Avira Free and combofix Today

chunter

Using the older version of Avira Free.
For the first time ever it's complaining about a virus in combofix.
Anybody else getting this?

It's the standard Combofix download off Bleeping computer.

waddler_8

It's a false positive. Avast shouldn't be running when using Combofix.

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/combofix/how-to-use-combofix

Close or disable all running Antivirus, Antispyware, and Firewall programs as they may interfere with the proper running of ComboFix.

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic273628.html

GunJack

I vaguely remember something along those lines, but I've mixed'n'matched between the latest versions of avira and avast for a while now........come to think of it, it was avast's auto-sandbox feature (in it's earliest days) which was flagging CF files during download, which was quite bizzare ...... also if you forget to turn off the av before running CF...

chunter

waddler_8 wrote: »

It's a false positive. Avast shouldn't be running when using Combofixl

Not evening running it. Simply downloading it.