#HTML FRAMER AVG FALSE POSITIVE SOFTWARE#
I can tell you what is going on in the minds of the AVG guys when they add your software as "spyware". Many thanks (" ) Octo4:57 PM Irreligious said. Perhaps it was already in the planning? I've blogged about it on my Opera blog here, and I shall do like wise at the Opera community forums, if I've not already been beaten me to it. I wrote asking if such a untility was possible but never expected to see it so soon. But I really came to say a big THANK YOU Nir for OperaCacheView. Never troubles me over legitimate software such as yours. Most people that get this kind of error, think that there is a bug in my software, and don't know that the Antivirus is the one that cause the problem.Īvast anti virus (the Home version is free), makes far fewer false positives in my view. You may not have the appropriate permission to access the item". "Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. This mean that if you try to run one of my tools that are detected as Spyware/Virus while AVG application is not running, you'll get the following error message: When you exit from the Antivirus software, it won't display any Virus/Trojan/Spyware warning, but the service of the Antivirus is still running in the background, and prohibits you from running any file that is detected as infected. So here's the AVG "False Positive" list, the Spyware section:Ĭ:\Utils\netpass_setup.exe:\ziz1384.tmp:\netpass.exeĬ:\Utils\sniffpass_setup.exe:\SniffPass.exeĬ:\Utils\sniffpass_setup.exe:\ziz1384.tmp:\SniffPass.exeĬ:\Utils\vncpassview.zip:\VNCPassView.exeĬ:\Utils\lsasecretsdump.zip:\LSASecretsDump.exeĪnd finally, here's another issue with AVG and other Antivirus software: Luckily, SysExporter is not detected as infection by AVG, otherwise, it wouldn't allow me to run and use it. I really would want to understand what is going in the minds of AVG guys when they decided to detect my software as Spyware.Īnyway, I used my own SysExporter utility to grab the scan result from AVG and display it as HTML. Most of the alerts on my utilities folder appeared under the 'Spyware' section. So I decided to check the current status of AVG false positives, by scanning the utilities folder of my site.įirst, I copied the utils folder of my site into a new place (I don't really want that AVG will touch my original site folder.), and then I allowed AVG Antivirus to scan the folder.Īfter AVG finished the scan, it splited the scan result into 2 categories: Infections and Spyware. For example, two days ago Kaspersky's antivirus products erroneously blocked access to bbc.co.uk for allegedly being a phishing website.Messages like "You have a Virus in your software" are received into my Inbox on daily basis, and a lots of them comes from AVG Antivirus. According to him the HTML/Framer is a real infection with many variants, that could very well affect other websites.Īntivirus false positives incidents are quite common, but they can be dangerous when they involve system files and leave tens of thousands of computers unusable. The AVG representative also advised users that the false positive is restricted to those files only.
#HTML FRAMER AVG FALSE POSITIVE UPDATE#
Please update AVG virus database and check the websites once again. “ Hello all, please be informed that false positive detection "HTML/Framer" (BrowserCompAp.js) was already fixed with latest virus database update 271.1.1/3006 released 6:44 AM CEST. The problem was later confirmed by an AVG staffer named Ondra Ploteny, who announced on the forum that issue has been resolved and advised users to update to a new version of the definitions. Users reported that the bogus alerts stopped after uninstalling this toolbar. The false positive was apparently being triggered through the toolbar installed by AVG in browsers like IE or Firefox. Other reports on AVG's own forums, where a topic related to the incident already has six pages, claim that the recaptcha.js and BrowserCompAp.js were also tagged as malicious. However, this doesn't seem to be the only reCAPTCHA file for which the bogus detection was triggered. “ I just installed AVG on my laptop and am now getting an error message that a virus was found: is infected with the HTML/Framer Has anyone else received this error message?,” a user wrote on the Google Web Search help forums. The problems started yesterday with users reporting seeing the alert on websites like Yahoo! Mail,, Craigslist or while playing the Mafia Wars Facebook game. The false positive incident prevented AVG from accessing popular websites. A buggy detection routine caused antivirus products from AVG to improperly tag a script from Google's reCAPTCHA as being infected with a threat called HTML/Framer.
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