RoadRunner Updater detected as a Virus!

carlnunes · 10-17-2006, 12:36 AM

AVG is detecting RR_Updater.exe as a virus! Anyone got any input on this?
Here's a screen shot

DarquePervert · 10-17-2006, 12:42 AM

Turn off heuiristic detection.
It's not a virus, but a false positive.

This has been brought up here before. search the forums.

liquid_smoke · 10-17-2006, 12:54 AM

strength in numbers

Its not a virus.
I just started getting it detected by AVG today also, must of been something they added to the last update. AutoIT scripts get false positives from virus engines all the time.
I think it has something to do with how the script is compiled, if you compile it with options or not.
I can take the same scripts and compile it with and without options and the one with options allways gets detected as a virus.

W3bMa5t3r · 10-17-2006, 01:08 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by DarquePervert

Turn off heuiristic detection.
It's not a virus, but a false positive.

This has been brought up here before. search the forums.

Thanks DP... lol guess I was a bit late getting in here to see what was going on. Cheers.

/edit ... on a side note. I think the old discussion about this not being a virus was in the thread for the September release of roadrunner, and I think Guino deleted it... or else I'm not finding it... :-\ but anyways... yeah, no virus

I use AVG on my machine, and is updated as soon as the updates are available, and scanned before uploading as well

/edit #2 ... found one thread

http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/road-runner/86592-trojan-pws-tanspy-rr-install.html