Author Topic: microsoft knowledgebase.url trojan reported (false positive?)  (Read 5450 times)

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ady4um

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Re: microsoft knowledgebase.url trojan reported (false positive?)
« Reply #15 on: January 06, 2012, 11:45:00 AM »
Just a little comment: If the program detected as PUP is not supposed to be there (the user have no idea that he installed such program), then it is indeed a problem.

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Re: microsoft knowledgebase.url trojan reported (false positive?)
« Reply #16 on: January 06, 2012, 03:42:52 PM »
My system is fully updated as far as I know. I go to the MS update site and they say I have no updates to install.
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Re: microsoft knowledgebase.url trojan reported (false positive?)
« Reply #17 on: January 06, 2012, 04:06:11 PM »
Just a little comment: If the program detected as PUP is not supposed to be there (the user have no idea that he installed such program), then it is indeed a problem.
In this case, they are programs that belongs to hp.....and there have been issues posted on these before


http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=77326.0
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=61928.0

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=85044.0
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=91367.0


these are just some of the search results....


windward

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Re: microsoft knowledgebase.url trojan reported (false positive?)
« Reply #18 on: January 06, 2012, 09:10:08 PM »
Thanks for your help. I appreciate it!
Aloha,
Jim