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justin1278

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true or false positive
« on: July 05, 2005, 07:00:20 PM »
I went to www. stopsign.com and was just looking around the site and when i clicked free virus scan avast popped up and said it found a virus and to abort the connection so i did and i figured that the virus must be from the stop sign website so i would like to know if it is a real virus or just a false positive the virus was called win32.wren[Trj]

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Re: true or false positive
« Reply #1 on: July 05, 2005, 07:08:25 PM »
It's true. Stop-Sign (and other from that page) is a rouge program.
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Re: true or false positive
« Reply #2 on: July 05, 2005, 07:13:16 PM »
is there a way to stop stop sign?

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Re: true or false positive
« Reply #3 on: July 05, 2005, 07:37:04 PM »
I believe that this has already been discussed, try a forum search for stop sign or stopsign.
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