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File reputation Warning about MY Dell - Another possible false positive??
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November 16, 2013, 12:57:14 PM »
During the "My Dell" appupdater.exe process, a warning popped up asking to abort (or not to abort) the file download of a file since it's a rarely seen file.
Is this legit or just what?
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of the warning from Avast...
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Re: File reputation Warning about MY Dell - Another possible false positive??
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November 16, 2013, 01:10:31 PM »
As the location looks good then you can accept it.. It is your Dell updating
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Re: File reputation Warning about MY Dell - Another possible false positive??
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November 16, 2013, 01:21:35 PM »
Plus it is a Reputation based warning not an definitive alert. As you can imagine these patches having only just been released won't have been encountered much before. Even more so as the actual file name is pretty random looking and having a double file extension (.exe.000) can at times be considered suspicious.
But as essexboy said it appears to be legit and we have had one other avast user report this reputation warning popup.
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Thank you sirs!
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No problem, glad we could help.
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