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Other => Viruses and worms => Topic started by: justmal on July 01, 2009, 04:15:42 AM

Title: virus
Post by: justmal on July 01, 2009, 04:15:42 AM

 :o Avast is showing Yahelite build 329.8 build as a virus, all other builds are clear, this only just started today, how can i fix this?  :'(

Title: Re: virus
Post by: DavidR on July 01, 2009, 04:29:55 AM

You could also check the offending/suspect file at: VirusTotal - Multi engine on-line virus scanner (http://www.virustotal.com/) and report the findings here the URL in the Address bar of the VT results page. You can't do this with the file securely in the chest, you need to extract it to a temporary (not original) location first, see below.

Create a folder called Suspect in the C:\ drive, e.g. C:\Suspect. Now exclude that folder in the Standard Shield, Customize, Advanced, Add, type (or copy and paste) C:\Suspect\* That will stop the standard shield scanning any file you put in that folder. You should now be able to export any file in the chest to this folder and upload it to VirusTotal without avast alerting.

If it is indeed a false positive, see http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=34950.msg293451#msg293451 (http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=34950.msg293451#msg293451), how to report it to avast! and what to do to exclude them until the problem is corrected.