Idontknowme Posted December 3, 2009 ID:165508 Share Posted December 3, 2009 People, Avast! Has GONE LOCO/Crazy/Insane.. the lastest definitions are flagging anything that is written with Delphi ( from what i can tell ) as a virus (Win32: Delf Mzg) and ( Win32:Zbot MKK). I believe it all to be FALSE Positive.I wanted to see how far it will go... it flagged over 33 files... 2 of which was in my system 32 folder. Anyone else have this problem?? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff TeMerc Posted December 3, 2009 Staff ID:165509 Share Posted December 3, 2009 I've had two f\ps tonite, one for MailWasherPro and one for Vista Start Menu. Reported both.Avast forums are full of users with f\ps too Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Idontknowme Posted December 3, 2009 Author ID:165510 Share Posted December 3, 2009 I've had two f\ps tonite, one for MailWasherPro and one for Vista Start Menu. Reported both.Avast forums are full of users with f\ps tooI was wondering a system restore should fix this right? I have already restore 2 of my system 32 files. As for the rest a uninstall and reinstall should do the trick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mountaintree16 Posted December 3, 2009 ID:165513 Share Posted December 3, 2009 Yep, a lot of people are having issues with it flagging stuff Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
prairie dog Posted December 3, 2009 ID:165516 Share Posted December 3, 2009 here's a thread on it at wilders Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
YoKenny1 Posted December 3, 2009 ID:165525 Share Posted December 3, 2009 I just updated to definitions version 091203-1 and the FP detected with Browser Defender has been fixed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff TeMerc Posted December 3, 2009 Staff ID:165532 Share Posted December 3, 2009 From SANS:We have received a number of reports of Avast Antivirus false positives (Thanks Ken, Don, Luca & others). With a recent update the Avast antivirus product have started identifying legitimate products as containing Win32-Dell-MZG. The Avast forum is awash with some of the products that have been tagged, many of which are known to be good and have been functioning quite normally. The recommendation at the moment is to not reply delete or quarantine files as this may fry the product they belong to (a few readers are currently reinstalling applications). As far as we know the files are consistently identified as Win32-Dell-MZG so if others pop up there is a fair chance that these are legit.http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=7681&rss Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega40 Posted December 5, 2009 ID:166636 Share Posted December 5, 2009 It's ok now..panic is over. http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=51783.0 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mountaintree16 Posted December 5, 2009 ID:166696 Share Posted December 5, 2009 Attention! Anyone that uses or used Avast! and may have removed files/programs because of the FP's issue, please see sho-dan's post here: http://www.malwarebytes.org/forums/index.p...st&p=166669 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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