by: FarBeyondTheSun February 23, 2011 2:21 AM PST
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False positive?
by MarkFlax 
- 2/23/11 5:00 AM
In Reply to: Macrium Reflect - Malware - Surely Not! by FarBeyondTheSun
Hi Ben.
Which one did you download? I found two;
Macrium Reflect Free 4.2 build 3141 or
Macrium Reflect 4.2 build 3141.
This 'may be' a false positive. Anti-virus scanners do this sometimes, all of them. It may be that the AVs incorrectly see some process or other as a threat where no such threat exists.
Download.com always checks the software they offer for malware anyway, but you could send a report to AVG to ask them to check this. The details for that are here;
http://www.avg.com/us-en/faq.num-2343
Scroll down to the "AVG detects infection on file that I suppose to be clean" link.
Unfortunately I can't suggest uploading this file to either Jotti's Virusscan or Virus Total's web sites as they both impose a 20MB limit on uploaded files, and this file is over 30MB.
Alternatively, ask in CNET's AVG Forum.
Good luck.
Mark
Mark
by FarBeyondTheSun - 2/23/11 5:32 AM
In Reply to: False positive? by MarkFlax
It was Macrium Reflect Free 4.2 build 3141
- And thanks, I should have thought to post in the AVG forum. I'll follow the link and maybe post there if need be.
Cheers.
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