so avg agrees this seems to be an error in the latest update. Here is an email I got from them in reply to my reporting of this problem.
Dear Sir/Madam,
We are very sorry about the problem
Reported problem will be solved in the next update of AVG 6.0
Anti-Virus
Best regards,
Miroslav Koutny
AVG Technical Support
website:
http://www.grisoft.com
mailto:
[email protected]
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 03:48:24 -0500 you wrote:
>I downloaded the 1/21/2003 update to AVG and it found an old backup
of mIRC
>5.7 mirc32.exe to be infected with "backdoor.mard". Questioning this
I
>looked for info dealing with "backdoor.mard" and while I found no
really
>helpful info about it, I did find that its from around the summer of
2000.
>Something that old I dont see as all of a sudden getting an update
to it
>that would warrent AVG picking it up when it never has before. To
test this
>I used a common trojan finder called "The Cleaner" from
>
http://www.moosoft.com/thecleaner. It didnt find anything either. I
also
>tested this with an older version of AVG and it didnt find it
either. Seeing
>as the new update doesnt speak of adding detection of a
"backdoor.mard" and
>that "backdoor.mard" is nearing 3 years of age this testing leads me
to
>believe that this is a false positive caused by the 1/21/2003 AVG
update.
>Just to test even more so I ran the so-called infected file and
watched
>where I connected to. There was only one connection made.. and that
was to
>the server I was connecting to. This also leads me to believe that
this is a
>false positive caused by the 1/21/2003 AVG update. Then I went out
and
>downloaded a clean version of 5.7 from
>
http://mirc.stealth.net/download/oldver.html and the 1/21/2003
update also
>said it was infected with "backdoor.mard".. however an older version
of AVG
>nor did The Cleaner find anything. Again this leads me to believe
that this
>is a false positive caused by the 1/21/2003 AVG update. Im not the
only one
>to have this problem. I found this fourm tonight in which someone
speaks of
>the same problem. That fourm/thread can be found here
>
http://forums.techguy.org/t114558/s25203a227fef5477e8d94807a4a33ea3.h
tml
>
>It would be nice if you would download 5.7 from
>
http://mirc.stealth.net/download/oldver.html and test it to see if
this is a
>true infection or a false positive caused by the 1/21/2003 update.
If this
>however is a true infection I would very much like to know and know
more
>info about "backdoor.mard" as there is a security flaw on one of my
machines
>that needs to be found.
>
>
>Thank you for your time.
>