I've asked Avast why I'm seeing false alarms against many
folder.htt files. I stopped the scan after several were
detected as containing malware script. Has anyone else seen
this with the latest definitions, 308-2?

BoB

Yes, I'm getting the same as well. I have also just downloaded the latest
version of WinRAR from www.rarlabs.com and its detecting a W32:Trojan-gen in
the archive which seems unlikely so I suspect this is also a false positive.

Richard

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"BoB" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I've asked Avast why I'm seeing false alarms against many
> folder.htt files. I stopped the scan after several were
> detected as containing malware script. Has anyone else seen
> this with the latest definitions, 308-2?
>
> BoB
>

On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 19:26:25 +0100, "Richard Amuzu"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Yes, I'm getting the same as well. I have also just downloaded the latest
>version of WinRAR from www.rarlabs.com and its detecting a W32:Trojan-gen in
>the archive which seems unlikely so I suspect this is also a false positive.
>
>Richard

Thanks for the confirmation Richard, and I get the same msg on
ZIP.SFX within the Winrar.exe. :-)
I'm surprised they haven't issued a new def file. I advised them
ASAP so maybe soon.

BoB

On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 19:18:22 -0400, BoB <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 19:26:25 +0100, "Richard Amuzu"
><(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>Yes, I'm getting the same as well. I have also just downloaded the latest
>>version of WinRAR from www.rarlabs.com and its detecting a W32:Trojan-gen in
>>the archive which seems unlikely so I suspect this is also a false positive.
>>
>>Richard
>
>Thanks for the confirmation Richard, and I get the same msg on
>ZIP.SFX within the Winrar.exe. :-)
>I'm surprised they haven't issued a new def file. I advised them
>ASAP so maybe soon.
>
>BoB

Received a response from Avast:
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Subject: Re: False alarms with latest definitions - folder.htt
From: "Vladimir Cernik" <(E-Mail Removed)>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 12:54:06 +0200

Hello,
It's really our false alarm. I try to repair it in next version.
Best regards Cernik
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BoB