lansetm.exe

[Lonely Ranger]

Hi!

New to the forum, long time Avast! user.

Similar to some other threads, Avast! detected lansetm.exe under windows\options\cabs. I've uploaded the file to jotti and Virustotal and the only programs that seem to find malware are Avast! and GData.

I'm pretty sure this is a false positive, what do you think?

EDIT: links to the scans

http://virusscan.jotti.org/en-gb/scanresult/5916887d60cec425998cc27b7711aeb5d84925cc/e5c74530d3a84ea695fd7b11247424020586589c

http://www.virustotal.com/sl/analisis/16a22f844319328e3bc593378a080063b30bf9fe6ed7a2ebc3acb5f32f744beb-1263896728

EDIT2: just ran SAS and Malwarebytes, none of them detected anything (even though I did not quarantine the file with avast!)

[FreewheelinFrank]

check this link for info on suspected false positives.

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?board=2;action=display;threadid=7779

[Lonely Ranger]

check this link for info on suspected false positives.

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?board=2;action=display;threadid=7779

Thank you, I'll follow the instructions and send the file to avast.

But more than that, I was wondering if this was a known issue, since so many threads have been created recently regarding that specific file being detected. Especially since I run daily scans with Avast! and have not changed anything on the computer in the recent days (except an update from windows), I'm assuming the file popped up as a virus due to an Avast definitions update.

[Lonely Ranger]

Update: I guess it was a false positive, since the last update Avast! doesn't detect it as malware anymore.