Conflict with avast antivirus, read first!
I'm not affiliated with Safer-Networking nor Avast but am a customer of both. I believe Avast really screwed the pooch on this one... As of 12/03/09 CST, Avast Antivirus Database Update (VPS: 091203-0, 12/03/2009), is FUBAR. You would think Avast would have been a bit more proactive on rolling out updates.. It seems this update to the virus database for Avast Antivirus, is labeling everything related to Spybot, as a trojan (Win32:Delf-MZG). I've had 5 files labeled and the number is still growing... (VOL_TO~1.DLL, teatimer.exe, advcheck.dll, SDHELPER.DLL and SpybotSD.exe) I've also been seeing threads popping up on other forums, that it's also labeling system files as being infected as well. In turn some users are quarantining and deleting these files, which in turn are causing there systems to crash, hang and fail. For the meantime I would suggest not deleting any of the files that are legitimate resource files for Spybot or other programs you know to be safe, ESPECIALLY system files.. Safer Networking, you guys need to jump on board and start issuing statements before you start losing customers, as 95% of the alerts, are targeting spybot resource files and executables as trojans. I've also opened a ticket with Avast who is NOT being proactive in publicly adressing this...
What were they thinking..
Man, this could have gotten out of hand, real fast. Except for the 5% of users who were quarantining and deleting system files, which started to grow to 10%, 95% of the false positives were specifically targeting Spybot. What were they thinking?
