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JorgeO.555 View Member Profile	Aug 19 2008, 12:36 PM Post #1
New Member Group: Members Posts: 1 Joined: 19-August 08 Member No.: 231,351	Hello, my first post. Nice forum! AVG is spoken about in the WEB as giving lots of false positives. There are sites in the WEB that provide a scan service with about one dz of anti-virus programs, so one can take an educated decision concerning a suspicious file. But, once AVG decides a file is malware it won't let one upload it! Any way out of it? Thanks for your help.

quietman7 View Member Profile	Aug 19 2008, 01:19 PM Post #2
Bleepin' Janitor Group: Global Moderator Posts: 13,432 Joined: 9-July 05 From: Virginia, USA Member No.: 26,513	Welcome to BC JorgeO.555 QUOTE In case AVG Free detects some file on your PC as infected, this file was moved to AVG Virus Vault, and you are sure that this file is correct and clean, it is possible that the detected file is a false alarm. If so, we shall prepare the correction as soon as possible. Unfortunately, false alarms do appear from time to time in every Anti-Virus software. To solve the problem, please send us this file for analysis directly from the AVG Free program... AVG FAQ 1320: AVG detects infection on file that I suppose to be clean -------------------- "THE BAD GUYS DON'T NEED A SEARCH WARRANT. ARE YOU PROTECTED?" Microsoft MVP - Windows Security 2007-2008

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