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Doing a scan of my c drive avg thinks that adaware.exe is a trojan horse downloader and also the adawaretweakse.exe so ive allowed it to move them to the virus vault. The thing is that they arent trojans or virus' because they were downloaded from Adawares own website and i have in fact been using adaware for months and it has never picked it up before. So odd. AVG is so stupid sometimes.
Does anyone know why it does this and has it happened to you at all?
I cant understand why after all this time its now flagging it as a trojan, is it because it is a " .exe " file ? Or maybe grisoft in their infinite wisdom has decided to tell avg software to mark adaware as a virus / trojan ?
Of course no doubt now everytime i run adaware im going to be told its a virus and it will be shut down.
Uhm .. any hints / tips ?
Whats the point in having all this security if all it does is find things that arent infact virus's or trojans and seems to be unable to pick up proper virus' or trojans
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Does anyone know why it does this and has it happened to you at all?
I cant understand why after all this time its now flagging it as a trojan, is it because it is a " .exe " file ? Or maybe grisoft in their infinite wisdom has decided to tell avg software to mark adaware as a virus / trojan ?
Of course no doubt now everytime i run adaware im going to be told its a virus and it will be shut down.
Uhm .. any hints / tips ?
Whats the point in having all this security if all it does is find things that arent infact virus's or trojans and seems to be unable to pick up proper virus' or trojans
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AVG's had it's day.
Avast's the way forward.;)
bye bye AVG : (
Avast is brilliant as its free, has built in script blocker. Paid extra money so i could upgrade to server version. Fantastic never failed me yet.
NOD32 has the best heuristic analysis engine out there nothing compares to it according to independent tests.
Another good thing is both Avast and NOD32 are not resource hungry like mcafee or norton.
just ran avg i have 1 infected file
Trojan Horse Downloader.Agent.AQN under this file it has something about c:/windows/uninstall and in my applications about wanadoo
What is this?
it's in the virus vault but have i messed up my computer?
Thats is the same name that avg sai di had infected, 3 times, 2 files being adaware and one being a yahoo link. All 3 were legitimate so you might want to check that it isnt doing the same thing to you as it did to me, saying that liegit progrs are trojans etc.
I've since got rid of AVG ( it was a long time coming tbh ) and installed Avast!
I'll run my first full system scan in the morning but im off to my bed, night all
cheers for comments
how can i check about this i.e. legitmate programs the first time it detected this was when i ran ms antispyware and AVG flashed up on my screen saying virus detected
Then i decided to run an AVG scan and it came up with another trojan.
If you are using avg free try the avg free forum for things like this,loads of good info on there.
I agree with what you said about NOD32. It easily has the best detection rates for both known and unknown viruses. It is also the fastest virus scanner on the market, and one of the cheapest, so it really is an excellent deal.
Avast (free) is pretty good value for money. The interface is clunky, performance isn't great and it doesn't have the best detection rates, but it's definitely the best free antivirus. If you're willing to spend a little money for the better performance and extra peace of mind, however, I would go with NOD32.
AVG is just getting worse and worse all the time...
I liked the look of Avast from the website with all its " fancy " features so i'll give it a while, if i dont like it i can always ger rid and find something else
I might turn off the animated system tray icon though so I forget about it