OT - Avast! has gone crazy - disable immediately

[Anonymous Bob]

After an update tonight the program has started deleting valid files...lots
of valid files. The thread at the link is up to 17 pages and growing
rapidly.

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r23428578-False-positive-in-Avast-or-is-it-real

I got lucky. I set updates and scans to manual a couple of weeks ago.

 

[Anonymous Bob]

Signature file 091203-0 is bad and there's an update now, 091203-1, that
fixes the problem.

 

[Anonymous Bob]

The offical word:
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=ed24b282fae3eeba02781af54566259f&topic=51647

 

[robinb]

sounds like AVG
only it turned out not to be a fp but for real
AVG over "Black Friday was tagging c:/windows system32/winlogin.exe as a
trojan
problem was it was a trojan that got into winlogin.exe
and it is a royal pain to get rid of since this file is a system file
I had 2 clients who got it
how they got it?
surfing the net looking for bargain sites
sometimes a bargain is not exactly a bargain
robin

 

[Bill Sanderson]

False positives are one of the nastier problems with anti-malware software.
Microsoft has an excellent (but not perfect by any means) record in this
regard--they fix things fast, and have had very few in objective comparative
testing. But it happens to every vendor, and probably some measure related
to this kind of occurrence should be part of anybody's rating system.