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Trojan Horse False Positive

Submitted by cw1925 on April 1, 2009 - 10:56pm

I have the latest AVG updates, and can't use 7-zip due to a false positive trojan horse.
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So, what should I do?

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report it to Grisoft and let

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Zach Thibeau (Homepage) - April 1, 2009 - 10:58pm

report it to Grisoft and let them know it's a false positive Smiling and once they update their definitions you should be all set

until then you may need to set some exceptions in avg to enable the use of 7-zip

The day Microsoft produces something that doesn't suck is
probably the day they start producing vaccuum cleaners. (author unknown)

I reported it to AVG too!

JRViejo - April 2, 2009 - 1:13am

I had the same situation with AVG 8.5.285 today and running that identical file, via VirusTotal.com, shows AVG as the only AV program reporting it as a Trojan. Hopefully, AVG will act on it soon!

Done!

JRViejo - April 2, 2009 - 12:30pm

Received an email from AVG this morning and the latest Virus DB 270.11.38/2037 corrects the False Positive:

Dear Sir/Madam,

Thank you for your email.

Unfortunately, the previous virus database might have detected the mentioned virus on some legitimate applications. We can confirm that it was a false alarm. We will release a new virus update that will remove the false positive detection on this file. Please update your AVG and check your files again.

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