every jpg I scan shows EBlaster under heuristics

[azrael2000]

Hi All.

I have something very strange going on, and want to confirm I don't have spyware or a virus.

When I started my computer this morning, I showed what looked like a spybot alert for the csrss.exe. I did some research and found that this is part of windows and ok. apparently crss.exe is the villain that plays around.

So I did a scan with spybot, fixed 2 troubles, and now I don't get the popup anymore. Great!



However, I realized that I had not integrated spybot so I could right-click / scan. I reinstalled the program, activating this feature, and after updating and immunizing, I figured I would give the feature a test. I picked a wallpaper that I have been using for a dog's age, and it passes the malware test, but the heuristics scan says "EBlaster".

I tested the .zip file the item is housed in, and both the malware and heuristic pass.

I have scanned my drive (Entire Computer) for virus' etc with AVG Free, and it passes ok...

Does anyone know why this would happen? Is this happening to anyone else?

Regards

[Yodama]

hello,

this is a false positive with the heuristics part of the single file scanner as reported in this thread

corrections will be released with the detection update scheduled for 2009-05-06