Avast reports Verizon speed optimizer as a WIN32:EVO-gen virus

I've tried to install the Verizon speed optimizer tool from http://my.verizon.com/services/SpeedOptimizer/FiOS/FiosOptimizerDownload.aspx?CusType=
74.107.187.63?
When I try to install it, Avast blocks it as a WIN32:EVO-gen virus, I've tried to add it to the avast excluded from scan list, it will not let me install this, My computer was infected by the vista 2010 security virus when the tech tried to install in home agent from his flash drive, which took me a day and 1/2 to get my computer back online and clean, so I don't really want to push my luck here and list it as a false positive and run it, has anyone else had this with their antivirus program?

I find it hard to imagine that if you're getting the Optimizer tool from the actual website, the Optimizer is to blame. Yet again, it could have a vulnerability in it that resulted in the Antivirus 2010 infection you had. Likewise that's a common thing for Internet Explorer to catch anyways, especially with out of date plug-ins.
Many have run the Optimizer without an issue, myself included, but to tell the truth, unless you're not getting your full speed to any website and you're running an operating system older than Windows Vista (basically, if you have a Windows XP machine) you shouldn't need to run the Optimizer.
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Good Day and thanks for reading!
This issue may sound improbable but, please hear me out. To begin my network has 2 Windows 7 x64 PCs connected to the modem/router via Ethernet, a wireless laptop, a wireless PS3, 2 android smart phones and a tablet running on Wifi. (usually not all at the same time)
Everything had been working properly until I recently did a clean (re)install of Windows on one of the PCs with a wired connection. After getting back to the desktop I did a couple required updates installed Norton 360 then downloaded and ran the Verizon Speed Optimizer (http://my.verizon.com/services/speedoptimizer/fios/).
This was the first time I'd ever ran the vz speed optimizer, I only did it on a whim.. I figured it couldn't hurt. The program only took a second to complete and everything seemed normal at first; internet speeds seemed as fast as normal.
It wasn't until next day I noticed all the wireless devices in the house started having connectivity issues whenever that PC was running; even at idle. The PS3 would drop the PSN connection regularly and take forever to reconnect, the tablet and phones download speeds were unusable and also intermittent. I could shut down that PC, restart the tablet/PS3/etc and have them working normally.
After a little research I ended up re-running the optimizer program and at the end clicked 'undo settings to defaults' hoping that would resolve the issue. Afterwards I unplugged the modem for 60 seconds hoping a reset would put everything back to normal but it hasn't.. When that PC is running, everything else on the network has constant connectivity issues.
Is it possible the speed optimizer program did something to the wireless settings of the modem, or somehow gave that one Windows PC dominance over the network? I was under the impression the optimizer would change a couple local settings on that machine. I can't think of a reason why it would effect the entire network, (most evident on the wireless devices).
Any ideas or suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

I promised I would post a solution to this if found so..
As I set up my wireless laptop next to the wired PC in preparation to call Verizon tech support, I remembered a handy app I had on my phone.. Wifi Analyzer.
I checked the range of wireless signals the the app picked up and low-and-behold, there were two new wifi signals of decent strength operating in the same channel (1) that I was set up in! (I hadn't checked this since I first set up my router over a year ago and the apartment building next door is always getting new people)
This was totally unacceptable! The app showed that channel 11 had only a single, very weak signal in the area and recommended I switch to that. After logging into the router and doing so, it was as if all the wireless tech in my house was instantly given new life!
I could once again be downloading a game from Steam on a wired PC, steaming netflix on the wireless PS3, watching a YouTube video on my phone, all while the wireless laptop was downloading (way too many) windows updates.
Solution: Regularly monitor the amount of congestion in the channel your wireless is operating in. This is especially important if your reside in or near a rental/leasing property that often has people moving in and out.
Changing the wifi channel on your router is easy, fast and not scary at all. It could save you a lot of headaches.

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If you really want to know your true day to day speeds sign up for www.samknows.com I'm subscribed to SamKnows that is a free resource for consumers and volunteers. Their goal is to embed software suite into internet enabled devices to build the most accurate picture of global broadband performance. I am a participant & I get a report card that measures my speed etc....
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This is just a shot in the dark but when you were running the speed test(s) on your Mac, did you have any Windows 10 machines shut down? If not, and if you haven't disabled Windows 10's default bandwidth sharing setting, you might be experiencing bandwidth usage as explained in this article: http://www.computerworld.com/article/2955288/microsoft-windows/windows-10-commandeers-users-upload-bandwidth.html

Verizon Speed Test

I have tried running the Verizon speed test on both Chrome and Firefox both become non responsive. I have no idea what code Verizon runs but it sure plays havoc on the browsers. Both ask permission to run JAVA which I approve, but still locks up.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Sounds like Java being Java to me. Always loving to break itself or something else.
Just re-install Java, after of course checking your Firewalls. Verizon's speed test operates on the Web100/NDT testing system which is pretty robust.
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Hello,
Transaction Time (Client Exprerience) report does not show optimized traffic. For this graph what we expect is to show side by side the transaction time of optimized and non optimized traffic side by side to give information about the baseline and optimized application performance.
May it be that the optimization should be disabled for some time for the Wan Sites, and after some time manually reenabled in order to compare these values? This should be difficult for large deployments since manually disabling and reenabling for performance analysis time taking task.
Best Regards,

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[email protected]

Trying to stream movies on tv - What Verizon speed do I need?

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Add a "Quick Import" and allow Database speed optimization

I would like an option to open individual files alongside the library system. Allow people to use the Develop module on single files, and export them without having to add them to the database... or there could be a temporary part of the database where they are stored in, and the user can customize the length of time they're stored in the database. This may give people who are wary of the database/importation system more incentive to use lightroom. Also, user configurable options (or a wizard) to optimize the speed of the database, such as mass removing files from the database (but not deleting) that have not been accessed for a determined amount of time, or to automatically back those files up in an archive and delete/remove them from the database.
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Thinking about it honestly, I think you're right. I don't think Adobe LR designers are being highly presumptuous, because I have never been in contact with them. However, I have read some posts on this message board, and it appears that very little is getting through to adobe. For example, some responses by Jeff Schewe have shown a resistance to changing the workflow of LR, even though others have wanted more flexibility with the interface. I'm not sure if he directly works for Adobe, but he generally shoots down any idea that doesn't fit the LR/importation - PS/single file work paradigm.
For example:
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Then use Camera Raw 4 and be done with it...if Lightroom doesn't fit in your workflow, it's foolish to try to force it in. That's why there's Camera Raw with Bridge and Photoshop."
original post:
http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx/.3bc632a8/0
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http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx/.3bc4b6d9/0
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You're right, it's not a whole lot different. I wanted to put my two cents in on how the process could be sped up for an alternate workflow. It saves a few steps, and I value that. Others value saving extra steps, such as the latter example above. I am suggesting an idea to speed up the importation/develop process, although it does not necessarily have to work the way I wrote it. One of Lightroom's biggest faults currently is a lack of speed, and I felt at the time of posting that it might stimulate some new discussion or ideas about improving Lightroom. One being an alternative, streamlined importation, and an automated process that cleans the library afterwards to your configured preferences... which might improve the slowdown that many experience when masses of inactive files clutter their database.
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DSL Details
Down Up
Modem Type:
Built in modem - ADSL
DSL Line (Wire Pair):
Line 1 (inner pair)
Current DSL Connection:
Rate:
920 kbs
307 kbs
Max Rate:
1045 kbs
308 kbs
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Attenuation:
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50.6 dB
Output Power:
15.6 dBm
12.3 dBm
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G.DMT2 Annex A
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DSLAM Vendor Information
Country: {46336} Vendor: {IFTN} Specific: {48753 }
ATM PVC:
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Rate Cap:
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Attenuation @ 300kHz:
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Uncanceled Echo:
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3.9 ppm
Ok
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Ok
Excessive Impulse Noise:
0
Ok
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Bytes Packets Errors %Cells Errors %
IP Traffic
Transmit:
280943
85
0
0
Receive:
1029031
1902
0
0
ATM Traffic
Transmit:
13884793
0
0
Receive:
190771077
0
0
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Since
Current
Current
Time Since
ATM
Last Event
Cell Header Errors
3089825
2012
266
0:03:04
Loss of cell Delineation
1696593
905
219
0:03:04
DSL
Link Retrains:
168
1
1
0:03:03
DSL Training Errors:
20509
1
1
0:02:42
Training Timeouts:
10
0
0
2Days7:41:49
Loss of Framing Failures:
8762
2
2
0:03:04
Loss of Signal Failures:
222
2
2
0:03:04
Loss of Power Failures:
0
0
0
0:00:00
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9643
2
2
0:03:04
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148988
1479
12
0:03:04
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12
6
0:03:04
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5962805
546100
2507
0:00:01
Uncorrectable Blocks:
3639124
2803
277
0:03:04
DSL Unavailable Seconds:
210667
42
42
0:02:24
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Mike

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