Comments on: AVG False Positive

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 14 May 2009 06:21:29 +0000

duderindy :man as u said.. its OFF t o p i c

By: Clive Hetherington

Clive Hetherington — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 18:00:46 +0000

Hi Jeff, I downloaded jetstart (freeware) and audiosliders directly from your site – scans came back clear for asliders but came back with Win32.Beginto.h!A2 for jetstart. I did a search to see if others had found any malware in your products and eventually got to here. So, I did as you recommend and put them through; at virusscan.jotti.org or at http://www.virustotal.com. And they BOTH confirm this ‘adware’ as present and virustotal.com also marks two others as present. I also downloaded jetstart from softpedia which usually makes sure there is nothing ‘extra’ in downloads and I get the same jetstart 4.4 from here too? Would you like to check this and get back to me? Thanks

By: sunny

sunny — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 01:47:44 +0000

hi. i have been using teracopy 2b4 for more than 2 months now n i have avg 8 since before that. also, l hav comodo firewall pro installed. i never had a problem with teracopy n avg. both r rockng products and all they ever need are updates.

By: kjv1611

kjv1611 — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:13:54 +0000

I had this issue on 2 or 3 computers at the same time a while back – few months ago. It has since been corrected, so if you are still having issues, make sure you have the most recent updates for AVG.

I was bewildered myself, at the time, as I didn’t want to use another AV app, as AVG has been my #1 choice now for at least 5 or 6 years, or thereabout. So I initially uninstalled TeraCopy, and just waited for a while to reinstall. By that time, the updates had been applied, and corrected the issues – no false positives at all.

By: Hendrik

Hendrik — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:42:43 +0000

I havent had any problems like this with AVG 8 or 7.5 all my PC’s are running Happy Chappy

By: mohamed

mohamed — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:09:14 +0000

what the code of AVG8?

By: JP Loken

JP Loken — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:36:43 +0000

TeraCopy 2.0 beta 4: AVG hasn’t fixed the problem yet.

By: VundoRemover

VundoRemover — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:21:05 +0000

False positives are frustrating, but missed infections are way worse. So I believe checking the detected files before removing them is not a bad idea. I found out that SUPERAntiSpyware (as well as Spyware Detector) detect as malware… .png screenshots! I named them to reflect the taken images (like antispywaremaster_scan.png, etc), and SAS thought it was malicious. Looks like algorithms “read” the filenames, too.

By: mark e

mark e — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:53:10 +0000

yea avg is pretty suckie these days…avast seem to be the better free solution now.

also, superantispyware does a nice job with vuendo…

thxs for the utility!
- mark

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:20:33 +0000

I’ve had false messages too,, but with ESET Smart Security (Business), and not with AVG (which really sucks). AVG flagged so many of my program installs over the years that I vowed never to use it again. Or, for that matter, any Zone Alarm product.

After switching to ESET, life has been good, with a really fine firewall, plus reliable virus and spyware protection. That is, until these false flaggings occurred. As soon as Teracopy begins installing, ESET flashes up three different messages, but so fast and dim that I couldn’t read them for any details.

At the same time, PC Tools Spyware Doctor was sitting in the system tray, totally calm. It is the best program I’ve found, and has even removed different versions of the Vundo family, when Spybot never saw them in the first place.

XP Pro (Corporate) running on AMD Athlon 64bit CPU with 1G memory, plus 1.4T of storage (400G in case, and two 500Gs on USB.