I've been using AVG8 antivirus for months with no problems. Suddenly,
it started finding literally
hundreds of trojans in my iTunes program directory. I thought
something had infected iTunes,
so I uninstalled it completely. However, when I tried to reinstall it,
AVG started finding
"infected files" straight from the iTunes setup file. In then end, I
gave up and switched
from AVG to AVAST, which has no complaints.

Has anyone else had this problem, or know what it's all about?

Thanks,
jc

jc wrote:
> I've been using AVG8 antivirus for months with no problems.
> Suddenly, it started finding literally
> hundreds of trojans in my iTunes program directory. I thought
> something had infected iTunes,
> so I uninstalled it completely. However, when I tried to reinstall
> it, AVG started finding
> "infected files" straight from the iTunes setup file. In then end,
> I gave up and switched
> from AVG to AVAST, which has no complaints.
>
> Has anyone else had this problem, or know what it's all about?


You posted here:
microsoft.public.windowsxp.configuration_manage
comp.os.ms-windows.misc

Microsoft Windows/Windows XP (in one case - configuration and managing)
newsgroups...

.... and asked about these two applications:
AVG AntiVirus
Apple iTunes

Neither of which have to to with Microsoft or Windows/Windows XP other than
they both can be used on said platform.

It would seem your issue is actually with AVG - what do you get from the
support there? It is more likely those knowledgable on the subject at hand
(AVG) would be there than here.

http://www.avg.com/support
http://www.avg.com/freeforum-guide-post
http://forums.avg.com/
http://oldfreeforum.avg.com/

Good luck!

I'd personally suggest Avira right now.

On Jul 25, 2:09*am, jc <cirej...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I've been using AVG8 antivirus for months with no problems. *Suddenly,
> it started finding literally
> hundreds of trojans in my iTunes program directory. *I thought
> something had infected iTunes,
> so I uninstalled it completely. However, when I tried to reinstall it,
> AVG started finding
> "infected files" straight from the iTunes setup file. *In then end, I
> gave up and switched
> from AVG to AVAST, which has no complaints.
>
> Has anyone else had this problem, or know what it's all about?
>
> Thanks,
> jc

It seems that AVG is at fault.

Why aren't you asking AVG?

"jc" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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:
: I've been using AVG8 antivirus for months with no problems. Suddenly,
: it started finding literally
: hundreds of trojans in my iTunes program directory. I thought
: something had infected iTunes,
: so I uninstalled it completely. However, when I tried to reinstall it,
: AVG started finding
: "infected files" straight from the iTunes setup file. In then end, I
: gave up and switched
: from AVG to AVAST, which has no complaints.
:
: Has anyone else had this problem, or know what it's all about?
:
: Thanks,
: jc

AVG8 finds over a hundred "Trojans" in my systems-utility collection. Mind
you, Microsoft's MSRT declares that my VNC-based remote assistance applet is
a Trojan, and in this case it seems to not even be a false positive as such
but an erroneous identification of VNC as malicious software. False positives
are becoming a major problem with almost all antivirus software.

http://virustotal.com may be of help, although even here sometimes the
false-positive spans several AV products, leaving one uncertain what to make
of the report.

"smlunatick" wrote:

> On Jul 25, 2:09 am, jc <cirej...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I've been using AVG8 antivirus for months with no problems. Suddenly,
> > it started finding literally
> > hundreds of trojans in my iTunes program directory. I thought
> > something had infected iTunes,
> > so I uninstalled it completely. However, when I tried to reinstall it,
> > AVG started finding
> > "infected files" straight from the iTunes setup file. In then end, I
> > gave up and switched
> > from AVG to AVAST, which has no complaints.
> >
> > Has anyone else had this problem, or know what it's all about?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > jc
>
> It seems that AVG is at fault.
>

On Jul 29, 3:03*pm, Anteaus <Ante...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> AVG8 finds over a hundred "Trojans" in my systems-utility collection. Mind
> you, Microsoft's MSRT declares that my VNC-based remote assistance appletis
> a Trojan, and in this case it seems to not even be a false positive as such
> but an erroneous identification of VNC as malicious software. False positives
> are becoming a major problem with almost all antivirus software.
>
> http://virustotal.commay be of help, although even here sometimes the
> false-positive spans several AV *products, leaving one uncertain what to make
> of the report.
>
> "smlunatick" wrote:
> > On Jul 25, 2:09 am, jc <cirej...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > I've been using AVG8 antivirus for months with no problems. *Suddenly,
> > > it started finding literally
> > > hundreds of trojans in my iTunes program directory. *I thought
> > > something had infected iTunes,
> > > so I uninstalled it completely. However, when I tried to reinstall it,
> > > AVG started finding
> > > "infected files" straight from the iTunes setup file. *In then end,I
> > > gave up and switched
> > > from AVG to AVAST, which has no complaints.
>
> > > Has anyone else had this problem, or know what it's all about?
>
> > > Thanks,
> > > jc
>
> > It seems that AVG is at fault.

Most anti-spyware tools tend to "label" all VNCs as trojans since they
"believe" these softwares are installed silently.

Or is this an anti-competitive action by the MSRT, to prevent the use of
third-party tools? Bear in-mind that any user with automatic updates on gets
this 'pushed' to their computer. It's not as if they installed it by choice.

Whatever the reason it has a negative security impact, since it means that
automatic updates must be turned off.

"smlunatick" wrote:

> Most anti-spyware tools tend to "label" all VNCs as trojans since they
> "believe" these softwares are installed silently.

On Jul 25, 10:09*am, jc <cirej...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I've been using AVG8 antivirus for months with no problems. *Suddenly,
> it started finding literally
> hundreds of trojans in my iTunes program directory. *I thought
> something had infected iTunes,
> so I uninstalled it completely. However, when I tried to reinstall it,
> AVG started finding
> "infected files" straight from the iTunes setup file. *In then end, I
> gave up and switched
> from AVG to AVAST, which has no complaints.
>
> Has anyone else had this problem, or know what it's all about?
>
> Thanks,
> jc

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