Avast Reports Google Update Chrome_Installer.exe Win32:Malware-gen

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Avast is blocking the current installation of Google Chrome, and Google’s Update Service. Google, Inc. is supposed to be a trusted software provider; however, is the company’s programmers adding malicious code to steal user data? I believe that Avast is right, Google is engaging in data mining. It may not be a false positive. What will Google do with the data it wants to steal? Google needs to remove its malicious code from Chrome.

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i have just updated google chrome to the latest v18.0.1025.151m, no virus alerts from file system shield

virus database: 120405-1

did u change any default settings of the file system shield?

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Same here…in order to update, I eventually had to disable avast! completely, and then reactivate once Chrome was successfully updated. This occurred on both my wife’s XP and my Win 7 computers. We’ve had avast! on both for 2+ years, and no options in avast! were recently changed. This happened during the last Chrome update as well. Repeated warnings of setup.exe as well as google-installer.exe (I think it was called that).

Cheers!

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One other oddity…I uploaded the various files detected as malware to avast! to be evaluated as likely false positives. However, once the files were in the chest, I would rescan them. At least half the time, avast! would say that there was no malware. Not sure what that means, but for what it’s worth…

Cheers!

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I had an old xp disc so bought and old computer from a shop and to learn cleared the hard drive and installed xp. After installing everthing just for fun ran the Avast Rescue Disc and it also found what you are reporting. I did not let it do anything and checked the file at virus total and it found no hits, including Avast that is on their list. So figured it was a false positive and due to no time just went on. That was yesterday and saw this thread today and so wanted to report it. The file was located at C:>Documents and Settings>( My Name )>Local Settings>Application Data>Google>Chrome>Application>18.0.1025.142>Installer>Setup.exe. I should also say I did not put Avast antivirus program on the computer since I will not be keeping it but used something else, the free Microsoft Security Essentials. So this would be why it was not detected when I installed Chrome. Hope this helps.