False Positive? Win32:Adware-gen [Adw] - PrivBar.dll

Viruses and worms
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I’ve had PrivBar installed as an addon in IE7 for a while now, but this morning Avast highlighted it as Adware.

I got it via here I think:

http://blogs.msdn.com/aaron_margosis/archive/2004/07/24/195350.aspx

Apparently other virus scanners such as F-Secure and AVG also originally picked it up as adware.

Could someone check to see if it’s clean or whether it really is adware?

thanks

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To know if it’s a false positive, Upload the file to VirusTotal and post the results.

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I have the same problem. used it for some time without any problems on Win XP Pro SP2.
This false positive only stared with database Ver 080729-1.
I have uploaded privbar.dll to Total Virus and got the results here:

http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/da06f30cc85411eef0a38354d77631b8

Only Avast and Gdata have reported this as a Win32:Adware-gen.

Hope Avast can remove this as false positive.

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itgotme do the virus total thing

then both of you
If it is indeed a false positive, see http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=34950.msg293451#msg293451, how to report it to avast! and what to do to exclude them until the problem is corrected.

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Thank you Avast!
Followed the procedure above.
This is now fixed. The virus database that does not show privbar.dll as a false positive is V080731-0.

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the system works