AVG gives false positive on Avimator installer..

Was just informed by my virus scanner that the trojan Zlob.DJW is present in the avimator downloaded file Avimator-0.4.1.exe

My virus scanner just updated itself about 15 mins ago, I can only guess this is one of it's new definitions.

Heads up.. now I gotta clean it out :/.

It's likely to be a false positive. Have you considered compiling from source, if you can?

Nay, I'm not going to spend that amount of mental resources on it. Since the free poser 5 was offered, I've gotten that to replace my creaky old ver. 4 (which has become lost in a mountain of disks.. the reason I thought to check out avimator in the first place), and I'm done with it .

Thanks for the idea though, if circumstances were different it would have been quite useful, and others may find it so.

I got Poser5 few months back (grrrr I actually paid for it.) I still use avimator more often. Yeah its missing few features but for most part I find it easier to use when making SL animations. So for many its still usefull

I used the Nullsoft Installer (NSIS) to create the setup program for Avimator. Unfortunately, AVG Anti-Virus and Avast identify a lot of NSIS-based applications as trojans. This is due to poor detection on the part of both of these products. I can assure you that Avimator is not going to erase your hard drive or steal all your passwords!

Oh I'm sure it wouldn't . It was AVG that detected it btw, so that is likely the case. I just wanted to put out the heads up, as one can never be too careful nowdays. I certainly didn't mean the warning as a slight to the software at all, I just got a bit excited because I'm pretty well buttoned down over here, and almost never see alarms go off (think this is the 2nd in 2 years)... then again, for the past 5+ years other than the last couple of months I've used Linux more than Win-duhs .

Can a mod edit the title to reflect that it is a false positive please? I tried but it just added another title connected to the first post ><. Thanks!

Second on it most likely being a false positive. The easiest thing to do would be to take its md5sum and submit it to a few virus databases (aka. Google) and see what comes up.

These things aren't perfect. At one point, a few of my scanners were detecting the Second Life update as a virus. That was fun.

The fun part is, many would agree with this kind of assessment as being quite accurate. Seeing how much stuff can break with each update -.^;

i just got that yestaday how do i check if i have that trojan now?
and how can i remove it?

Resmods can't edit a thread directly but it's possible to rename a thread when moving it, so I did a little juggling and got it done that way. I won't do it for just any thread but I didn't want to leave it as it was and risk a lot of people freaking out for no reason.

Glad it's a false alarm!

Thank you Elle .

ashlyn, please read more than just the first post and you will see that it turned out to be a false alarm.