As my AVG antivirus at 1st October 2008 updated, it keeps detect winamp (my winamp version is 5.411) as a trojan horse. Does anyone know how to solve this problem? thanks…
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Why the latest AVG detects winamp as a virus (trojan horse)?
September 30th, 2008 · 5 Comments
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5 responses so far ↓
1 Silver_bacon // Sep 30, 2008
Someone else mentioned that the latest Winamp update contained a virus…. I have not personally used winamp for several weeks. (I rarely use windows anymore… I use Linux Mint with Songbird media player.)
2 Andrew S. // Sep 30, 2008
It should update the next time that AVG issues definitions, they could have mistakenly put Winamp in as a Trojan Virus by accident.
3 G4m3r MaTT // Sep 30, 2008
It is most likely a false positive, which means sometimes the AVG virus database updates will accidently detect a program/file as a virus, when it really isn't. This happened a few days ago with a popular online game, and took a few virus definition updates until it was finally resolved.
You can report false positives to AVG and they'll work on fixing it. Also remember to update your AVG version often cause the next update might fix it.
4 rsmd49 // Sep 30, 2008
AVG support said that the correct definition should be out tomorrow. They are writing the correct code as I type…
5 Don // Sep 30, 2008
could be false positive or if winnamp updates automaticly then it have been a virus instead of a update do a online virus scan here is a list of online virus scans safety.live.com (that was microsoft’s) housecall.trendmicro.com F-secure.com sophos.com
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