Author Topic: SOFTWARE.OLD .... is it a trojan or an FP  (Read 10103 times)

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Gentleman

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Re: SOFTWARE.OLD .... is it a trojan or an FP
« Reply #15 on: December 04, 2009, 07:08:26 PM »
Thanks Scott for replying. I knew it was doing something along those lines, but I just don't know why it was from c:\suspect folder and why it happened when it did. Because while I did try to submit the file to avast back on the 28th, I tried to submit it from the virus chest (with the right-click>email to avast option), not c:\suspect. So I'm not sure why it was uploading from c:\suspect (which is a folder I created because of this suspected virus so I could manually upload it for testing purposes). And I don't even think I had any files in c:\suspect at the times it was uploading. It didn't make any sense.

Ultimately what I ended up doing was uninstalling and reinstalling avast just in case I had messed something up with it.
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Re: SOFTWARE.OLD .... is it a trojan or an FP
« Reply #16 on: December 04, 2009, 07:20:46 PM »
UPDATE: I just checked my email and I got a reply from Avast. The virus analyst said the file is NOT a false positive. So the file is malicious.

Not the news I wanted to hear.

:(