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Offline Happychappy

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threat blocked (poss false positive )
« on: February 15, 2017, 05:05:53 PM »
Just brought my laptop out of hibernation and avast warns threat blocked.

scanned with avast and malwarebytes and no threat found.

whats your thoughts guys ?
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Re: threat blocked (poss false positive )
« Reply #1 on: February 15, 2017, 05:14:13 PM »
Please post in the correct forum next time. (viruses and worms)

Read this > https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=197144.0
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Offline Happychappy

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Re: threat blocked (poss false positive )
« Reply #2 on: February 15, 2017, 05:19:02 PM »
Thanks for the link,reassuring to know it is a FP.  and will be sorted soon  :)
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Re: threat blocked (poss false positive )
« Reply #3 on: February 15, 2017, 05:23:26 PM »
Unless avast made a mistake, it is already solved.
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Offline Happychappy

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Re: threat blocked (poss false positive )
« Reply #4 on: February 15, 2017, 05:28:40 PM »
My laptop was switched of for about 3 hours,so on booting up it must have had the old definitions,did a full reboot and no problems now.

Glad back to normal  ;D
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