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Johnwayne

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False positive possibly found
« on: July 13, 2008, 01:01:20 AM »
A small application called 'flashmute' is being detected as having adware by avast. Those at www.softpedia.com claim to have tested the program and stated the program is clean.
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Jtaylor83

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Re: False positive possibly found
« Reply #1 on: July 13, 2008, 02:40:50 AM »
To know if it's a false positive, upload the file to VirusTotal and post the results.

Some downloads on Softpedia can be very malicious. You may need to be careful what you download when you visit the site.

There have been reviews on SiteAdvisor that Softpedia is very dangerous and some of their downloads contain adware, trojans, rogue software, spyware, unwanted BHOs and toolbars.

You may need to scan the link with Dr. Web's link checker.
« Last Edit: July 13, 2008, 04:42:42 AM by Jtaylor83 »
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Re: False positive possibly found
« Reply #2 on: July 14, 2008, 12:21:37 AM »
Yes, a false positive.
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Rafel

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Re: False positive possibly found
« Reply #3 on: July 14, 2008, 01:45:33 AM »
If you download this tool from his official site(http://www.indev.no/?p=projects)...
AVAST alert.



Is a program of 2006. I think is a FP.
« Last Edit: July 14, 2008, 01:51:58 AM by Rafel »
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Jtaylor83

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Re: False positive possibly found
« Reply #4 on: July 14, 2008, 01:57:37 AM »
I hope Alwil will fix this FP.
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a_cicovic

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Re: False positive possibly found
« Reply #5 on: October 21, 2008, 10:24:46 PM »
Any updates from ALWIL on that one?  It seems to me that the specific issue has been around for a long time, long before this thread was started.
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Offline DavidR

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Re: False positive possibly found
« Reply #6 on: October 22, 2008, 12:33:10 AM »
Well many other scanners don't like it either, some reporting it isn't a virus but Adware.BetterInternet, etc. http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/fa9e867f156c8e150491517a4ed89dd9, so that is probably why avast hasn't removed the detection.
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Re: False positive possibly found
« Reply #7 on: October 22, 2008, 12:37:25 AM »
Hi DavidR,

Is it flagged because it is an unwanted BHO and a questionable pop-up launcher?

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