mIRC virus after Avast updated

Viruses and worms
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After today’s update Date: 1-13-2008 mIRC is being detected as a virus/worm Win32:Trojan-Gen {other}

2

What the heck! It did that to me too just now when I tried to get on IRC. I was on IRC yesterday with no problems. Then I go to load it up today and…

Virus has been detected!
File Name: mirc.exe
FileID: 5
Virus Description: Win32:Trojan-gen {Other}

I moved IRC to the chest for now, but what in the world!

3

im sure within the next 48 hours there will be an update to fix it…

4

Haha, I’m hoping! Or more specifically, I’m hoping it is, in fact, a false positive, and that there isn’t actually some virus on the loose that infects people’s mIRC files.

5

It’s a false positive: http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=32659.msg273125#msg273125

6

Fast update Problem is solved. Thanks for the fast update to fix it.