Problem with Demonews download.

Discussion in 'Malware Help (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by Sailor, Nov 15, 2006.

  1. Sailor

    Sailor First Sergeant

    It may be another site's problem but since Majorgeeks and Demonews are sister sites I thought of asking for help here.
    When I attempt to download worms_armageddon.exe from here the avast! antivirus blocks me. First it reports one "bad connection" (snapshot 1) and then two reports about a sample of win32.adware-gen(snapshots 2 and 3). Of course I abort the connection and then delete the files. Can someone try downloading the file too? If it is a false positive can I let the file in?
     
    Last edited: Nov 15, 2006
  2. Sailor

    Sailor First Sergeant

    Something was wrong with the attachments so I had to post them as images
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  3. Major Attitude

    Major Attitude Co-Owner MajorGeeks.Com Staff Member

    As stated here, we believe it to be a false positive, it can not be duplicated by other anti-virus programs and frankly Avast is the king of false positives.

    http://www.demonews.com/thread133-1.html
     

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