Panda Active Scan Virus?

nightwin · Sep 27, 2006

I went to Panda Active Scan and while it was downloading the program, my virus program popped up that it contained a virus.

W95/Bumblebee.1730

At the same time an error occurred in the download.

An error has occurred downloading Panda ActiveScan. Please repeat the process. If the error occurs again, restart your system and try again
Possible causes of this error are:

Not allowing the application's ActiveX control to be downloaded.

Problems with the Internet connection.

The error could be due to a download error or an installation error due to lack of hard disk space, privileges etc.,...

I went to the Virus information page to locate the virus definition and here is the response.

No threats were found matching your criteria!

I have AntiVir Gaurd.

Help

TimW · Sep 27, 2006

http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=PE_BUMBLE.1736++++++++++++++++++

matt.chugg · Sep 27, 2006

Its not a virus.

Q: Viruses have been detected in some of the 'Panda Antivirus' files on my computer (Win95:Matyas and Win32:Kuang2 in PAV.SIG mainly). Why is this?

A: This is a known problem. Let´s try to explain what´s going on:

Every virus can be identified, because it contains some unique signatures. Antiviral programs have their own database of that signatures. We call this database the "virus definition file".
When an antiviral program scans a file for viruses, it compares all the signatures (of all viruses) in the database with the signatures in that file. If the signatures match (they are the same), the file is marked as infected. For an antivirus program, it is important to hide this database of signatures somehow - e.g. by encrypting it. Panda Antivirus does not encrypt its virus database - the signatures inside are clearly "visible" to other antiviral programs, so they detect this file as infected (but there is actually no virus inside - only the signatures are the same).

We can´t do anything about that, only recommend not to use two or more antiviral programs at the same time, or put those files to the list of exclusions, so they will not be scanned anymore.

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Additional info:

Here is the list of Panda Antivirus files that avast! detects as infected:

IMSCAN.DLL
PAVDLL.DLL
PAV.SIG
APVXD.VX2
APVXD.VXD

Here is the list of viruses that are detected in the mentioned Panda Antivirus files. Keep in mind that the list is not complete and may change in the future:

Gift-724
VBS:Redlof
Win32:Aliser
Win32:Bolzano-3011
Win32:Bolzano-3223
Win32:Bolzano-3384
Win32:Crypto
Win32:CTX
Win32:Kenston
Win32:Kuang2
Win32:Nimda [Drp]
Win32:Qozah-C
Win32:Small-1700
Win32:Vypne [Trj]
Win95:Boza
Win95:Bumblebee
Win95:CIH 1.x
Win95:CIH-1106
Win95:CIH-1142
Win95:Fabi-B
Win95:Filezz-B
Win95:Hazlo
Win95:Heathen
Win95:Kenston
Win95:Leviathan-3236
Win95:Leviathan-3240
Win95:Leviathan-B
Win95:Matyas
Win95:One-SGWW
Win95:Orochi
Win95owerFul
Win95:Sledge-689
Win95:Werther
Click to expand...

TimW · Sep 27, 2006

Good to know, Matt!!

matt.chugg · Sep 27, 2006

I actually posted the exact same thing a few days ago

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