[WT-support] Wintest 4.2.0 flagged as Virus by AVG

Bob Wilson, N6TV n6tv at arrl.net
Mon Nov 2 22:39:39 CET 2009


Rich,

Are you running WT 4.1?  I've never seen Symantec flag 4.2, it only seems to
flag 4.1.

73,
Bob, N6TV

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Rich Hallman - N7TR <rich at n7tr.com> wrote:

>  Symantec also trips on this file….Ive set the directory to be ignored in
> scanning and real-time.  A fix would be nice….but workarounds are available.
>
>
>
> 73  Rich N7TR
>
>
>
> *From:* support-bounces at win-test.com [mailto:support-bounces at win-test.com]
> *On Behalf Of *Bob Wilson, N6TV
> *Sent:* Monday, November 02, 2009 11:38 AM
>
> *To:* support at win-test.com
> *Subject:* Re: [WT-support] Wintest 4.2.0 flagged as Virus by AVG
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 11:30 AM, G0AFH <g0afh at g0afh.com> wrote:
>
> I've just purchased WT 4.2.0. Unfortunately AVG free says it is infected
> with Win32/Themida.
>
> I'm presuming that it probably isn't infected and AVG is just flagging
> it as a false positive. Has anyone else seen this and is there a work
> around?
>
>
>
> Yes, this has been reported on this reflector many times within the past
> few weeks, and it is a false alarm.
>
> One work-around is to run wt_dev.exe from
> http://download.win-test.com/v4/nightly instead of wt.exe (which will be
> very hard to replace now if AVG has quarantined it).
>
> Others have simply chosen to uninstall AVG completely.
>
> 73,
> Bob, N6TV
>
>
>
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