Level Extreme platform
Subscription
Corporate profile
Products & Services
Support
Legal
Français
Trojan Horse attacking only VFP apps
Message
 
 
To
08/03/2008 06:38:51
General information
Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Other
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP2
OS:
Windows XP SP2
Network:
Windows 2003 Server
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01299715
Message ID:
01299930
Views:
14
>>>>AVG already got a fixed virus definition. Get the latest updates and it no longer sees VFP apps as Trojans.
>>>
>>>>So problem solved. Its annoying some developer far away can make my morning painful. We had 9 different clients running AVG.
>>>
>>>Thank goodness for that.
>>>
>>>I logged into my home PC this morning and was flooded with a deluge of virus declarations.
>>>
>>>Panic? Not half as much as I did when I saw that AVG had deleted a slew of files from my development repository!
>>
>>They did the same to me. Apparently the AVG virus scan was done before the automated daily check for updates. I have good backups, so no harm done, but it did give me a moment of panic.
>>
>>For lurkers, here is a current page from the AVG vendor's site with more info --
>>
>>http://forum.grisoft.cz/freeforum/read.php?4,117836,117929
>
>Mike
>
>I get message not found on that link

Hmmm, this is concerning me a bit about AVG and the vendor, Grisoft. I now get message not found as well. A couple of hours ago I found it by googling "bhvl virus". There were complaints in that thread on Grisoft's forum by one poster who said his posts were being deleted, so it appears there may be a systematic cleansing of the thread. Maybe they consider it a virus? ;-) I shouldn't actually be joking about that. What it looks like is AVG was incorrectly deleting or quarantining VFP executables (a "false positive", their moderator called it), has fixed their program, and is now trying to destroy the evidence. Not good.

UPDATE: I should mention that the posts on Grisoft's forum were dated today, March 8. (OK, OK, 8 March <g>). Early this morning was the first time AVG has flagged VFP executables on my machine as infected by viruses. For some reason most of them were quarantined (put in the vault, in AVG's vernacular) and one was deleted.
Previous
Next
Reply
Map
View

Click here to load this message in the networking platform