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Answer» It happened to me yesterday.... http://www.dslreport...Gone-Mad-105773 Antivirus program suddenly sees false positives everywhere... While it veers astray from our normal SUBJECT matter of broadband-related news, users in our security forum are indicating that Avast antivirus appears to have gone seriously off of the rails. According to users, the application has suddenly decided to flag many safe applications, freshly-downloaded files and dlls as malicious, wreaking havoc on user systems. It appears that the program is flagging a number of files used by entirely normal programs such as Skype, Spybot Search and Destroy and other programs incorrectly as the Win32:Delf-MZG trojan. Avast's official forums are currently being crushed by the sudden onslaught of traffic created by confused users, many of whom are being told that generic program files are a security threat. Impacted users should uninstall the program or disable the file shield functionality of the application until a fix is issued, lest they delete necessary files on the advice of an anti-virus program gone mad. Avast, which just celebrated the addition of its 100,000,000th user, is in for a very busy night. Needless to say, your copy of Microsoft Paint is not a virus, regardless of what Avast is currently telling you. Update Avast has posted a statement to their forum saying they've fixed the problem. A little off topic, but what's "C:\Program Files (x86)\..."? Is it something like 64...oh wait, I don't know what that is either. x86 are 32-bit files/programs on 64-bit system.I have YET to find any relative issues with avast on either an XP or Vista system yet. This may not be WIDESPREAD and may be indicative of other issues.No other issues. If you just Google it, the problem was widespread. It was fixed same day with next Avast update. I was affected myself, as Avast flagged one of my legit and healthy folders.Ah, there we have it then, obviosly my 12 HOUR days are interfering with my computer use. Because of botched update timing, the most affected AREAS were Pacific and Asia time zones.Quote from: Broni on December 05, 2009, 04:33:15 PM Because of botched update timing, the most affected areas were Pacific and Asia time zones. That makes sense then, I wouldn't have been on my system during that time frame at all.One of our members got that virus. Too late, all .exe files deleted. Topic: trojan detected Win32:Delf-MZG in AVAST proJust to clarify here all his .exe's were NOT deleted by Avast....they are gone because he didn't follow instructions from the Virus and Spyware section of the Forum...What really makes me mad is people on the chat are "helping" people who have this "virus" and saying the scan is right and these files are infected, AND THEN not listening when people shove proof in their faces that they're wrong. Quote from: Helpmeh on December 03, 2009, 08:06:29 PM A little off topic, but what's "C:\Program Files (x86)\..."? Is it something like 64...oh wait, I don't know what that is either.Quote from: Broni on December 03, 2009, 08:09:43 PM x86 are 32-bit files/programs on 64-bit system. More info here Quote from: Helpmeh on December 07, 2009, 01:23:10 PM What really makes me mad is people on the chat are "helping" people who have this "virus" and saying the scan is right and these files are infected, AND THEN not listening when people shove proof in their faces that they're wrong. I'm not surprised at all.Quote from: BC_Programmer on December 07, 2009, 03:15:36 PM More info hereThanksQuote What really makes me mad is people on the chat are "helping" people who have this "virus" and saying the scan is right and these files are infected, AND THEN not listening when people shove proof in their faces that they're wrong. Quote It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.I never claim to know what I don't know. (is that a sentence?) If there is any doubt what-so-ever, I send them to see EF. I've probably sent some his way that don't need him, but better safe than sorry, right? |
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