AVG false positive on legitimate applications causes trouble

[leofelix]

"Many AVG users are now asking help in forum on why they could not run legitimate applications such as Firefox, Microsoft Word, CCleaner, Malwarebytes' Anti-malware etc. Other users has reported to receive a dialog box that the executable of the program that they are trying to open is is not a valid Win32 application. While some are getting that a .dll file is missing......

AVG has deleted a lot of legitimate files by legitimate applications including Windows Update file wuauclt.exe by Microsoft and even the AVG executables avgcmgr8.exe"

 

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[demitris]

hi leofelix

 

I am a user of AVG 8.5 free and fortunately i didn't run the program these days.

 

thanks for the announcement

[leofelix]

You're welcome dimitris,

however AVG has fixed this issue with an urgent data base definition update

 

cheers