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Uninstalling Yahoo Toolbar Gives False Positive?
« on: August 22, 2016, 08:38:50 PM »
Not liking the new Yahoo messenger I reinstalled my old one and even though I do believe I didn't click a check for the toolbar to be installed it apparently was anyways.

I only had to disable it in Internet Explorer, it doesn't appear in Edge (using Windows 10).

But I wanted to uninstall it but when I go to remove programs and try to Avast will block the process, and flag as Win32:Dropper-gen [Drp].

This must certainly be a false positive since it's just a Yahoo thing from Yahoo but I was wondering about anyone else's experiences...I didn't find much in answers by Googling around.  Seems it has happened with others but there were little resolutions to see what happened.  I did see that Win32:Dropper-gen [Drp] can make for false positives out there.

Thanks for any info.



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Re: Uninstalling Yahoo Toolbar Gives False Positive?
« Reply #1 on: August 23, 2016, 06:44:00 AM »
You can report a suspected FP here: https://www.avast.com/false-positive-file-form.php
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