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Dropper.Agent.JOC false positive or not ?

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by tony hopkinson 2 views

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AVG 8.0 Free (resident Sheild) on Vista Business (UAC and PM on) reported one this morning in an MS file deep within windows, while I was browsing TR. (Unconnected I feel :p )

Can't find anything either way at the moment. Two choices are cross you fingers it's a false positive, or the standard you need to buy our tool crap.

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by Former member

If anything comes up then delete it, or re-install Avg and get it to delete it (if possible) and see if your computer is ok, it seams that only AVG picks this up. A bit weird don't you think?.
More here:
http://discussions.virtualdr.com/showthread.php?t=232995

Please post back if you have any more problems or questions.

by tony hopkinson

Google gave some very useless informatuion and as yet AVG have been incredibly silent on the issue.

Time for a chnage methinks, it was a good run, but they are starting to annoy me now.

by Former member

I hope you get rid of it.
Or just download this to clear it out:
Killdisk:
http://www.killdisk.com/

Please post back if you have any more problems or questions.

by oh smeg

Try Ad aware & or Spy Bot to see if it gets removed by them in Safe Mode.

If you look at AVG Free when it is scanning it throws up Reports on Malware and so forth but as it only is Free this part of the package isn't installed so it can not remove what it finds.

I had to go through this with a customer who is panicking because AVG Free found 175 instances of stuff on his system but didn't remove them. After hitting the system with Spy Bot In Safe Mode they all disappeared.

Col

by tony hopkinson

Then see if AVG picks it up again, maybe time to move away to avast or something

by oh smeg

http://tinyurl.com/675n4y

Apparently this Trojan is to pipe Spy & Mal Ware into your system as if it actually needs any help. ;)

This is about the only site that looks Legit from a Google Search.

But with the AVG Free it scans for everything that the full product does but as it is only a AV Scanner it can not remove the Malware that it claims is on the system. More of a nuisance than anything else really. The Customer who I went through this with has been back on the phone again complaining that it's confusing him why it shows something but will not remove it. However as he is a type that must click on something just because it's there Initially I wasn't overly surprised and what is even less surprising is that he doesn't want to actually pay for anything but expects it to remove everything that is shown.

Col

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