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abc99

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Avast reporting virus in 0.25 (likely false positive)
« on: December 03, 2009, 05:40:14 AM »
FYI

Avast Antivirus Free today started saying altbinz.exe version 0.25 (on my pc and all the ones linked on this site) was infected with a virus. All AV definitions are current.  I believe this is a false-positive.

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12/2/2009 11:25:53 PM   SYSTEM   1176   Sign of "Win32:Delf-MZG [Trj]" has been found in "C:\Program Files\AltBinz\altbinz.exe\[UPX]" file. 
12/2/2009 11:28:22 PM   SYSTEM   1176   Sign of "Win32:Delf-MZG [Trj]" has been found in "http://altbinz.kho.cc/altbinz0.25.zip\altbinz.exe\[UPX]" file. 
12/2/2009 11:28:41 PM   SYSTEM   1176   Sign of "Win32:Delf-MZG [Trj]" has been found in "http://www.celebritypwn.com/altbinz/altbinz0.25.zip\altbinz.exe\[UPX]" file. 
12/2/2009 11:33:17 PM   SYSTEM   1176   Sign of "Win32:Delf-MZG [Trj]" has been found in "http://www.celebritypwn.com/altbinz/altbinz0.25.zip\altbinz.exe\[UPX]" file.

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Re: Avast reporting virus in 0.25 (likely false positive)
« Reply #1 on: December 03, 2009, 04:52:01 PM »
It's a false positive.  Avast claims to have fixed the problem with the last VPS update but it looks like AltBinz is still effected by it.

http://support.avast.com/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=377

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Re: Avast reporting virus in 0.25 (likely false positive)
« Reply #2 on: December 10, 2009, 07:54:38 AM »
They've finally gotten the whole fiasco fixed as of virus update 091209-1.