Avast False Positives Article
- From: "Bobbi Lubinsky" <Bobbi.Lubinsky@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:51:43 -0600
Avast update falsely flags good apps as malware
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10408645-83.html
Bobbi Lubinsky
Vision Department
Shiloh Center
214-356-8334
>>> "Bobbi Lubinsky" <Bobbi.Lubinsky@xxxxxxxx> 12/3/2009 9:33 AM >>>
FYI - I don't use JAWS at home, and I had the Trojan warning from
Avast
too.
Bobbi Lubinsky
Vision Department
Shiloh Center
214-356-8334
>>> "Fred Adams" <hamshack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 12/3/2009 2:12 AM >>>
I read the following on freerepublic.com about an hour ago. Avast
False
Positives
Posted on Thursday, December 03, 2009 1:43:24 AM by
BulletBobCo
I have Avast free anti virus on a computer and have seen what appears
to be
some false positive trojan horse hits. Has any other Avast users seen
this?
----- Original Message -----
From: "J Gurd" <j.gurd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "jfw World List" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 2:32 AM
Subject: Avast detected Trojan in Jaws
>I just went to open Outlook and Avast has come with an alert.
Supposedly a
> Trojan called Win32:Delf-MZG [Trj] was found at C:\Program
Files\Freedom
> Scientific\Shared\OOMHelper\1.0\OOMHelper.dll. This is clearly a JFW
file
> and I wondered if Avast was making an error due to inaccurate
> classification. Has anyone else had this alert?
>
>
>
> John
>
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