Avast just flagged my install.exe file from by starcraft brood war CD. This is an authentic CD so i dont think it is a virus. Did anyone else get this problem?
My nephew also has this problem. I sent the file to avast from the link on the warning message. Perhaps you should also do the same since I am not sure avast got it.
You could also check the offending/suspect file at: VirusTotal - Multi engine on-line virus scanner and report the findings here the URL in the Address bar of the VT results page. You can’t do this with the file securely in the chest, you need to extract it to a temporary (not original) location first, see below.
Create a folder called Suspect in the C:\ drive, e.g. C:\Suspect. Now exclude that folder in the Standard Shield, Customize, Advanced, Add, type (or copy and paste) C:\Suspect* That will stop the standard shield scanning any file you put in that folder. You should now be able to export any file in the chest to this folder and upload it to VirusTotal without avast alerting.
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.
I’ve gotten this same problem as well. Except Avast has flagged the file “broodwar.mpq” as a virus (trojan) in my Starcraft directory. I play without the CD, so had to copy that file from the Starcraft CD over to my harddrive.
Can anyone else confirm that they’ve had this file show up as infected as well?
Pretty sure its a FP as I scanned my computer a couple weeks ago and everything was fine, and haven’t installed anything since then.
The easiest way to confirm is to do as suggested above and report.
Hello,
I am a “noob” to this site but I can offer a bit of info while Asking a questoin. What is happening is the “Gamegaurd,” This is to protect you from all online hackers and things such as that. It is neccesary however it uses a form that represents that of a Trojan(backdoor) virus if I am not mistaking. I have noticed that if ‘avast!’ cannot identify the worm it automaticly connects it to a trojan.
Anyway this is also the reason why if you move it to a hardware platform it will not activate the ‘avast!’ software because it is not an external source. If the gamegaurd tries to download a new version, this may once again alert avast.(These are all things I have picked up from first hand or noticing it on either forums or things as such)
My question is, Is there a way to include a application in a list so that ‘avast!’ will bypass it when ever it does anything like I discribed>?
Thank you Jeffery
Yes and the clue is in my first reply about excluding a folder so as to be able to upload the file to confirm the detection one way or another. The difference being that you exclude the file in its original location. You would also exclude it from on-demand scans, Program Settings, Exclusions.
However, all that really isn’t the way to go about it as that doesn’t change the fact that it is detected and everyone would have to exclude the file. Hense the confirmation and reporting to avast if confirmed as a false positive so that the virus signatures can be corrected, helping all avast users.
The file in question is a “read only” file on the cd.
Anyway, it appears to have been corrected in one of the updates since this was first posted. I checked the file again tonight by placing the Starcraft: brood war cd in my nephew’s computer and no alarm from avast.
This seems to be a case of DRM like Scurom and other DRM programs they have malware like functions so therefor they may be detected like one. The best appoarch would be to move to chest and then send it to the link up top in polonus’s post
Just scanned the file “broodwar.mpq” tonite after the latest updates and can also confirm everything is fine now and the fp has been corrected.