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Dragon_setup.exe shows as a virus
« on: November 25, 2014, 01:12:44 PM »
Hello,

today my dragon_setup.exe popped up as a virus and was moved to the virus vault. Is this a false positive?

Original location is C:/Windows/TEMP with a WIN32:Eve-gen [Susp] description

The setup shows 3 times in the vault.

A another 3 times in c:/windows/sysWOW64/config/systemprofile/appdata/local/microsoft/windows/temporary internet files/content.IE5 as "dragonsetup[1].exe"

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Re: Dragon_setup.exe shows as a virus
« Reply #2 on: November 25, 2014, 03:06:41 PM »
I installed Ice Dragon yesterday afternoon,  Added a bunch of add-ons, which were mostly for security and privacy.  Everything worked fine but around 10 last evening I got a pop-up which showed Web Shield had blocked a malicious site.  It has something to do with js and yahoo.  I immediately uninstalled Dragon ran a quick scan and it didn't find anything, ran another one this morning and no viruses were found.
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Re: Dragon_setup.exe shows as a virus
« Reply #3 on: November 25, 2014, 03:18:21 PM »
Haven't we been there before: http://forums.comodo.com/comodo-cleaning-essentials-killswitch-autoruns-cce/how-do-i-unblock-a-processexecutable-t97036.0.html
It is with the update mechanism, a random nsis error in a generic detection.
Is software getting that complicated or is avast "seeing ghosts everywhere" and therefore creating incompatibility issues?
(MS update incompatibility. Google Chrome browser issues with their Chrome extensions, etc.).

If you do manual updates, get the same alerts?

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