Please help with a possible FP ( Win32:Trojan-gen {Other} )

Hello,

I was hoping someone could help me with a problem that occured today.

I have a video converter program ( Ultra Video to Flash ) that I’ve been using for quite some time. Today I ran it and immediately got a virus warning from Avast telling me it was infected ( with a Win32:Trojan-gen {Other} ). I was shocked!

So, i moved it to the virus chest as instructed. Looking at the file in the chest… it said the file was last changed on 9/27/2006. Now I have used this program ~countless~ times between today and Sept. 27, 2006. So how can it be infected all of a sudden? This has to be a false positive, correct?

How can a program that I use almost every day get infected? I didn’t run or install any new programs. And after a thorough scan with Avast… all my other files are perfectly clean.

This program is very important in the work I do. I’m sure it’s not infected… but Avast won’t let me run it. What can I do?


Just out of curiosity, I extracted the file from the chest… zipped it up and uploaded to Jotti.Org… these are the results I received.

A-Squared Found nothing
AntiVir Found nothing
ArcaVir Found nothing
Avast Found Win32:Trojan-gen {Other}
AVG Antivirus Found nothing
BitDefender Found nothing
ClamAV Found nothing
CPsecure Found nothing
Dr.Web Found nothing
F-Prot Antivirus Found nothing
F-Secure Anti-Virus Found nothing
G DATA Found Win32:Trojan-gen
Ikarus Found nothing
Kaspersky Anti-Virus Found nothing
NOD32 Found nothing
Norman Virus Control Found W32/Bifrose.AFSP
Panda Antivirus Found nothing
Sophos Antivirus Found nothing
VirusBuster Found nothing
VBA32 Found nothing

Hi SteveO29,

Please follow the procedures here for dealing with a suspected false positive:

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=7779.0