Problem with YPops!

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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I am using YPops! (former yahoopops) to access mailboxes on yahoo using POP3 protocol. For months I had no problem with it. Today I turned up my computer and there it is, a problem - ypops can’t start because Avast found trojan.gen in libcurl.dll. Also Avast updated today, but problem remained. Virustotal found 4 out of 11

Avast Build: Jul2008 (4.8.1229)
VPS: 25.07.2008 080725-0
YPOPs! Version 0.9.5.1

http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/0c3e19c1d363ae134a24e6cb9cb2191f

Jotti says this:

Scan taken on 25 Jul 2008 05:35:21 (GMT)
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 Troj.W32.Agent.voq
Dr.Web
Found nothing
F-Prot Antivirus
Found nothing
F-Secure Anti-Virus
Found nothing
Fortinet
Found nothing
Ikarus
Found Trojan.Win32.Agent.voq
Kaspersky Anti-Virus
Found nothing
NOD32
Found nothing
Norman Virus Control
Found nothing
Panda Antivirus
Found nothing
Sophos Antivirus
Found nothing
VirusBuster
Found nothing
VBA32
Found nothing

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Hi…

I would recommend sending a copy of the file in a password protected archive (zip file) to virus[at]avast[dot]com (don’t forget to include the password in the message body.)

Alwil will be able to test it and if it is a false positive, they will include a correction in the next update. :slight_smile:

Best Regards…

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As a workaround, you can add these files to the Standard Shield provider (on-access scanning) exclusion list.
Left click the ‘a’ blue icon, click on the provider icon at left and then Customize. Go to Advanced tab and click on Add button…
You can use wildcards like * and ?. But be careful, you should ‘exclude’ that many files that let your system in danger.