Any software alternative to PhoneTray?

Funny – I run Avast as my anti-virus and have no trouble with it deleting Phone Tray Free. Try reinstalling it.

just buy a digitone and you'll never have to worry about this stuff again

Will you ever give up on the Digitone spam?

There's no need to spend $100 on a device to block calls as there are many less expensive options. Even some free ones.

If you are interested in replacing/upgrading your phone many are now available with blocking features and the ability to block a lot of numbers.

The T-lock Incoming PRO Call Blocker sells for under 60 bucks on Amazon and can block up to 1500 numbers.

You can set up a Google phone account for free (with easily configurable call blocking) and get your home calls forwarded there.

If you have a home office or just have a home computer on most of the time Phone Tray Free software  may work for you. As the name implies, it's free. They no longer have the free version on the company web site but it's widely available via torrent.

No need to send the Digitone spammer any of your hard earned money.

Does  Phonetray 1.39 work with windows vista??

Is it still available from legit sources?

I'll ask my friend about that problem with the paid version-might be able to get you some info if it's legit or not

What EXACTLY was the name of the supposed virus? I use avast! and the thing lists trusted files as DECOMPRESSION bombs!

Wow, I've never even heard the term "decompression bomb"! The Avast web site says "A decompression bomb is a file that unpacks to an enormous amount of data - thus "flooding" the unpacking engine. It's quite hard to detect such files reliably, so it's possible that it gives some false alarms occasionally". (http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=8943.0)

Avast does indeed show my compressed PhoneTray installation file as a "decompression bomb" when I scan it, but it raised no alarms when I installed it and all the decompressed files also scan as clean. I'm confident this is just one of those occasional false alarms.

I use Avast also. Never had a problem with it, ran AVG for awhile, and it tended to list stuff false positive on occasion.

I have used phonetray since 2010.  It WORKED well, almost perfectly in the beginning and after training it to block specific types of calls, i.e. private, out of area, N/A, 800, 888, 866 and so forth it was adequate.  Then, telling it to block keywords within the caller-id helped even more.  i.e. words like credit, security, travel, vacation, your power company...  

I have the luxury of having an old unused computer and quiet spot in the basement to put it. Hooked it up to a dial-up modem, placed the other end of the line into a never used jack in the basement wall and that was that.  I even set the computer to be remotely accessed in order to make the necessary adjustments to the phonetray program as required.

It all came to a screeching halt when I decided verizon was too incompetent and too expensive for my taste and left that wondrous world of the big telco company for voip.  Voip was GREAT.  Easy to hook up and integrated seamlessly with phonetray.  Problem was, calls that used to reliably show-up as N/A (which were blocked), during Verizon's tenure, now actually showed up with a location, number and BS caller-id name. Training went out the window.  Crap calls returned from a 98% block average to about 50%  

Voipo, the company I use, has an option to block and filter at their end first. They also have a list of "telemarketing" numbers that can be automatically blocked just by enabling that (free) feature.  I did that as well as adding the most troublesome numbers that have returned since moving to voip into Voipo's list. Phonetray mops up the rest.

I am now back to maybe 95% blocking 6 months into voip telephones and still training it.

The 5% that still somehow do get through, are ALWAYS sorry they did!!!     ;-)

My friend says that if a product has to 'phone home' to install it isn't really doing that. What it IS doing is grabbing your data and SENDING it to them. You did the right thing by not getting the paid version!
And don't get me started on false alarms with avast-I get like 20 of them every day from GunCraft-a game on Steam.

I would warn you about using AVG-the damn thing kept taking over my computer while running daily scans and I would have to do a hard shutdown, which corrupted the Windows boot file and made it hard to even boot up-good thing I have such a talented friend!

Avast seems to have gotten "buggy" after upgrading to 2014. On their forum site many people are complaining that it was rushed out, with little testing. Seems to crash ie11 (on the 2% of the time we have to use it instead of Firefox). I have found nothing, paid or unpaid, that beats Phonetray's free version. What other way can you block 999 out of 1000 area codes? And then block 9,999,999 numbers in your own area code (if you only wanted one number to call you).

Um, since WHEN does AVAST! block calls?!

I think its more a case of Avast interfering and giving a false positive on programs, in this case, the phone tray! Creates problems where this is none.  As I mentioned above, I had AVG do that, but so far not avast (knocks on wood)...