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Dixon Butz

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False Positive: Ad Muncher
« on: July 12, 2008, 12:41:06 PM »
Virus def's as of July 11th. says that admucher.exe is a Win32:Trojan-gen {Other}. It is not. It has not changed in a month. I have been in contact with the developer. Please fix this false positive.

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Re: False Positive: Ad Muncher
« Reply #1 on: July 12, 2008, 01:08:49 PM »
Virus def's as of July 11th. says that admucher.exe is a Win32:Trojan-gen {Other}. It is not. It has not changed in a month. I have been in contact with the developer. Please fix this false positive.

It seems to be a false positive on the lastest build of the 12th ( Ad Muncher v4.72 Build 30400/2021.)
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kstev99

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Re: False Positive: Ad Muncher
« Reply #2 on: July 12, 2008, 01:54:24 PM »
I had the same problem with admunch.exe being detected as a trojan.  My wife moved the file to the virus chest and I had to reinstall the program this morning.  The installation executable Am-install.exe was also flagged as a virus.  I submitted the file Admunch.exe to Avast.  Admunch is SAFE.. I have been using it since 2003 and as you said, the file hasn't changed in over a month.

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Re: False Positive: Ad Muncher
« Reply #3 on: July 12, 2008, 01:58:11 PM »
I installed admuncher with avast protection disabled and thought it was fine ,however avast seems to be stopping it loading with windows every boot.No doubt avast will fix this shortly.
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Re: False Positive: Ad Muncher
« Reply #4 on: July 12, 2008, 04:13:48 PM »
Windows 10 Home 64bit/ Acer Aspire F15/ Intel Core i5 7200U 2.5GHz, 8GB DDR4 memory, 256GB SSD, 1TB HDD/ avast! free 24.3.6108 (build 24.3.8975.762) UI 1.0.801/ Firefox, uBlock Origin, uMatrix/ MailWasher Pro/ Avast! Mobile Security

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Re: False Positive: Ad Muncher
« Reply #5 on: July 12, 2008, 04:18:49 PM »
Also see this post, http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=37009.msg309839#msg309839

Thanks david ..
I have put admuncher in exclusion list for now ,which lets it load and function.
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Re: False Positive: Ad Muncher
« Reply #6 on: July 12, 2008, 06:43:17 PM »
false positive alert has been fixed in next VPS 080712-1
« Last Edit: July 12, 2008, 11:59:09 PM by misak »

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Re: False Positive: Ad Muncher
« Reply #7 on: July 12, 2008, 06:47:08 PM »
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