Prob - AVG False Positive? - AdAware aawsepersonal.exe (V1.06) Detected as Trojan BackDoor DownLoader AQS?
- From: "pmj" <post@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 04:18:30 GMT
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Basically I came across an interesting (& annoying) little prob this
(last) evening, during a Session in the BikeSheds with Sandra (Rabbit)
She found that her AVG 7 (Free) AntiVirus thing that she uses is now
Detecting the Current Install File for AdAware SE Personal V1.06
(aawsepersonal.exe) as being Infected with a Trojan, which it Identifies
as being Trojan BackDoor DownLoader AQS
She has had (& used) the AdAware Se Personal 1.06 Install File
perfectly OK, but within the last few Days, she has found that her
AVG is picking it up as being a Trojan!!!
It comes up with all sorts of scary Warnings & Dialog Boxes, with as
many as 5 Options (as well as the Red X Close thing) & tries to
put it in "Quarantine" & Deny access to it.
It does that using its "Resident Protection" Scanner thing, when you
just Open a Folder containing it...
& also when the Download File is found on a Disk or USB Memory thing
& when the File is being Downloaded from at least 2 reputable DownLoad
Sites.
& also when you do a Manual Scan of the File, using the RightClick
Context Menu Extension to initiate an "On Demand" Scan (after we had
finally managed to Download another Version of it, without having the
DownLoad being intercepted by the "Resident Protection" thing, by
turning the "Resident Protection thing off, temporarily).
We had to jump through Hoops to get it to ignore it, so we could have
a proper look at it.
It seems fairly certain to me that it's actually just a "False Positive"
P'raps cos of the "Heuristics" that AVG uses, to try to check things?
But it still Identifies the File as being infected with a Trojan,
even when the Heuristics Option is turned off.
We did some Web Searching & couldn't find any references to it
(the AdAware SE Personal 1.06 Install File) being wrongly identified
by AVG 7, but we assume that it's just cos of one of the latest Virus
Definition Updates that her AVG has?
I'm wondering if anybody else who uses AVG 7 & also has the
aawsepersonal.exe (1.06) Install File has come across this prob?
I assume that AVG is just wrongly Identifying it - or maybe it thinks
it's a DownLoader type Trojan, cos of the AdAware AutoUpdate facility
that it uses?
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pmj
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