AVAST GONE BESERK

[MannyMike]

Immediately following the update today (Dec 2, 2009) to the most recent
signature file (091203-0), almost everything is coming up on my computer as
infected. Looks like a bad update-- many complaints starting to show up on
the avast forums board.

 

[PajaP]

Immediately following the update today (Dec 2, 2009) to the most recent
signature file (091203-0), almost everything is coming up on my computer as
infected. Looks like a bad update-- many complaints starting to show up on
the avast forums board.

Oh dear, not Again!

 

[Duh_OZ]

WGN (Chicago) has a MP3 stream talking about people freaking out all
over LOL

http://tinyurl.com/ykk8362

It may take a while to load, but one e-mail they read had me
laughing. Seems some guy decided he is going back to McAfee. What-
ever.

 

[MannyMike]

From AVAST Site:
Issue
On Thursday 3.12. 2009 avast! had a bad false positive issue. At around 12:15 AM GMT we released VPS update 091203-0 which started flagging hundreds of innocent files as a 'Win32elf-MZG' Trojan (or, in less common cases, as 'Win32:Zbot-MKK). Among the files affected were high-profile programs produced by Adobe, Realtek, sound card drivers, various media players etc.

Solution
On Thursday 3.12. 2009 at 5:50 AM GMT, another VPS update 091203-1 was released, fixing the issue (for both 'Win32elf-MZG and Win32:Zbot-MKK). If you're still using the bad VPS 091203-0 we recommend to invoke a VPS update immediately. To restore false positive files from avast! Virus Chest please follow the instruction in the following article:

 

[The Real Truth MVP]

McAfee had the same issue.



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From AVAST Site:
Issue
15 AM GMT we released VPS update 091203-0 which started flagging hundreds
of innocent files as a 'Win32elf-MZG' Trojan (or, in less common cases, as
'Win32:Zbot-MKK). Among the files affected were high-profile programs
produced by Adobe, Realtek, sound card drivers, various media players etc.

Solution
Delf-MZG and Win32:Zbot-MKK). If
you're still using the bad VPS 091203-0 we recommend to invoke a VPS update
immediately. To restore false positive files from avast! Virus Chest please
follow the instruction in the following article:

 

[FromTheRafters]

McAfee had the same issue.

Did you mean the same, or only similar?

....I'm pretty sure that they *all* have had similar FP issues.