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#Avg false positive trojan horse download#
I am also rather paranoid about virus's, and I have two different antivirus's that I scan with every time I visit a unfamiliar website or download anything and I am generally wary when browsing the internet. This is a false-positive - there is no virus infection. Its unknown if other localisations/versions are affected. And yes, I downloaded the installer from the site. AVG Antivirus is reporting a Trojan virus infection in certain versions of Firefox, specifically Windows 32bit version 3.5.2, de (German) localisation. So yes, I'm sure that I haven't gotten a fake AVG warning. Trojans generally spread by some form of social engineering for example, where a user is. The term is derived from the Ancient Greek story of the deceptive Trojan Horse that led to the fall of the city of Troy.
#Avg false positive trojan horse password#
This kind of problem is known as 'False Positive' or 'False Alert', and it's quite a common problem in some of the password recovery tools provided in. There are a growing number of reports that this is a false positive within AGV. Antivirus 'False Positive' Problems Sometimes Antivirus scanner reports that a program is infected with a Virus or Trojan, even when the program is not really infected with any malicious code. I clicked the option on the AVG window to remove the alleged Trojan Horse, then scanned again with SpyBot to make sure that it wasn't the type of fake AVG warning window's that installs a trojan after an option is chosen. In computing, a Trojan horse is any malware that misleads users of its true intent. Trojan Horse SHeur.AFJ (false positive within Quickbooks/Quickin) Jby Ron Shank 40 Comments.
No results, so the AVG window seemed to be safe. I was instantly suspicious, and opened up SpyBot Search & Destroy and scanned. Of course, why would the installer of my favourite internet browser include a Trojan Horse? I mean, my Firefox browser works fine and I also just so happen to be posting this on Firefox. AVG immediately launched a warning window, saying it was a trojan and giving me an option to remove it. I created a folder named installers, and dragged in Firefox_Setup.exe first.
I was cleaning up my desktop by moving my unused files to organized folders, example being OriginalGameName being dragged into Games and I happened to have an AVG virus scan running in the backround at the same time.
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