AVG Detected A Trogan Named
Generic3.FGK
Can Someone Please Explain This To Me And Why In The World Does This Have A Trogan In It..... :|
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False positive. Unless multiple different virus scanners detect it as an issue, it is most likely a false positive. This has happened quite a bit with AVG and Sophos. Both tend to detect occasional issues in the portable apps themselves, but after checking these issues with several other scanners, i.e. TrendMicro, AVAST, Symantec, McAfee,... one can usually confirm that it is in fact a false positive.
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Ok, Thanks
But If Someone Can Check It Out With Something Different Than AVG That Would Be Nice.
TY For The Info.
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Na na na, come on!
I hate to be the bearer of 'bad news', but I just got another virus warning on this app from Symantec on my work machine (scanning my external drive). It is reporting 'Hacktool.Flooder'. It may indeed be a false positive, but since the author is on site here often, I figured this was a good place to add the info. Symantec also reported 'Action taken: Clean failed : Quarantine failed : Delete succeeded : Access denied'. That may give some useful info on what the underlying problem is.
I've sent an email to Symantec, will update when they respond.
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Please follow the antivirus false positive procedures listed on the support and contact pages. Reports should not be posted unless you have personally verified that it is identified as a virus/spyware by AT LEAST 2 different antivirus products. There are two different online scanners linked to. And you can also use ClamWin Portable. Without a report of at least 2 products detecting it, your report will not be investigated further.
There are simply too many false positives by all the random antivirus packages out there -- especially the freeware ones. It's simply a waste of time for us to investigate all the uncorroborated ones.
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ok...
but avg wont let me download it..... how do i get it :|
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"PortableApps.com Lets Me Bring More Stuff To My Computer, Not Just Other Computers. Because My Computer Only Has 1GB Left" - dbdii407
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- U3 1GB Flash Drive
Na na na, come on!
AVG won't let you download ClamWin? If that is the case, adjust your settings in AVG and make them a little less strict. Or report to AVG that they are detecting several false positives. In your message to them, include the file it is incorrectly detecting, where you download the file from, and quote the entire error message for them.
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i have clamwin portable i ment driveVar ss
Na na na, come on!
Simple... temporarily disable it. Download the suspect app but DO NOT run it. Then scan it with ClamWin Portable, etc.
You can't get infected with a virus by downloading an infected EXE. Only by running it.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
ok
Na na na, come on!
I finally received a response from Symantec.
I'm posting it here mostly for peace of mind for the user.
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From: Security Risk Inquiries (Security_Risk_Inquiries@symantec.com)
To: {email address removed} see my profile.
Date: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 4:21:22 AM
Subject: Dispute Submission
We are writing in relation to your submission through Symantec's on-line Security Risk / False Positive Dispute Submission form for your DriveVar software version 1.x being detected by Symantec Software. In light of further investigation and analysis Symantec is happy to remove this detection from within its products. The updated detection will be distributed in the next set of virus definitions, available daily, or weekly via LiveUpdate, depending on Symantec product version, or daily from our website at http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/defs.download.html. Decisions made by Symantec are subject to change if alterations to the Software are made over time or as classification criteria and/or the policy employed by Symantec changes over time to address the evolving landscape. Sincerely, Symantec Security Response http://securityresponse.symantec.com
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says it's a trojan, too. It says it's generic.dc
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Please don't bump 5 month old posting with no more interest in them.
I'll come back and delete these comment later once you acknowledge this.
Thanks.
What exactly is bumping?
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Commenting on an old post with no more interest just to bring it all the way back to the top of the forums. Yours was clearly unintentional, and sometimes there is a good reason to bump it unintentionally, but since this post it quite old I don't think there was much need.
Of course if I read his post correctly it's not really bumping in the most negative sense of the word. He is not trying to get attention to a post of interest to himself.
He seems to be pointing out that a former problem, a false positive detected in an app offered by a member of this group has happened again. Formally by a AVG and Symantec, and currently by McAfee. This would of course be of interest to SmithTech. I'm don't currently have a copy of the app in question in order to upload it to our recommended testing sites to see how other products are reacting.
Tim
Things have got to get better, they can't get worse, or can they?
We'll need to strike a balance between encouraging people to search, and complaining when they inadvertently "bump" an old topic when they find something.
MC
MC,
That's a very good point!
If someone searches first, as we encourage them to do, and finds what they they are looking for, which we hope, what do they do when it's over a month old? Reply? New Topic?
Very good point indeed.
Tim
Things have got to get better, they can't get worse, or can they?
Good point. I know it was unintentional, and he was providing everyone with some good reassurance, but it's not like one of those things where we told him to search and then he 'bumped' to ask a question or provide feedback which is certainly fine, he probably just wound up on this old thread somehow and just wanted to let us know.
It's probably good that he provided reassurance, and I don't mind either way, I was just letting him know to be careful what he comments on next time and whether it's worthy of being bumped up. In this case yes it can be helpful to a new user that comes along and is still curious about the case of this situation although it did receive decent feedback/
An excellent point indeed. Maybe John can add it to his Tempering Responses guidelines so the mods follow it.
BTW I think the Tempering Responses thread should be stickied.
Ed
Thanks for the update, I have reported the false positive to McAfee.
It is usually better though to use the contact link on the website for any utilites/applications you may download to report these things as the author may over look posts in forums
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