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luckyj to Mele20
Anon
2009-Dec-2 8:50 pm
to Mele20
Re: False positive in Avast! or is it real?I know....No option to "take no action".....However, I just "X'ed" out the window and it closed taking no action. FYI |
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Eagle to onDvine
Anon
2009-Dec-2 8:50 pm
to onDvine
Mailwasher Pro has been disabled also. |
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Helpnafriend to onDvine
Anon
2009-Dec-2 8:50 pm
to onDvine
My friend was re-downloading FL Studios, it randomly stopped the download.
Avast seems to be either screwed up, or it's a real virus meant to screw avast up... |
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HotTubber to onDvine
Anon
2009-Dec-2 8:50 pm
to onDvine
Many many false positives being reported immediately after update-restart of Avast. Hope they can give us a solution because their product is usually fantastic and I've trusted it for years. |
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Jokkkkkk to Pentangle
Anon
2009-Dec-2 8:50 pm
to Pentangle
Since upgrade/update on AVAST all my computers have virus. |
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Vin to onDvine
Anon
2009-Dec-2 8:50 pm
to onDvine
I just started getting these warnings today as well. I highly doubt that everybody got this virus at the exact same time, and it's giving them to me for regularly used programs that I know to be safe. It must be a false positive. I really hope this gets fixed soon. I can barely use the computer without Avast! thinking that everything is infected.
I may just uninstall and run Avira for now until this gets resolved. |
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NJtoo to onDvine
Anon
2009-Dec-2 8:50 pm
to onDvine
A trojan horse was found!
I hope it's a false positive. It seems like it should be.
File name: C:\Program Files\Tall Emu\Online Armor\oawatch.dll Malware name: Win32:Delf-MZG [Trj] Malware type: Trojan Horse VPS version: 091203-0, 12/03/2009
avast wouldn't let me take action on the file. |
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Wastedsanity to onDvine
Anon
2009-Dec-2 8:51 pm
to onDvine
Reported my terra copy as male ware. Now i cant move any files around cause the utilities are locked |
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AV noob to onDvine
Anon
2009-Dec-2 8:51 pm
to onDvine
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dds @virginmedia.com |
dds to onDvine
Anon
2009-Dec-2 8:51 pm
to onDvine
same here avast sort this out very annoying! Win32:Delf-MZG apparently everything on my computer has it lol! |
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r10k to onDvine
Anon
2009-Dec-2 8:51 pm
to onDvine
This just happened to me. Nasty. |
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onDvineGrown up Flower Child Premium Member join:2005-01-29 So. CA, USA |
to buttoni
said by buttoni:... I just tried to access their support forums and NO GO! Guess they're forum server is swamped with users trying to get in to report the problem. I couldn't get the page to load, either. |
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aristideau to onDvine
Anon
2009-Dec-2 8:51 pm
to onDvine
I am also getting it as well. Reporting NuSphere, SpyBot, FAR HTML (Help Creator).
Just submitted the phped.exe (NuSphere) to virustotal.com and it returned 0 positives |
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sded Premium Member join:2002-11-04 San Diego, CA 1 edit |
to onDvine
Looks like Avast! posted a bad data base update, 091203-0. Not much to do except turn off the avast! providers until they get it fixed. Affects both 4.8 and the 5.0 beta. |
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Vin to onDvine
Anon
2009-Dec-2 8:51 pm
to onDvine
I don't know if anyone else has tried this, but to make matters worse, it flags any exe file you download as having the virus. I tried downloading numerous files from Download.com only to find that none of them would complete because they were apparently all infected with the delf-mzg trojan. Not good. |
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aristideau to onDvine
Anon
2009-Dec-2 8:51 pm
to onDvine
I am also getting it as well. Reporting NuSphere, SpyBot, FAR HTML (Help Creator).
Just submitted the phped.exe (NuSphere) which is a showstopper for me as I cannot work to virustotal.com and it returned 0 positives |
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Fort HoodTx to onDvine
Anon
2009-Dec-2 8:52 pm
to onDvine
Same happened to me I accidently deleted a few programs when the alert came up, it said the same thing when i tried to download a program. Started a boot-time scan and it froze up when it found a so called trojan |
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Ainenbn to onDvine
Anon
2009-Dec-2 8:52 pm
to onDvine
It flagged grand theft auto, spybot S&D and lots of other programs!
Is there an official response to this? |
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Mele20 Premium Member join:2001-06-05 Hilo, HI 1 edit |
to onDvine
The Avast forum is intermittent. But I see no posts on this yet. I suppose this is because a page will load there slowly and then you click to start a new thread and get a 404 error. Then another couple of tries and you get a page there loaded ok but then the next click produces another 404 error.
I did see a new sticky thread on version 5 beta 3 which is what the major upgrade was about for me from ver 2 to ver 3. I can't read that thread though with the forum going intermittently dead.
I could see on the forum, before it went dead again, that the latest definitions update was a little over 2 hours ago so it is that version that is causing the FP's. I left Avast on default settings for updating. That means it updates every 240 minutes so many folks are just now getting this lethal update. |
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Big Neil to onDvine
Anon
2009-Dec-2 8:56 pm
to onDvine
Avast said that Mailwasher Pro (Firetrust) and Wimpy FLV player were both infected with Win32:Delf-MZG. Both of these programs have been installed for a LONG time on my system.
I am pretty certain that this is a false alarm. I did send message to Avast and Firetrust to check. |
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arggemDone With D.U.N. Premium Member join:2002-09-21 Lakeland, FL |
to Mele20
There is a post: » forum.avast.com/index.ph ··· =51608.0, but pages are loading pretty slow, if at all. |
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ff1324Everybody Goes Home Premium Member join:2002-08-24 On Four Day |
to onDvine
I got a couple of pages on Avast's forums to load and it looks like they're being inundated with posts about FP's on tons of software.
I just uninstalled Avast and installed MSE. Problem solved. Now....how long until my mother calls in a panic? |
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Mister X to Mele20
Anon
2009-Dec-2 9:00 pm
to Mele20
said by Mele20:The Avast forum is intermittent. But I see no posts on this yet. I suppose this is because a page will load there slowly and then you click to start a new thread and get a 404 error. Then another couple of tries and you get a page there loaded ok but then the next click produces another 404 error. I did see a new sticky thread on version 5 beta 3 which is what the major upgrade was about for me from ver 2 to ver 3. I can't read that thread though with the forum going intermittently dead. Many topics are being created about it; it's simply the official staff that haven't yet commented on it. |
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Parki to onDvine
Anon
2009-Dec-2 9:00 pm
to onDvine
Avast thought all my AutoCAD drawings were trojans. Fixed it by turning off avast. Hope they get a fix out for this asap. |
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IAM2231 to onDvine
Anon
2009-Dec-2 9:01 pm
to onDvine
Got the same thing just pop up-- legit, paid for, exe files that never flagged before just started flagging now.... just want to add my say into the pot--- hope they fix it quick.... it'll freak my wife out if the warning pops up on her :S |
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Invincibles to onDvine
Anon
2009-Dec-2 9:01 pm
to onDvine
Getting false positive on my SUPER video converter. I simply paused the [Standard Shield] to stop the scanner temporarily until this is fixed. |
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HyrumR to onDvine
Anon
2009-Dec-2 9:01 pm
to onDvine
Someone just told me that a program I have written (an editor for a programming language) was doing this. Judging by the programs people are saying have this problem, I've pretty well decided that anything written in Delphi has this problem. Hope Avast gets it fixed. |
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johnfgfgf to onDvine
Anon
2009-Dec-2 9:01 pm
to onDvine
Avast has totally trashed 3 of our laptops and destroyed most programs..... |
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Dilbert10 to onDvine
Anon
2009-Dec-2 9:01 pm
to onDvine
Both Desktop and Laptop started finding numerous trojans, win32:delf-mzg and win32:zbot-mkk. Desktop deleted 266 files and laptop 9 files prior to me find this site on my Ipod. I am extremely skeptical that I have that many viruses on 6% of my Desktop. I have no idea what has been destroyed. My Quickbooks program and my photos are the only two items that I really care about and Quickbooks seems to be fine. Freecommander is gone and Avast will not let me download a new version saying that it is infected.
I am going to try a system restore and not update Avast and see what happens. |
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lets see to onDvine
Anon
2009-Dec-2 9:02 pm
to onDvine
lol guess we all just have to wait |
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