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PepiMK
2009-12-03, 18:40
With Avast Antivirus Database Update (VPS: 091203-0, 12/03/2009) it detects our software Spybot-S&D and some of it's files as a trojan (Win32:Delf-MZG).

This is a false positive and it has already been fixed by Avast. Please update your Avast from the previous version which has the issue: 091203-0, to the updated fix: 091203-1. Then update the program itself, from version: 4.8.1356, to the updated version: 4.8.1368. Restart your computer. That should fix it.

This has also been discussed in our forum (http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?p=349888#post349888) and in the Avast forum (http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=51647.msg436938#msg436938).

This is how to get your Spybot-S&D back, if you have deleted any files with Avast:

Please uninstall Spybot-S&D according to the following link (http://www.safer-networking.org/en/howto/uninstall.html). Then download a fresh copy of Spybot-S&D 1.6.2 here (http://www.spybotupdates.com/files/spybotsd162.exe).



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