AVG Reporting Mbam as a Trojan

[Trumph]

Hi,

First post and also new to malwarebytes, have been using another product for some time and was happy with it until it didn't remove an annoying "itch", so as I had seen the respect Mbam has I downloaded and itstalled it,and it found a few things that spybot didn't, so have been running them alongside each other for a week or so and each finds things the other don't.

BUT, I was doing a disk clean in W7 and decided to have a look at the program files, as they scrolled down, AVG triggered a Trojan warning Dropper.Genesis2.EWF, I immediately hit ignore and added mbam to the exclusion list because I know it is deeply respected and I downloaded it from the proper source so am highly inclined to trust it.

But although I know AVG can be a bit trigger happy regarding files such as cracks and keygens, I was surprised mbam triggered the resident shield.

Before anyone hammers AVG, I've used it on MANY PC'S for at least 8-10 years and it has kept virii away (spyware bit is rubbish tho), only niggle is later versions do have that feather light trigger on the shield

Mbam incidentally didn't kill the itch, I think spybot had already killed the file that did the damage, but it was a DNS Hijacker (Started with R with random letters), but hostexpert and hijackthis killed the after effects.

Has anyone else had mbam trigger AVG ?

Gary

PS... Before anyone asks Trumph is short for Triumph as in motorcycles, so I guess should end in a "f" really LOL

[prairie dog]

Have a look here and see if that helps

[mountaintree16]

AVG...

This has happened off and on since sometime mid to late last year... Mbam is definitely not a trojan, so you can safely de-quarantine the detection of Malwarebytes. This keeps happening, goodness knows why!

Also, please do follow the instructions in the link given by prairie dog to add exclusions for Mbam to AVG if you haven't already done so.

As a side note, when replying, please use the "ADD REPLY" button located at the bottom of the page, as this makes the forum easier to read.

Thank you

[TeMerc]

I don't think AVG has gone more than a month in 8 months without hitting our files. Makes one wonder about quality control in whomever is making detection adjustments, at the very least, it's not inspiring confidence that's for sure.

[mountaintree16]

Just to add on here, I did some hunting around in the forum and here is a past topic that you may take a look at where this issue has happened before.

http://forums.malwarebytes.org/index.php?s...banker+detected

[DarkSnakeKobra]

Makes you wonder if AVG is targeting other products so they'll stick with just one. If that's the case then that's very bad practice. Shame on them.

[catscomputer]

Makes you wonder if AVG is targeting other products so they'll stick with just one. If that's the case then that's very bad practice. Shame on them.

I don't think so Buttons. In their canned instructions for cleaning an infected computer on the free forum they do recommend using Malwarebytes.

It's not good how frequently they hose MBAM files though.

[DarkSnakeKobra]

I don't think so Buttons. In their canned instructions for cleaning an infected computer on the free forum they do recommend using Malwarebytes.

It's not good how frequently they hose MBAM files though.

That's good news there.

But it seems its been happening for a while. Should have been fixed already.