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itgotme
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False Positive? Win32:Adware-gen [Adw] - PrivBar.dll
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July 30, 2008, 03:11:37 AM »
I've had PrivBar installed as an addon in IE7 for a while now, but this morning Avast highlighted it as Adware.
I got it via here I think:
http://blogs.msdn.com/aaron_margosis/archive/2004/07/24/195350.aspx
Apparently other virus scanners such as F-Secure and AVG also originally picked it up as adware.
Could someone check to see if it's clean or whether it really is adware?
thanks
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Jtaylor83
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Re: False Positive? Win32:Adware-gen [Adw] - PrivBar.dll
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July 30, 2008, 05:14:42 AM »
To know if it's a false positive, Upload the file to
VirusTotal
and post the results.
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Frank1
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Re: False Positive? Win32:Adware-gen [Adw] - PrivBar.dll
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July 30, 2008, 02:42:21 PM »
I have the same problem. used it for some time without any problems on Win XP Pro SP2.
This false positive only stared with database Ver 080729-1.
I have uploaded privbar.dll to Total Virus and got the results here:
http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/da06f30cc85411eef0a38354d77631b8
Only Avast and Gdata have reported this as a Win32:Adware-gen.
Hope Avast can remove this as false positive.
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wyrmrider
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Re: False Positive? Win32:Adware-gen [Adw] - PrivBar.dll
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July 30, 2008, 05:37:57 PM »
itgotme do the virus total thing
then both of you
If it is indeed a false positive, see
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=34950.msg293451#msg293451
, how to report it to avast! and what to do to exclude them until the problem is corrected.
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Frank1
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Re: False Positive? Win32:Adware-gen [Adw] - PrivBar.dll
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August 01, 2008, 01:47:45 AM »
Thank you Avast!
Followed the procedure above.
This is now fixed. The virus database that does not show privbar.dll as a false positive is V080731-0.
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wyrmrider
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August 01, 2008, 02:31:52 AM »
the system works
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