Downloader Agent2ARZ

Discussion in 'Malware Help - MG (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by cvasara, Apr 7, 2009.

  1. cvasara

    cvasara Private E-2

    Newbie here, but have been following this site for a week or so, since I have found it.
    I am using AVG Professional 8.5.285. on my Dell and AVG Professional 7.5.557 on my Toshiba. Yesterday, from this site on these two laptops, I added and scanned these two computers with ccleaner, and the defrag tool, that were recommended here. I powered up my two laptops this morning, the Dell, upon power up, showed a Resident Shield alert that a Treat was detected, called Trojan Horse Downloader Agent2ARZ. I Googelled that term, and nothing came up. So I updated AVG and ran a complete scan on the Dell. That scan showed just the usual tracking cookies, and no malicious threats. My question is - Is this just a 'false positive' that is unique to AVG 8.5? The Toshiba that I am using now did not display that threat upon power up.
    Thanks for any help or suggestions, Guess I better pay more attention to this site.
     
    cvasara, Apr 7, 2009
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  2. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    Welcome to Major Geeks!

    Detected where? You need to give complete full path and file names. A name of an infection is not helpful at all unless the additional information accompanies it.

    Without the additional info, we cannot really say. If additional scans do not show anything, then whatever was being detected was either removed or an update to the definitions removed a case of a false positive.
     
    chaslang, Apr 10, 2009
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