May the tray monitor make a wrong virus report ?

Viruses and worms
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My ‘taskmgr.exe’ was not affected by ‘Win32:Pepatch-AI [Trj]’ before I update my iAVS to Ver.0636-2 !

I had check my ‘taskmgr.exe’ in my windows dir , the file size and build date hasn’t changed yet.

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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.

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Jotti

AntiVir Found nothing
ArcaVir Found nothing
Avast Found Win32:Pepatch-AI
AVG Antivirus Found nothing
BitDefender Found nothing
ClamAV Found nothing
Dr.Web Found nothing
F-Prot Antivirus Found nothing
Fortinet Found nothing
Kaspersky Anti-Virus Found nothing
NOD32 Found nothing
Norman Virus Control Found nothing
UNA Found nothing
VirusBuster Found nothing
VBA32 Found nothing

Virustotal

Antivirus Version Update Result
AntiVir 7.1.1.14 09.07.2006 no virus found
Authentium 4.93.8 09.08.2006 no virus found
Avast 4.7.844.0 09.07.2006 Win32:Pepatch-AI
AVG 386 09.07.2006 no virus found
BitDefender 7.2 09.08.2006 no virus found
CAT-QuickHeal 8.00 09.07.2006 no virus found
ClamAV devel-20060426 09.08.2006 no virus found
DrWeb 4.33 09.07.2006 no virus found
eTrust-InoculateIT 23.72.119 09.08.2006 no virus found
eTrust-Vet 30.3.3066 09.07.2006 no virus found
Ewido 4.0 09.05.2006 no virus found
Fortinet 2.77.0.0 09.07.2006 no virus found
F-Prot 3.16f 09.08.2006 no virus found
F-Prot4 4.2.1.29 09.07.2006 no virus found
Ikarus 0.2.65.0 09.07.2006 no virus found
Kaspersky 4.0.2.24 09.08.2006 no virus found
McAfee 4847 09.07.2006 no virus found
Microsoft 1.1560 09.08.2006 no virus found
NOD32v2 1.1744 09.08.2006 no virus found
Norman 5.90.23 09.07.2006 no virus found
Panda 9.0.0.4 09.07.2006 no virus found
Sophos 4.09.0 09.07.2006 no virus found
Symantec 8.0 09.08.2006 no virus found
TheHacker 5.9.8.207 09.07.2006 no virus found
UNA 1.83 09.07.2006 no virus found
VBA32 3.11.1 09.07.2006 no virus found
VirusBuster 4.3.7:9 09.07.2006 no virus found

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Most probably, as you can see, a false positive :-[