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Offline DeathDealer

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What is this? Avast detects itself as malware???
« on: July 25, 2012, 06:56:22 PM »


Avast detects itself as malware???
« Last Edit: July 25, 2012, 07:02:27 PM by DeathDealer »
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Re: What is this? Avast detects itself as malware???
« Reply #1 on: July 25, 2012, 08:48:01 PM »
Just got that same error.  Happend either during or right after a definitions update????
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Re: What is this? Avast detects itself as malware???
« Reply #2 on: July 25, 2012, 08:59:25 PM »
Yea it happend just a second before the update popped up.
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Re: What is this? Avast detects itself as malware???
« Reply #3 on: July 25, 2012, 09:11:54 PM »
dude it happened to me just today! I'm so scared, is it a virus?
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Re: What is this? Avast detects itself as malware???
« Reply #4 on: July 25, 2012, 09:24:13 PM »
Quote from: wr3ckz on July 25, 2012, 09:11:54 PM
dude it happened to me just today! I'm so scared, is it a virus?
why scared.....its only a computer.  ;D

happend before and i guess just a hitch.....again.  ;)
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Re: What is this? Avast detects itself as malware???
« Reply #5 on: July 25, 2012, 09:26:32 PM »
Just as the others who have posted it, I have seen the warning. Alerted that my definitions have been updated, then Network Shield popped up. I thought it was a website I was visiting, then I saw it came from Avast.  ???
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Re: What is this? Avast detects itself as malware???
« Reply #6 on: July 25, 2012, 09:30:33 PM »
Quote from: Pondus on July 25, 2012, 09:24:13 PM
Quote from: wr3ckz on July 25, 2012, 09:11:54 PM
dude it happened to me just today! I'm so scared, is it a virus?
why scared.....its only a computer.  ;D

happend before and i guess just a hitch.....again.  ;)
Honestly, who wouldn't be scared? I can't afford another computer if this one breaks, especially in this economy. Now, all I want to know is if this is something to be worried about?
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Re: What is this? Avast detects itself as malware???
« Reply #7 on: July 25, 2012, 09:35:50 PM »
i guess avast team guys have already seen this topic.....and somone is now busy in the lab making a fix


if lucky they give a reply here so we know what happend.  ???
« Last Edit: July 25, 2012, 09:48:44 PM by Pondus »
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Re: What is this? Avast detects itself as malware???
« Reply #8 on: July 25, 2012, 09:44:11 PM »
Hello,
thanks for notice. It's fixed in last stream update (pkg1207250100000001.bin).

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Re: What is this? Avast detects itself as malware???
« Reply #9 on: July 25, 2012, 09:48:09 PM »
thanks for the info.  :)
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Re: What is this? Avast detects itself as malware???
« Reply #10 on: July 25, 2012, 11:27:04 PM »
Quote from: Milos on July 25, 2012, 09:44:11 PM
Hello,
thanks for notice. It's fixed in last stream update (pkg1207250100000001.bin).

Milos

So is it a false alarm.  Please provide more detail.

I saw another post http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=102019.0 that said it didn't look like an offical avast web page?
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Re: What is this? Avast detects itself as malware???
« Reply #11 on: July 26, 2012, 03:27:50 AM »
I'd like more information on this as well, my friend got it but I never did.
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Re: What is this? Avast detects itself as malware???
« Reply #12 on: July 26, 2012, 05:12:00 AM »
Hello,
we blocked IP on which was hosted also malware and this IP was not in our exclusions.

Milos
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Re: What is this? Avast detects itself as malware???
« Reply #13 on: July 26, 2012, 05:21:33 AM »
So why did people see it when they updated, I'm sorry, I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out what you mean.  I mean this isn't the first time it's happened, I'm just confused on what caused it.
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Re: What is this? Avast detects itself as malware???
« Reply #14 on: July 27, 2012, 02:21:54 PM »
Quote from: Milos on July 26, 2012, 05:12:00 AM
Hello,
we blocked IP on which was hosted also malware and this IP was not in our exclusions.

Milos

What? 

Are you saying that you blocked an IP address which hosted malware so you added it to your exclusions list?  So why did it pop up right after a definitions update?  Was I getting a virus definitions from a source other than from avast?  Following that logic I can only assume my computer is compromised?
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