Recently Avast has decided that the program “ACDSee32” has a virus. Now im fairly certain it doesnt so how do i exclude make it stop scanning this file? ive reinstalled the app from disc and keeps detecting a virus in the main programs exe. but this cant be right since its been running for over 2 years on my PC fine. ive tried adding it to the exclusion list but it doest seem to work.
ACDsee32.exe
the virus it detects is:
“Win32:Trojan-gen. {VC}”
Also i scanned the file with “Kaspersky AV” and it didnt detect anything.
…SAME WITH ME, everything great, AVAST 4.7 doing a great job then straight after todays supplement BANG i supposedly have a TROJAN in ACDSEE 32 EXE
.I KNOW its an old proggy but is the smallest easy to use thumbnailer around
.it leaves such a small pawprint that i have it 3 drives but now none of them work
also i cant find any reference to the troj WIN32 TROJAN GEN (VC) anywhere
(none in virus databases i can find)
…except disgruntled AVAST users
if its a false positive as other forums seem to think how can i stop 4.7 from detecting it all the time thus making my most useful “swiss army knife” proggy KAPUT
…something that must be looked at!!!
i beleive there was a spate of this happening a couple of years ago
…i love AVAST ALWILL it has been excellent (and i’m a 24/7 power user)
…only had a pesky JAVA almost sneak through once but AVAST got it
…have sent a report in… hope you can address the prob
There has just been a large VPS update so it could well be a false positive detection, which can be confirmed using the multi-engine scanner links in the above link. If it is an FP send a sample to avast as outlined in the same link.
Any reported FPs are usually corrected very quickly this was very quick. Perhaps because it was a very large VPS update the Alwil team were on the lookout for any reports.
No problem, now you know how to confirm the detection and exclude from scan if you ever have this happen again, you shouldn’t be inconvenienced for long.
i was just bundling up a zip to send ;D
suuure was quick, kudos to all ;D ;D ;D