Registry keys vulnerable found in AVG 8.0

[drragostea]

After completing a full scan with AVG 8.0 Free, more than a dozen registry came up. However... the threat counter was at zero. In the results screen, I look up the dozen of registry keys. In the details tab, it told me that it was a potentially dangerous object.

HKLM/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Internet Explorer/ActiveX Compatibility/-{00000001-C003-4A2F-9142-7CB1D78DE6C1}

Result/Infection: Found Adware.InternetOptimizer

Note: The forward slashes in the result are backslashes. I had to type it manually because I could not copy and paste.

Another one I found was: Adware.Generic
HKLM/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Internet Explorer/ActiveX Compatibility/-{FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF}

Any help would be appreciated. Btw. I just left the results intact. Closed the results window.

[drragostea]

It appears that if I removed it to the Virus Vault, SpywareBlaster's IE counter would have 190 disabled. Spybot-SD would have 30 in it's IE plug-in unimmunized.

[ght1]

Is there an automatic update from avg 7.5 to avg 8.0?

[drragostea]

You never knew that. AVG 8.0 Free released 4/23.

Edit: You'll have to download from the site manually because AVG 7.5 does not offer the upgrade via-updates.

[ght1]

I installed AVG 8.0 Free a few hours ago, i love the graphical user interface AVG detected 0 spyware/viruses.

[drragostea]

@tpro1... did it detect the registry keys? This thread is not about... user GUIs and AVG. It's about the registry keys.

[ght1]

The last key was detected and deleted

Edit: But i never use internet explorer hm ... maybe a false positive?

[drragostea]

Erm. The last key... erm. Well from how I see it, the registry key might enable IE to get a "infection" through ActiveX/Flash. Did your results have a several dozen of registry keys?

>Once I moved them to the Virus Vault... SpywareBlaster and Spybot-SD both have some items unimmunized.
Btw. It couldn't be a false positive. Read my first post.

[drragostea]

Bump. A Spybot-SD Advisor/Team member may look into this.

[Greyfox]

drragostea

As I indicated in the other posting, mine is a very similar experience. Some 90 Adware (generic & specific) items were detected during the AVG v8 registry scan. All HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Active X Compatability\{... very long number...}, Currently they are quarantined with the result that 30 plugins (IE) are now shown as unprotected.

Castle Cops list sever of these that I specifically checked as Adware.

Will do some more testing in this area, but it does seem to be some sort of problem between Spybot Immunisation and AVG v8 registry scan.