Potential false positive in Avast Free?

[techercizer]

Well hell, it looks like I do have Windows Defender! Now I kind of want to uninstall it...

Either way though, I'll stop mucking around with memory scans for the time being. Thanks for the information guys! I guess my false positive was a bit of a false positive. :3

[DJBone]

You can't uninstall Windows Defender, only deactivate.

DJBone

[Pondus]

You can't uninstall Windows Defender, only deactivate.

DJBone

you can in WinXP...

[DavidR]

Well hell, it looks like I do have Windows Defender! Now I kind of want to uninstall it...

Either way though, I'll stop mucking around with memory scans for the time being. Thanks for the information guys! I guess my false positive was a bit of a false positive. :3

You're welcome.

Well MS try to sneak (windows defender (WD)) this in under the radar with some OS installs.

As mentioned it is best disabled or uninstalled, depending on your OS, which is why I asked about OS as well.

It isn't really a false positive as I said:

Having set off a scan of memory by an antivirus application looking for virus signatures, don't be too surprised if it finds some in memory