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False positive in Avast! or is it real?

judging purely by the name then it is FP. report it to Avast

Cudni

reply to onDvine
Avast just updated itself and within two minutes began reporting many instances of Win32:Delf-MZG. If I hadn't stopped the scan it would have moved numerous files to the chest. Something is very wrong here!

reply to onDvine
I agree. Something is not right. it is detecting a lot of false trojans (including Dell program and SpyBot).

reply to onDvine
Avast is also giving a false alarm on "Online Armor" files.
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Kaspersky + Online Armor + Router/SPI

reply to onDvine
I can't even get through the memory scan without Avast flagging three entries I know are PF.

Never had this problem before.

I've posted an inquiry on Avast Forum. What a royal pita!! My wifes computer has been hit with numerous warnings as well.

reply to onDvine
Glad I found this.

Avast has just started doing the same on mine, thought spybot had been infected so deleted it.

reply to onDvine
Just had Avast claim that Speedfan and AnyDVD had exact same Malware.

Anyone else getting this....

Last time this happened it took awhile before Avast owned up.

reply to onDvine
Well...I see I'm not alone in this.

reply to onDvine
Yes, I've just had reports of the same Trojan from the same Avast update infecting Yaldex Javascript, PC Tools Spyware Doctor and a couple of System Restore files. Since I have very good Kerio firewall protection I'm sceptical too.

reply to onDvine
My friend was using FL Studio and Avast randomly reported a ton of viruses,
and as he was scanning his comp it Identified the infection as Win32:Delf-MZG.
How should he deal with this?

reply to AARGH
Yes, same thing happening here
just updated Virus definitions and its telling me I have a bunch of infections, I already trashed 1 app by moving a file to chest, went to chest and restored it, but its a no go!!

reply to onDvine
Avast started reporting thigns such as SkypePM, adawareinstall.exe, and multiple others as this trojan. I did delete a few, and when rebooting to run a boot-scan I found this post, and stopped the scan immediately. Luckily, nothing important was deleted.

reply to onDvine
I got the same situation, virus definitions file version 091203-0 reports the same malware on different files.

Previous version 091202-1 on a different computer does not report any problem with the same file.

reply to onDvine
Same here Gman, luckly I went to my itouch and search this names on safari when It was reboting for scaning. only few little programs were affected.

reply to onDvine
Same Avast! alerts appearing on my stand alone (w/ T1), and referencing all Macrium Reflect and Timeslips software apps. Popped up while doing nothing. Recommends "move to chest," but now will not allow me to do so, claiming subject file is "being used by an other process." Super.

reply to onDvine
I have Avast 5 beta 2 on a Vista virtual machine that had not been running for four days. I just booted it and Avast did a MAJOR upgrade...not just definitions but major upgrade and then announced it had to reboot the computer. I allowed that and BAM! I noticed HostsMan was not in the systray. So, I tried to start it only to get the alert about it being a trojan.

What particularly irritated me was that I was NOT offered the choice of "No Action"! Nor was I offered the choice of renaming. I could delete or move to chest. Plus, I could not take a screen capture which I could before this major upgrade of the beta. Gadwin Print screen started with a blank box! And the the Avast alert screen disappeared when I tried to draw a rectangle around it to make a screen shot. Then Gadwin Print Screen froze. Then Avast said Gadwin Print Screen was the same trojan that everyone is seeing.

Then Avast announced that Explorer.exe was a trojan! GEEZ!!! I had to completely shut down Avast.

I can't believe this happened right after I had been praising Avast's improvement in the False Positive ratings at AV-Comparatives. This is a major mess for Avast.
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When governments fear people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. Thomas Jefferson

reply to Gman
Mine flagged three processes from Faronics and Spybot both of which I know are clean..

Virustotal says they are clean too.

reply to onDvine
Same issue, only I am using G-Data (that uses an AVAST engine), it is flagging Iobit Advanced System Care files.