AVG False positive on MouseActivate ?

[patteo]

Has anyone encountered this AVG Threat Detected ! warning for MouseActivate

It says Virus identified Worm/Autoit.BKL

I assume it is a false warning as this program comes from none other than www.Donationcoder.com

Never had this warning before until today.

Anyway, I clicked the AVG's healed command and it says successfully healed.

[lanux128]

Anyway, I clicked the AVG's healed command and it says successfully healed.

-patteo (June 08, 2008, 03:46 AM)

yes, this is a false alarm. by healing, AVG means it has deleted/quarantined the file.

more info here: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=11859.0

[mouser]

by healing, AVG means it has deleted/quarantined the file

hahaha.. seriously though, the antivirus business is getting really sloppy and greedy, and turning into snake oils salesmen, and this is a good example of it.

instead of telling you what they really know and did, i.e. "we don't understand this file so we deleted it" they say "virus found -- file healed".  this kind of stuff is getting out of hand.  where is the antivirus for adults and computer users who don't need to be treated like children?

[cranioscopical]

this kind of stuff is getting out of hand.  where is the antivirus for adults and computer users who don't need to be treated like children?

-mouser

Have you looked beneath the shift key? 

Heard the rumour about a new AV paradigm?

Adults only!

[Lashiec]

o_O, I expected AVG to be able to distinguish between healing a file, quarantining it AND deleting the whole damn file. I wonder what made Intel think AVG was so attractive to drop $50 million in Grisoft, perhaps I'm missing something?

What it's clear is that Grisoft did not improve their ways between version 7 and version 8.