AVG also tells me I have Trojan Horse

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Michael Webster

I have the free version of AVG and on 10 April 2004 it also told me I had
Trojan Horse (X4).

Is this a spoof from AVG or an over reaction?

How many others had an alert similar to this over Easter (9-11 April)

Mike.
 
Michael Webster said:
I have the free version of AVG and on 10 April 2004 it also told me I had
Trojan Horse (X4).

Is this a spoof from AVG or an over reaction?

How many others had an alert similar to this over Easter (9-11 April)

Mike.
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I have AVG free, also. Are your virus definitions updated? For me, AVG isn't
the best at removing trojans/worms, but go to Panda's site to do an online
virus scan, for free. It removes worms/trojans just fine, IMO. Here it is:
http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/com/activescan_principal.htm
There's other free online scans out there, too. Maybe you could do a scan
with Spybot &/or Ad-Aware as well, & see what that brings up, & also run
Hijack this, & if it's bad enough, or you don't know what it found, you can
post its findings to a forum that deals with Hijack This. (Do a Google on
those programs if you don't know what they are.) I'd post the site of the
Hijack This forum, but I don't know it off the top of my head.
 
I have the free version of AVG and on 10 April 2004 it also told me I had
Trojan Horse (X4).

Is this a spoof from AVG or an over reaction?

How many others had an alert similar to this over Easter (9-11 April)
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Yep -- been there; I updated and did a scan and found something like
you noted; "eliminated" the problem and got a clean scan.

Two weeks later -- updated the virus defs and virus showed up again
with a slightly different name.

I got rid of it by following the information via the DOS scanner --
cleaned up and got a clean bill of health -- HOWEVER, I was a little
skeptical at this point

Downloaded Avast ! ( then uninstalled AVG ) -- and it found three
more infected files with an initial scan.

AVG did me well for quite awhile and I can't really complain because
of the price -- but I'm moving on.
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Steven L. Johnson - Aiken, South Carolina (USA)
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Hi Steve,

I had the same thing happen when I switched to Avast 4 Home.
Picked up several viruses that AVG missed.
I guess I should not complain since it was free.
Avast seems to be just fine though.
You getting any kernel error messages from AVG after loading Avast?
Notice my post from this morning.

Thanks,

Jack Barrett
http://windsurf_2.tripod.com
 
I totally uninstalled AVG prior to installing Avast -- follow
"conventional wisdom" and don't try to have two anti-virus programs at
the same time.



Hi Steve,

I had the same thing happen when I switched to Avast 4 Home.
Picked up several viruses that AVG missed.
I guess I should not complain since it was free.
Avast seems to be just fine though.
You getting any kernel error messages from AVG after loading Avast?
Notice my post from this morning.

Thanks,

Jack Barrett
http://windsurf_2.tripod.com
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Steven L. Johnson - Aiken, South Carolina (USA)
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Me too, except the files picked up by Avast were false hits, forget the
details but that's not the real problem I've had with AVG. It finds the
virus, but makes me do a full scan before it offers to fix!!. I'm still
using NAV for my main partition of xp, still undecided what to switch to
when registration runs out. Apart from the full scan nonsense I like AVG.
Dve Cohen
 
Actually I think you can say this about *every* virus scanner. Just
recently I started using AVG instead of Avast because AVG detects a trojan
that Avast didn't. The Avast authors admitted it was a trojan when I sent
it in also, but they never added it to their virus database, and to this day
still haven't. Another person sent in several viruses that Avast didn't
detect, and they never added his either.
 
I sent a suspect file to Avast on 21 Apr. Their response on 22 Apr:
~~~~~~~~~~
Hi BoB,

BoB wrote:
Attached zip contains an undetected worm [Win32.Spybot] that is
detected by EZTrust and AVG.

BoB
thank you for sending us the sample. Detection will be added ASAP.
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Karel Divis
Virus analyst
Alwil software
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The next update detected the worm. I've sent others with the
same result. The system works for me.

I also get good responses from AVG, EZTrust and F-Prot for
DOS when it is 'their' system that is missing an item.

BoB
 
That doesn't explain why they didn't add mine though. Nor did they add
other peoples.

Here is my proof, a link directly to the Avast message board.

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?board=4;action=display;threadid=3519;start=0

The virus I sent in was called by AVG a "Trojan horse Dropper.Small.HD" and
some other virus scanners called it a ProRat trojan.


BoB said:
I sent a suspect file to Avast on 21 Apr. Their response on 22 Apr:
~~~~~~~~~~
Hi BoB,

BoB wrote:
Attached zip contains an undetected worm [Win32.Spybot] that is
detected by EZTrust and AVG.

BoB
thank you for sending us the sample. Detection will be added ASAP.
Click to expand...
Karel Divis
Virus analyst
Alwil software
Click to expand...
~~~~~~~~~~~~

The next update detected the worm. I've sent others with the
same result. The system works for me.

I also get good responses from AVG, EZTrust and F-Prot for
DOS when it is 'their' system that is missing an item.

BoB
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I and other users appreciate that you keep punching away to ensure
a good database. I had to repeatedly send a new virus to F-Prot once
for some reason. It took 3 weeks before they got the defs updated.

I noticed the response below 'trying' to explain the difficulties.
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Re:Why don't you add definitions for undetected viruses?
« Reply #5 on: March 26, 2004, 07:47:09 AM »
Hi,

we are currently receiving more than 300 mails to virus @avast.com
together with samples daily. We are analyzing all of them and if they
are viruses/trojans, which we do not detect, we are adding them into the
database - but if it is not an emergency sample, it could take some time
before it appears in it. We are unfortunately not able to answer ALL
those mails...

Pavel
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BoB


That doesn't explain why they didn't add mine though. Nor did they add
other peoples.

Here is my proof, a link directly to the Avast message board.

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?board=4;action=display;threadid=3519;start=0

The virus I sent in was called by AVG a "Trojan horse Dropper.Small.HD" and
some other virus scanners called it a ProRat trojan.


BoB said:
I sent a suspect file to Avast on 21 Apr. Their response on 22 Apr:
~~~~~~~~~~
Hi BoB,

BoB wrote:
Attached zip contains an undetected worm [Win32.Spybot] that is
detected by EZTrust and AVG.

BoB
thank you for sending us the sample. Detection will be added ASAP.
Click to expand...
Karel Divis
Virus analyst
Alwil software
Click to expand...
~~~~~~~~~~~~

The next update detected the worm. I've sent others with the
same result. The system works for me.

I also get good responses from AVG, EZTrust and F-Prot for
DOS when it is 'their' system that is missing an item.

BoB
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