Avast Antivirus Has Gone Mad

**RACKnRAIL** · December 3rd, 2009, 07:26 AM

According to users, the application has suddenly decided to flag many safe applications, freshly-downloaded files and dlls as malicious, wreaking havoc on user systems.

It appears that the program is flagging a number of files used by entirely normal programs such as Skype, Spybot Search and Destroy and other programs incorrectly as the Win32:Delf-MZG trojan.

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I thought I had a virus last night on my laptop. I ended up uninstalling Avast. It just went off the map, flagging everything from my firewall to my soundcard driver.

**Signa** · December 3rd, 2009, 08:26 AM

So far, I've had it flag my no-cd hack for Borderlands (it stopped, thank goodness), HFS, PSPdisplay app, and I think there was something related to my Freelancer server it didn't like too, but I can't remember if I was just messing around with it while one of those other things popped up.

**mountain_rage** · December 3rd, 2009, 10:10 AM

So far my copy of Avast hasn't flagged anything. Is this an issue with all versions?

**RACKnRAIL** · December 3rd, 2009, 10:58 AM

here's the fix if anyone needs it...

http://support.avast.com/index.php?l...barticleid=376

**moneoa** · December 3rd, 2009, 11:17 AM

does not sound like a fix more than it sounds like a way to manually tell the program what is and is not a virus.

An actaul fix would be to update the software with a patch so it didnt act so damn stupid to begin with