avg and hjt

Cheers for the heads up Hawklord, it seems AVG is having a glut of false positives of late, keep on like this and it will be one freebie I will start not to recomend.

But lets see how quick Grisoft fix this, I have forwarded your mesage to our malware fighters as no doubt they will have a few threads mentioning this malware, so thanks for this alert, please also if you get time post back if the next defs for AVG fix this malware alert?

 

The worm type false detections have happened many times with programs like this. They are sometimes triggered by the compression/packing schemes used to create the EXE files. McAfee used to detect version 1.99.1 of HijackThis to have a p2p worm in it. Since BFU is also from Merijn, it is not surprising to possibly see similar false detections.

Now back to AVG, as Halo, mentioned there have been quite a few false positives showing up in AVG over the last 3 months or so. It's a shame but it does happen with many programs. Sometimes a new feature/detection that is added to truly detect real malware can also trigger the detection of other things that are not valid.

 

Cheers for update Greenknight, good for Grisoft getting this fixed quickly, sadly in some occasions important files and software can be flagged and an unsupecting user can delete the FP and kill some software of theirs, so quick fixes from the AV companies are needed.

SO good for Grisoft.