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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: MIGHTYMAN on April 03, 2009, 04:22:51 AM
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Avast has detected a file in Boinc to be a Trojan horse its in one of the projects called ABC@home
The file name is abc-finder_1.03_windows_intelx86.exe
Win32:Swizzor [trj]
http://abcathome.com/
This would have to be a false positive.
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Could you post a link to the actual page that has this for download? I only saw the, "Download BOINC link" and that wasn't the same filename as what you have.
Alternatively, you could upload the file to http://www.virustotal.com and post the HYPERLINK to the results page, or use http://www.fortiguardcenter.com/antivirus/virus_scanner.html
Then, we'll have a better idea as to whether or not it's an FP, or a real virus.
It looks like a reputable source, but I've only seen folding@home, SETI@home, and the like.
They're trying to complete this? The ABC conjecture is currently one of the greatest open problems in mathematics. If it is proven to be true, a lot of other open problems can be answered directly from it.
It's funny, because with today's powerful processors, it would seem that this sort of "equation" would have been solved a long time ago.
However, without reading a darn bit of it, other than what I posted, I'll asume that it's legit.
Hope my post helps.
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Could you post a link to the actual page that has this for download? I only saw the, "Download BOINC link" and that wasn't the same filename as what you have.
Alternatively, you could upload the file to http://www.virustotal.com and post the HYPERLINK to the results page, or use http://www.fortiguardcenter.com/antivirus/virus_scanner.html
Then, we'll have a better idea as to whether or not it's an FP, or a real virus.
It looks like a reputable source, but I've only seen folding@home, SETI@home, and the like.
They're trying to complete this? The ABC conjecture is currently one of the greatest open problems in mathematics. If it is proven to be true, a lot of other open problems can be answered directly from it.
It's funny, because with today's powerful processors, it would seem that this sort of "equation" would have been solved a long time ago.
However, without reading a darn bit of it, other than what I posted, I'll asume that it's legit.
Hope my post helps.
Cant actually give you the link to download it, the Boinc client downloads it itself.
Tried the two antivirus scanners Fortguard found nothing but Virustotal http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/3d2ecda79047465a6fbea432fe31cb28
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Seems really a false positive as G-Data uses avast scanner and only them are showing the file as infected.
Can you inform the file as being a false positive? (click on the bottom right of the virus warning message).
As a workaround, you can add these files to the Standard Shield provider (on-access scanning) exclusion list.
Left click the 'a' blue icon, click on the provider icon at left and then Customize. Go to Advanced tab and click on Add button...
You can use wildcards like * and ?. But be careful, you should 'exclude' that many files that let your system in danger.
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