Avast reports trojan found in JA's Doch exe

[Dr.Wael Deeb]

Come to think of it - I run AVAST and I did not have any issues with Doch.

I didn't either until today's updated file.

Same here,with the latest Avast! Professional update last night....it stopped the Arena running a tournament with the stupid Trojan horse alarm....I'd say it found a Trojan donkey rather than a horse
Dr.D

[Jim Ablett]

You should be able to add an exclusion to Avast without resorting to full antivirus replacement.
Read here > http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=38833.0

Jim.

[Le Fou numerique]

After the latest Avast update, I all of a sudden have this issue. It won't let either of my gauntlets involving Doch resume. How do I overcome this problem (assuming it's a false positive)?

Cheers,
Graham.

Hi Graham,

I have the same alert this morning, Doch 09.980 on the Quad (Vista)
but also Philou 3.0.0 on the PIV (XP)

It's the first time I had these alerts since the update of these engines. I had many games with both engines.

The problem seems in the last Avast update.

Regards,
Patrick

[bob]

After the latest Avast update, I all of a sudden have this issue. It won't let either of my gauntlets involving Doch resume. How do I overcome this problem (assuming it's a false positive)?

Cheers,
Graham.

Have you scanned with another program.
Maybe you could contract the Avast people.

I use Avast also. I will download Doch and see if i get the same
results.

Best.
Gerold

P.S. Ok Graham got the same thing. Trojan..

If you know how these things work, this is a "guaranteed to occur event". These programs look for specific patterns in the executables. And since there are not an infinite number of patterns in any program, occasionally a perfectly benign program will contain a pattern that matches a new virus and BOOM.

Best bet is to inform the AV software source and tell them "If your software can't deal with this correctly, I am going to have to switch to another AV software package. They can solve the problem easily enough in their AV signature database, they just need prodding.

[Dr.Wael Deeb]

After the latest Avast update, I all of a sudden have this issue. It won't let either of my gauntlets involving Doch resume. How do I overcome this problem (assuming it's a false positive)?

Cheers,
Graham.

Have you scanned with another program.
Maybe you could contract the Avast people.

I use Avast also. I will download Doch and see if i get the same
results.

Best.
Gerold

P.S. Ok Graham got the same thing. Trojan..

If you know how these things work, this is a "guaranteed to occur event". These programs look for specific patterns in the executables. And since there are not an infinite number of patterns in any program, occasionally a perfectly benign program will contain a pattern that matches a new virus and BOOM.

Best bet is to inform the AV software source and tell them "If your software can't deal with this correctly, I am going to have to switch to another AV software package. They can solve the problem easily enough in their AV signature database, they just need prodding.

I've already did this Bob around 12 hours ago and before half an hour a new version of the program has been installed automaticaly on my pc....it seems that they've solved the glitch
Dr.D

[Spock]

I just got the latest update, and ran Doch, and it runs just fine

[Dr.Wael Deeb]

Program: Updated
(previous version: 4.8.1335, updated version: 4.8.1368)
- Vps: Already up to date
(current version 091203-1)
- Setup: Updated
(previous version: 4.8.1335, updated version: 4.8.1368)

This is the latest and complete update....
Dr.D

[bob]

Program: Updated
(previous version: 4.8.1335, updated version: 4.8.1368)
- Vps: Already up to date
(current version 091203-1)
- Setup: Updated
(previous version: 4.8.1335, updated version: 4.8.1368)

This is the latest and complete update....
Dr.D

This is a predictable problem. They don't want to put a complete copy of a virus program in the database. First, the database would become huge, and it would take forever to do a virus scan. Second, any tiny change in the virus and it would not be recognized. They try to pick some unique signature and use that.

We have a group here that works with Microsoft and the antivirus software developers around the world, working on just this kind of problem. UAB has the single largest virus/SPAM/etc database around. Our computer forensics group is working with vendors and the FBI and are slowly making progress on putting people behind bars for some of these bot-net attacks and spam/phishing stuff... They bought a cluster so that they could do extensive data mining to discover relationships between apparently unrelated attacks to get back to the source.