2 false positive...

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1

Hi,

Today I tried the avast! Pro and scan my disc.

The result was 2 false positives…
I tested this files on Kaspersky and NOD32…

Can this be confirmed?

2

I ran that file by http://virusscan.jotti.dhs.org/ and out of the 9 AV’s on that site avast! was the only one that said it found anything. Said it find VBS:Malware other AV’s on there were F-Prot, F-Secure, mks_vir, Norman and a few others and no other found any virus or spyware at all.

So either it’s a false positive or these other AV’s needs to add that virus to their lists.

UPDATE

I uploaded both of those files and avast! found Win32:Trojan-gen. in the stdio.dll file and that VBS: Malware in the index.html file.

3

VaMPiRiC_CRoW, probably as you used two on-line scanners…
Better will be if you can zip the files with a password and send it to Alwil (virus (at) avast.com) informing the password used :wink:

4

I will do that, Technical :wink:

Thanks

5

Hi all,
the files really was false positives. The repair should appear in the next virus database update.

6

Interingly enough it was not just Avast that falsed alarm on those files. I ran the file through http://www.virustotal.com/flash/index_en.html and Panda and Sybari (which uses a number of AV engines) alerted to the file. See below.

This is the report of the scanning done over “files.zip” file that VirusTotal processed on 09/10/2004 at 09:19:00.
Antivirus Version Update Result
BitDefender 7.0 09.09.2004 -
ClamWin devel-20040822 09.08.2004 -
McAfee 4390 09.08.2004 -
NOD32v2 1.867 09.09.2004 -
Norman 5.70.10 09.09.2004 -
Panda 7.02.00 09.09.2004 HackTool/Stdio.A
Sybari 7.5.1314 09.10.2004 IRC/Flood.ak.plugin
Symantec 8.0 09.09.2004 -
TrendMicro 7.000 09.08.2004 -

Cheers

Jlo