Ok, Avast has been reprting that my ATIPTAXX.exe file is a trojan or infected with a trojan Win32:trojan-gen. {UPX!}
it has also been saying this about my nero Updater and my QTTASK ( which is a quicktime updater… )
The ATIPTAXX is an updater for my video card…
Why does Avast report these as being infected? It wont fix them, Ive reinstalled all of the programs and run some other online scanners which do not report these files as infected.
My machine runs as good as always and I run Spybot regularly.
To know if a file is a false positive, please submit it to JOTTI or VirusTotal and let us know the result. If it is indeed a false positive, send it in a password protected zip to virus@avast.com
Please, mention in the body of the message why you think it is a false positive and the password used. Thanks.
As a workaround, you can add these files to the Standard Shield provider (on-access scanning) exclusion list.
Left click the ‘a’ blue icon, click on the provider icon at left and then Customize. Go to Advanced tab and click on Add button…
You can use wildcards like * and ?. But be carefull, you should ‘exclude’ that many files that let your system in danger.
After that, please, periodically check it - scan it into Chest, right clicking the file - there should still be a copy in the chest even though you restored it to the original location. When it is no longer detected as being infected then you can also remove it from the Exclusion list.
thanks for the reply! Ill try that… currently Im running a few other scans ( Ewido for now ) and Ewido is actually reporting the same files as being infected, as Downloader.Agent.awf
However these programs are designed to download updates… so not sure if its a confusion issue or my commonly used updaters actually got infected somehow.