AVG's False Positives Annoy Me

[Telera]

I'm starting to think AVG likes to give me false positives.

A few days ago, I did a scan, and it was telling me that part of Phantasy Star Online: Blue Burst's programs was a Trojan. Yeah. Phantasy Star. Is a Trojan. 'Generic12.BIDJ' to be exact.

Whatever, I never play it, so I had it cure it and uninstalled the game, cuz it wasn't worth the effort to listen to AVG cry until someone cued them in on the fact that it isn't, indeed, out to rape my computer's face.

Today, it's telling me some part of my System Restore Information is the same Trojan. This is something I'm afraid to fuck with/remove. It's done this in the past, the back up is still in the vault. The problem is that I didn't notice the pop up from AVG saying it'd found it until right before it vanished, and now on a scan, it isn't popping up again. Though a look at the event history log says it's tried to warn me twice. Edit: It's the damn back up of PSO in the restore. I swear, it thinks Sega is out to get me. -_-;

And a few months back, some of my files in my HP folder were also Trojans, don't ya know. I Googled the .exe and it is a legit part of HP's printer drivers. I kept back ups in the vault just in case, but seriously. Annoying.

It also caught a Morrowind mod (not for me, for someone else) as a massive computer worm, and no one else's AV program detected a thing, and in fact, it was clean.

Point of topic: Is Avast a better program than AVG these days? More reliable, etc? How do I find out for sure if it is a false positive, and not a masquerading trojan?

[TheGrandMom]

Re: AVG's False Positives Annoy Me

Ya I'm not a huge fan either. I had a trojan on one of my computers and it didn't even find it. Found out later it replicated itself and there were 168 infected files that it didn't find. Always use a combination of virus protection and adware programs, thats how I do it now.

[Efgt]

Re: AVG's False Positives Annoy Me

Today, it's telling me some part of my System Restore Information is the same Trojan. This is something I'm afraid to fuck with/remove. It's done this in the past, the back up is still in the vault. The problem is that I didn't notice the pop up from AVG saying it'd found it until right before it vanished, and now on a scan, it isn't popping up again. Though a look at the event history log says it's tried to warn me twice. Edit: It's the damn back up of PSO in the restore. I swear, it thinks Sega is out to get me. -_-;

System Restore is a common place virus like to hide or make back-up copies of its self at. If you use system restore often I would suggest a 3rd Party program RollBack RX or *shutters* Norton Ghost. But disabling windows system restore is something I would do either way. Best of luck to ya

[Balfree]

Re: AVG's False Positives Annoy Me

Spybot Search and Destroy > Everything

[Telera]

Re: AVG's False Positives Annoy Me

Spybot Search and Destroy > Everything

I use this in tandem with AVG. That's the reason I'm annoyed. SSD isn't flagging these files as anything dangerous, deadly, or face-raping. Yes, I know the SRV is a very popular place to stick a virus, but on poking in there and manually scanning the file AVG has been crying about for days (it was, indeed, the PSOBB launcher. The backup after I deleted it.) I scanned it with SSD and surprise, surprise, nothing there. Normal file, no threat.

But just so AVG would shut the fuck up I let it delete it. Cuz I have no intention of reinstalling PSOBB anyway.

In any case, I've only used the System Restore ... like... once a few years ago. I haven't totally disabled it because I lack system discs atm, but when I get a DVD-W drive in a few weeks, I probably will do. Make System Discs, and just keep my nice stories on discs/Flashes and go from there.

But I scan bi-weekly and download next to nothing except Morrowind mods. I also keep an eye on processes/registry/etc. There's nothing in here that shouldn't be, it's a bunch of idiotic FP nonsense.