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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: The Maxx on May 27, 2004, 10:08:00 PM
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Last night after getting avast! it found a virus on my PC called w95:Matyas after doing a bit of searching I found out it was not even a virus. It's when you use a free online scanner, avast! just thinks the file(s) are a virus.
http://www.techsupportforum.com/computer/topic/12964-1.html
"they are false positives because you have just used an online scan with housecall/panda or whatever
you can post a new hijackthis log if you want, but I've seen many reports of this recently
avast seems to be finding the virus signature inside the definitions that panda/housecall is using to scan for
apparently it's a fairly common problem with avast, because of it's heuristics, it gives a lot of false positive"
So shouldn't this be fixed, so avast! doesn't think files are viruses? Just had a friend tell me "problem with freeware ;)"
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Well it can be only one and its called Panda. Sorry to say,but i don't know are their programmers retarded or what!? Havent they heard for any even the most simple encryption method to hide their definitions. Argh this really pi***s me off when such products mess with others just because they have lazy programmers.
Don't worry,avast! still rox and try to use HouseCall or RAV and Command instead of Pandas crap :)
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Thanks, thats what it was. I had Panda installed before going to avast!
it also found this virus called w32:kuang2 heard it was a password stealer but also heard that w95:matyas and w32:kuang2 were from Panda.
True? If kuang2 isn't a panda deal should I be worried and do anything extra?
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If these were found inside ActiveScan folder (in Windows\System32 dir),than its definitely Panda.
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Yeah, it says kuang2 was found in "c:windows\system32\ActiveScan\imscan.dll"