represents a .1% error rate or 99.9% white list accuracy rate. 99.9% accuracy is rather good, but the false positive rate our customers experience is better. When PC Matic blocks a potentially good file, the sample goes to our research team, and it is re-categorized in less than 24 hours. So in the unlikely event of a false positive, it effects one and only one customer."

I read with interest a host of positive comments re PCMatic from users who say they have been well protected by it. However I suspect any of us using a halfway decent AV program would say the same. I have used the free version of Avira for many years without experiencing any probs but also do occasional checks with MBAM. I maybe have had one false positive in that time on Avira and have run into the known MBAM rejection of Advanced System Care as a PUP, which I have ignored but otherwise all has been fine,