5748 Problems Found

[garfield1211]

Just ran a scan on my Samsung Galaxy S3 and Avast reported over 5,748 problems. All of them being the same thing "Invalid Context During Scan" and it was with EVERY app that's on the phone. What is going on here?

[sowen222]

Seems a very large number of users are getting this now. Looks like a bad update of the virus definitions, is my guess.

[Filip Havlicek]

Hi,

that is exactly what happened. We stopped distributing the affected virus definitions and are already working on releasing a fixed version.

Filip

[sowen222]

Thanks. Perhaps revert to the previous one in the meantime, otherwise you'll get a lot more confused users ;-)

[Filip Havlicek]

We did, but we can't revert those who already updated

Filip

[sowen222]

Can't you just change the version number so it will roll out again even to those who updated?

[Filip Havlicek]

Yep, that is what we are doing right know, but the build, distribution etc takes some time to complete.

Filip

[garfield1211]

Thanks for the clarification! Brand new droid and after the news about a Trojan horse last week, I thought I'd been infected. Glad it's just a software problem.

[Filip Havlicek]

Hi,

I think the update is out. Can you try it?

Filip

[garfield1211]

Says current version is 130129-02

Is this the new one?

[Filip Havlicek]

Yep, that is correct. You need to initiate a rescan though to get rid of the problems.

Filip

[garfield1211]

Scanning now. Will let you know of any issues.

[Filip Havlicek]

Thanks

Filip

[BobSal]

Mine says  Current Version: unknown

If I try to manually update, I get:  The downloaded virus definitions were invalid. Please, try again later.

[garfield1211]

App scan reported no problems
SD Card scan reported no problems

Looks like ya got it fixed. Thanks for gettin on this so quick. Glad I downloaded Avast! For real.