Re: Prob - AVG False Positive? - AdAware aawsepersonal.exe (V1.06) Detected as Trojan BackDoor DownLoader AQS?
- From: "aa" <usenet.aa@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 07:27:32 GMT
In news:qSzcf.4632$Lw5.3698@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
pmj wrote:
> See Subject...
>
> 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?
Seems Sandra's not alone, there's a thread in 'alt.privacy.spyware' covering
the problem. Look for 'Strange virus ?' posted by 'Keith [Southend]' on
09/11/2005 at 19:44.
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