Re: likely false positive (?)

[Paul Breeze paul.breeze@xxxxxxxx]

Dear Jordan

Correction. I just tried to download the file again and Avast stopped me.
I stopped protection and then downloaded again, then scanned the zip.
The only part of the archive it objected to was BIGEDIT. I have
compared this file to the version I am already using in my VDOS version
of XY4 and the size and date are exactly the same, so it looks like a
false positive to me. The zip I have just downloaded is 4,026,176 in
size according to my file manager.
I am running XP and I use AVast version 4.7 because I found the later
versions too irritating. It seems to work just as well but is less wizzy.

I don't know if any of this helps.

Best wishes

Paul


On 30/01/2015 17:08, J R FOX wrote:
The more immediate issue seems to be getting a download of the archive
that is not corrupt. This happened not only on the desktop rig that I
mentioned (which has both Avast and Malwarebytes on it), but on a brand
new one that just has MS Security Essentials. In both cases, neither
PKZip, 7-Zip, nor WinRar could could open the XyWeb120 archive. Can you
open yours ?

There have been times where either Avast or MBam munged downloads they
objected to. The result is typically a truncated file. My download of
120 ran a shade over 4 Mb. Editing their site or file whitelists
generally cured this. As an experiment, I'm going to download the file
again using an older laptop that runs XP and has *no* AV on it any
longer, or if necessary also a laptop that runs eCS and has no AV
program. Should I keep getting the same result, something is indeed
wrong here.

Of course, if Carl is close to releasing a revised U2 collection, this
may all soon be moot.


  Jordan

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  *From:* Paul Breeze 
  *To:* xywrite@xxxxxxxx
  *Sent:* Friday, January 30, 2015 2:55 AM
  *Subject:* Re: likely false positive (?)

  Dear Jordan

  I use Avast and it didn't blink when I downloaded XYweb120.

  Maybe it is possible to be TOO cautious?

  Best wishes

  Paul



  On 30/01/2015 04:25, J R FOX wrote:
   > Here is the VirusTotal scan on XyWeb120, which I had to download
   > elsewhere. I probably can't even open the archive on this system,
   > without first disabling Avast! AV. There seem to be 4 or 5 out
  of the
   > 57 AV products in agreement on this, but I'm still kind of skeptical.
   >
   > Does anyone know if MS Security Essentials is any good ? (Win
  Defender
   > does not have all that good a reputation.)
   >
   > btw, I did run Winprint from the Japanese Sourceforge through
  this, and
   > it was not flagged.
   >
   >
   >
   >  Jordan
   >