AVG False Positive

A few days ago AVG reported the Klone.P virus in TeraCopy and Direct Folders. It was quickly fixed with the next AVG update, but now it detects Klone.Z virus in the same files. Personally I wouldn’t trust antivirus that can’t make a decision about virus name. 🙂 You may check your files at virusscan.jotti.org or at www.virustotal.com.

If you want to report the false positive please read here (thanks to Jonathan for link).

You can disable AVG from scanning some folders. To do this:
1. Start AVG user interface
2. Select “Tools” – Advanced settings
3. Select “Resident Shield” – “Exceptions”
4. Click on “Add Path”
5. Browse to the path to be excluded from AVG scanning
6. Click on OK

From: AVG Technical Support [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 29 May 2008 12:28 PM

AVG Anti-virus Research Lab has analyzed the file(s) you have sent from your AVG Virus Vault. Below you can find the results for each file. The final verdict on the file is either a correct detection or a false positive detection.

“C:\Program Files\TeraCopy\TeraCopy.exe” – false alarm

Best regards,

AVG Technical Support
website: http://www.avg.com

Direct Folders 3.3

  • Added: Roll-up and Always on Top feature.
    • Right-click on the Maximize button to roll-up window and on the Close button to set it Always on Top.
  • Added: Multi-monitor support.
  • Changed: Removed files from the Recent menu since they handled by Windows itself.
  • Added: Better handling an incorrect recent folders path.
  • Added: Option to prevent specific applications to change global recent folders.
  • Added: Hold the Ctrl key to open a folder in the new Explorer window.
  • Added: Right-click on Direct Folders menu to get a context menu.

TeraCopy 2.0 beta 3

  • Fixed: Access violation error when calculating CRC.
  • Fixed: Hanging on same drive copy on single core CPU systems.
  • Changed: Sound is off by default.
  • Added: Progress bar color settings.
  • Added: ‘TestAlways’ option in the ini file

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