Greetings!
Being new to Avast, I had it do a full system scan last night after I installed it.
Imagine my alarm when it detected a file containing sdbot-266 on my system, when my old scanner saw nothing.
That kind of bothered me, so I have tested it against other anti-virus programs (including TrendMicro, McAfee, Norton online scanner, Norton Internet Security 2004, Panda's online scanner, and my old scanner), and all detect no problems.
I checked the forums, and found a reference to an online malware scan site (
http://virusscan.jotti.dhs.org/), and posted the file there.
Avast is the only scanner that indicates there is an issue. mks_vir *thinks* there may be an issue with it, and the other scanners on that site passed the file.
I'm beginning to think it's a false positive, here. The file has never been executed on this system, it is contained to a folder, and nothing else seems to indicate an issue. Avast indicates this trojan was discovered in June 2004, (TrendMicro was October) so I'm thinking if there was any false positive issues with this Trojan, they would have been resolved by now.
Ideas?
Thanks in advance!