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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: drahnier on April 11, 2008, 01:22:02 PM

Title: avast 4.8.1178: A Rootkit Was Found!
Post by: drahnier on April 11, 2008, 01:22:02 PM

... and I'm pretty sure it is a false positive. Besides, avast 4.6.1169 didn't flag it.

Title: Re: avast 4.8.1178: A Rootkit Was Found!
Post by: Vlk on April 11, 2008, 03:12:09 PM

As a matter of fact, the antirootkit component is in the virus database, so it is independent of program version (build 1169 or 1178).
Are you getting this message on every boot? Or it happened just once?

Title: Re: avast 4.8.1178: A Rootkit Was Found!
Post by: drahnier on April 11, 2008, 03:38:06 PM

Quote from: Vlk on April 11, 2008, 03:12:09 PM

As a matter of fact, the antirootkit component is in the virus database, so it is independent of program version (build 1169 or 1178).
Are you getting this message on every boot? Or it happened just once?

So it might have been caused by todays definition update. - I have just rebooted and this time I did not receive a rootkit warning.

Title: Re: avast 4.8.1178: A Rootkit Was Found!
Post by: Lisandro on April 11, 2008, 03:51:06 PM

Can you send the samples to virus@avast.com ?
You can zip and password the files... Inform a link to this thread and the password used.
You can send the files to Chest and, from there, resend to Alwil for analysis.
Thanks.

This link is a tutorial on how to help correct a virus detection that you believe to be false:
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=25009.msg204838#msg204838
or http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=7779.msg62586#msg62586