

onDvine

Grown up Flower Child

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join:2005-01-29

So. CA, USA 3 recommendations onDvine Premium Member False positive in Avast! or is it real?



Also found 3 entries in Avast's Warning Log that seem related but none of the applications are likely to be involved with a Trojan. Found the notice (above, top) that a Trojan had been detected and I chose "Move to chest." The computer was on w/ only the screen saver running and browser windows closed.Also found 3 entries in Avast's Warning Log that seem related but none of the applications are likely to be involved with a Trojan.



Cudni

La Merma - Vigilado

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join:2003-12-20

Someshire 1 recommendation Cudni MVM judging purely by the name then it is FP. report it to Avast



Cudni



Pentangle

With our thoughts we make the world.

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Avast just updated itself and within two minutes began reporting many instances of Win32:Delf-MZG. If I hadn't stopped the scan it would have moved numerous files to the chest. Something is very wrong here!

rhdcheme

join:2006-11-18

Lorton, VA rhdcheme to onDvine

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I agree. Something is not right. it is detecting a lot of false trojans (including Dell program and SpyBot).



Grimm43

You Never Hear The One That Kills You

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I can't even get through the memory scan without Avast flagging three entries I know are PF.



Never had this problem before.



Pentangle

With our thoughts we make the world.

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Vancouver BC 1 recommendation Pentangle Premium Member I've posted an inquiry on Avast Forum. What a royal pita!! My wifes computer has been hit with numerous warnings as well.



Avast User

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Glad I found this.



Avast has just started doing the same on mine, thought spybot had been infected so deleted it.

AARGH

join:2003-03-26

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Just had Avast claim that Speedfan and AnyDVD had exact same Malware.



Anyone else getting this....



Last time this happened it took awhile before Avast owned up.



onDvine

Grown up Flower Child

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So. CA, USA onDvine Premium Member Well...I see I'm not alone in this.



Mirihika

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Yes, I've just had reports of the same Trojan from the same Avast update infecting Yaldex Javascript, PC Tools Spyware Doctor and a couple of System Restore files. Since I have very good Kerio firewall protection I'm sceptical too.



Helpnafriend

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My friend was using FL Studio and Avast randomly reported a ton of viruses,

and as he was scanning his comp it Identified the infection as Win32:Delf-MZG.

How should he deal with this?

maxwedge2

join:2001-10-18

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Yes, same thing happening here

just updated Virus definitions and its telling me I have a bunch of infections, I already trashed 1 app by moving a file to chest, went to chest and restored it, but its a no go!!

Gman94

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Avast started reporting thigns such as SkypePM, adawareinstall.exe, and multiple others as this trojan. I did delete a few, and when rebooting to run a boot-scan I found this post, and stopped the scan immediately. Luckily, nothing important was deleted.



Cid

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I got the same situation, virus definitions file version 091203-0 reports the same malware on different files.



Previous version 091202-1 on a different computer does not report any problem with the same file.



Peu

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Same here Gman, luckly I went to my itouch and search this names on safari when It was reboting for scaning. only few little programs were affected.



DylanBoy

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Same Avast! alerts appearing on my stand alone (w/ T1), and referencing all Macrium Reflect and Timeslips software apps. Popped up while doing nothing. Recommends "move to chest," but now will not allow me to do so, claiming subject file is "being used by an other process." Super.

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What particularly irritated me was that I was NOT offered the choice of "No Action"! Nor was I offered the choice of renaming. I could delete or move to chest. Plus, I could not take a screen capture which I could before this major upgrade of the beta. Gadwin Print screen started with a blank box! And the the Avast alert screen disappeared when I tried to draw a rectangle around it to make a screen shot. Then Gadwin Print Screen froze. Then Avast said Gadwin Print Screen was the same trojan that everyone is seeing.



Then Avast announced that Explorer.exe was a trojan! GEEZ!!! I had to completely shut down Avast.



I can't believe this happened right after I had been praising Avast's improvement in the False Positive ratings at AV-Comparatives. This is a major mess for Avast. I have Avast 5 beta 2 on a Vista virtual machine that had not been running for four days. I just booted it and Avast did a MAJOR upgrade...not just definitions but major upgrade and then announced it had to reboot the computer. I allowed that and BAM! I noticed HostsMan was not in the systray. So, I tried to start it only to get the alert about it being a trojan.What particularly irritated me was that I was NOT offered the choice of "No Action"! Nor was I offered the choice of renaming. I could delete or move to chest. Plus, I could not take a screen capture which I could before this major upgrade of the beta. Gadwin Print screen started with a blank box! And the the Avast alert screen disappeared when I tried to draw a rectangle around it to make a screen shot. Then Gadwin Print Screen froze. Then Avast said Gadwin Print Screen was the same trojan that everyone is seeing.Then Avast announced thatwas a trojan! GEEZ!!! I had to completely shut down Avast.I can't believe this happened right after I had been praising Avast's improvement in the False Positive ratings at AV-Comparatives. This is afor Avast.



Grimm43

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Mine flagged three processes from Faronics and Spybot both of which I know are clean..



Virustotal says they are clean too.







Algernon

@comcast.net Algernon to onDvine

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Same issue, only I am using G-Data (that uses an AVAST engine), it is flagging Iobit Advanced System Care files.



eggbored

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Yep getting it with kmplayer. Now I can't use it. This is the sort of thing that makes me switch to other programs. Not good.



arggem

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Ditto: with Skype, Spybot, and Copernic DTS.



ff1324

Everybody Goes Home

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Yeah...it doesn't like DVDFab either. It flagged the vso_hwe.dll file as being the same trojan indicated above.



buttoni

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Gee, I uninstalled Avast to try out Microsoft Security Essentials a few weeks ago. The gods are smiling on me maybe? I just tried to access their support forums and NO GO! Guess they're forum server is swamped with users trying to get in to report the problem.



luckyj

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I'm having the same issues - keeps reporting Trojans in memory files and system files mostly related to spyware detection/removal.



So far I've had alerts for Spybot, Webroot Spysweeper and Tun Up Utilities. All of these programs have been fine in the past and have never alerted.



What the heck happened???



CoolC

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Im using avast pro and it just updated then said that Skype had a trojan WIN32delfMZG



z75

@rr.com z75 to onDvine

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OMG, everything has this virus?

It is happening to me too all of a sudden. I know none of these are viruses because i have been using it for such a long time. FP.



Annoyed

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Anyone have a fix? I was able to choose no action in my case, but it still won't allow me to open my Guitar Pro files...



Johnnyhel

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As above, found a file in Spybot. Ive moved the file to the chest, however will shutdown avast for the time being so other programs dont get crippled.