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Avira false positives?

I downloaded Real player from the real player site and it says I have downloaded a TR/Dldr.Agent.bnfs' [trojan]

This has happened a few times, anyone else have issues? I am using Avira AV Premium

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  • Baldur
    Baldur Posts: 6,565 Forumite
    edited 13 April 2009 at 7:53AM
    I downloaded Real player from the real player site and it says I have downloaded a TR/Dldr.Agent.bnfs' [trojan]

    This has happened a few times, anyone else have issues? I am using Avira AV Premium
    A quick search for "TR/Dldr.Agent.bnfs' [trojan]"on the Avira support forum brings up a few hits since early April.

    <Edit> The OP in this thread specifically refers to RealPlayer11GOLD.exe
  • System
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    So I see, all in German so don't know what the score is
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  • Baldur
    Baldur Posts: 6,565 Forumite
    edited 13 April 2009 at 8:01AM
    So I see, all in German so don't know what the score is
    You can also post in English on the site.

    <Edit A Babelfish translation of the post to which I linked above, says that the poster downloaded and installed RealPlayer11GOLD.exe and was alerted that Antivir had found TR/Dldr.Agent.bnfs' [Trojan] - so he uninstalled the program & deleted the installer. A subsequent scan of his system found nothing.
  • i8change
    i8change Posts: 423 Forumite
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    I have Real Player on my other PC, just updated it yesterday. Also ran a full scan with Avira Antivir and it was clean, only the standard 1 warning that system file "C:\pagefile.sys" could not be opened/scanned. Does this on both PC's.
    I'd upload it for checking to www.virustotal.com or virusscan.jotti.org to see what other Scanners think of it.
  • aliEnRIK
    aliEnRIK Posts: 17,741 Forumite
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    i8change wrote: »
    I have Real Player on my other PC, just updated it yesterday. Also ran a full scan with Avira Antivir and it was clean, only the standard 1 warning that system file "C:\pagefile.sys" could not be opened/scanned. Does this on both PC's.
    I'd upload it for checking to www.virustotal.com or virusscan.jotti.org to see what other Scanners think of it.

    The pagefile is nothing to worry about
    :idea:
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