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#1 OFFLINE   rridgely

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Posted 15 March 2007 - 12:59 AM

I just installed AVG antivirus on one of my computers, and for some strange reason its detecting Hijackthis 2 beta as having a virus.
Of course this is just a false positive, but I wanted to give you all the heads up if your using AVG.

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I'm about to report it now to Grisoft. :)

#2 OFFLINE   Andavari

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Posted 15 March 2007 - 02:46 AM

Confirmed!

I just love how AVG "heals" files, it merely moves them to the Virus Vault without saying too much, then again that's the first detection I've seen in v7.5. :rolleyes:
Complexity of incoherent design.

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Posted 15 March 2007 - 02:53 AM

I uploaded it to VirusTotal and Panda also labelled it as 'Suspicious', nothing else did though.

#4 OFFLINE   rridgely

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Posted 15 March 2007 - 01:10 PM

This should be fixed with the update that they just released.