False positive on OGG codec?

I’ve got an OGG codec called oggcodecs_0.69.8924.exe made by illiminable.com. Avast thought that it’s a virus, but I think it’s a false positive.

If you make a google search on this file, you could find it in a lot of places. It can’t be a virus, don’t you think so?

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. :wink:

I’ve sent the file to virus@avast.com before posting here. Do I need to recall the mail?

No need to recall the mail. The Alwil team will have a look at it and if it is indeed a FP, they will correct it as soon as possible. But submit the file to Jotti and see what is says.

Jotti is extremely busy right now. I can’t submit it.

VirusTotal has accepted it in its queue … in the 50th position!

Still waiting …

OTOH, AVG, Norton, McAfee and NOD32 don’t consider it as a virus.

OK, VirusTotal result indicated that Avast 4.7.844.0 considered it as Win32:Trojan-gen. {Other}, exactly what I got.

But Jotti found nothing, not even with Avast!

Sure looks like a false positive.
Thank you for reporting it.
The alwil team (as I said) will fix it as soon as possible.

Jotti uses the Linux version of avast and as such some unpackers aren’t included, which is probably it isn’t detected. So the better multi engine scanner would be virustotal, not to mention that it has 27 different scanners.

By the way, the problem goes away if you install the lastest version (.71.0946) Illiminable codec.