AVG - false positives on Win32/Heur?
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AVG - false positives on Win32/Heur?
Hi folks
Recently, AVG has started popping alerts for a ton of EXEs on my system saying they're infected with Win32/Heur. I understand heuristics scanning....
Thing is, my PC seems to be bahaving normally. No obvious signs of infection. I run Ad-aware, Spybot and AVG. When these popups started, I downloaded Pareto anti-virus and scanning with that comes up clean.
I could understand the odd exe throwing a false positive but these are dozens of EXEs.
1. Anything I can do to check absolutely if I have Win32/Heur? If I can't positively say no, then it's format and rebuild and I'm a vatsim user with heavily tweaked Fligh Sim installs - major pain to recreate...
2. Any idea what might be going on if it is false positives on so many files?
Cheers pruners
Recently, AVG has started popping alerts for a ton of EXEs on my system saying they're infected with Win32/Heur. I understand heuristics scanning....
Thing is, my PC seems to be bahaving normally. No obvious signs of infection. I run Ad-aware, Spybot and AVG. When these popups started, I downloaded Pareto anti-virus and scanning with that comes up clean.
I could understand the odd exe throwing a false positive but these are dozens of EXEs.
1. Anything I can do to check absolutely if I have Win32/Heur? If I can't positively say no, then it's format and rebuild and I'm a vatsim user with heavily tweaked Fligh Sim installs - major pain to recreate...
2. Any idea what might be going on if it is false positives on so many files?
Cheers pruners
Last edited by Simonta; 25th Sep 2009 at 20:12.
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Looks like a known problem:
AVG Forums - Latest AVG Update Misidentifies A Known Good Application As A Threat
You should update your AVG and re-scan.
SD
AVG Forums - Latest AVG Update Misidentifies A Known Good Application As A Threat
You should update your AVG and re-scan.
SD
