A recent AVG signature file update is incorrectly identifying iTunes/iPod files as viruses, as reported by forum users on the Apple website.The AVG Virus scanner identifies all iTunes/iPod related files as the 'Small.BOG' trojan - a trojan which does not seem to exist, as revealed by a quick Google search. The update, which is unidentified, but confirmed to be a false positive, is removing all files, and deleting them. Once these files have been "cleaned", iTunes will not run, and is not fixable by a reinstall.
A fix has been pushed by AVG in the latest signature update - but users may need to reinstall iTunes. A fix can be found here on the Apple Forums.
AVG is a free/paid antivirus solution offered by AVG Technologies, and is renowned for its' high virus detection rate, and is currently rated 4th in Neowin's "Definitive Best Antivirus 2009" poll on our forums.
iTunes has also been in the news lately due to Apple deciding to remove the Palm Pre's ability to sync like an iPod, by pushing an update which prevented iTunes from synchronizing with devices that falsely identify themselves as an iPod. Palm has updated WebOS to utilize a new way of spoofing the Pre's identity.
But it *can* do everything else
This.
Yet iTunes can do all three of the things you mentioned, so how is it lacking those things?
this is correct. end of thread. goodbye.
lol
+1
Thanks - fixed
Your welcome
itunes also cures cancer, and in some instances WebOS has been known to offer information similar but not substantial to the original topic.
because the article was completely about how itunes was a virus and how palm pre circumvented a plug in a non-virus update. thanks, very useful commentary.
Little known fact: It's actually the uninstaller that can cure cancer.
you have a proof that apple has not added some nasty code there?
"but confirmed to be a false positive"
Read the article.
and your positive that antivirus solutions would have prevented that somehow?
AV solutions generally push people to being more relax about security and thus actually increasing infections a lot. There is no definite solution to all this, you just have to educate people and hope theyre more sensible.
But as in the real world scenario, you will never get a %100 ratio, so we'll all be stuck with this.
I have proof this is the dumbest post I've read all day.
The number of false positives over the years it has had, and not only just once, after updates; THEY KEPT COMING BACK!
Anything made by multimedia fusion 1.5 and 2.0, install creator, patch maker, loads of general purpose things too.
URGH I HATE ANYONE THAT EVER USES AVG, THEY SHOULD NOT EVEN HAVE A COMPUTER! GET CLAM-AV!
The number of false positives over the years it has had, and not only just once, after updates; THEY KEPT COMING BACK!
Anything made by multimedia fusion 1.5 and 2.0, install creator, patch maker, loads of general purpose things too.
URGH I HATE ANYONE THAT EVER USES AVG, THEY SHOULD NOT EVEN HAVE A COMPUTER! GET CLAM-AV!
Clam AV has very poor definitions, it's not real time and it's just pretty crap generally. AVG may not be as good as it used to be but it will always be better than ClamWin
The number of false positives over the years it has had, and not only just once, after updates; THEY KEPT COMING BACK!
Anything made by multimedia fusion 1.5 and 2.0, install creator, patch maker, loads of general purpose things too.
URGH I HATE ANYONE THAT EVER USES AVG, THEY SHOULD NOT EVEN HAVE A COMPUTER! GET CLAM-AV!
I tend to agree. AVG has the worst luck with false positives.
Also, I used to use AVG a few years ago, with Clickteam's products as you listed up there. Didn't run into any false positives. Actually it was and still is Avira who incorrectly flagged a few Install Maker executables.
Also, I used to use AVG a few years ago, with Clickteam's products as you listed up there. Didn't run into any false positives. Actually it was and still is Avira who incorrectly flagged a few Install Maker executables.
I used to use AVG personally, but when version 8 landed, I jumped off the band-wagon. It was crap. I switched to NOD32 for a year (after winning it), and it is by far the best. After my sub ran out, I started using Microsoft Security Essentials, which is up there with NOD32
Yep for a while after 8.0 came out I was impressed with the performance and the UI of version 8. So was installing it instead of avast. Then AVG had that false positives were it would delete windows system files and make the system no longer boot. I'm lucky I didn't get any calls about that. But I could have potentially got'n 40+ broken computer. I went back to avast and will never use AVG again.
Version 7 was nice and light, I found. Unfortunately, the initial release of version 8 forced the installation of the web filter, which if I recall correctly caused a few problems.
For the time being, I find the most recent build of the free version of avast! to be the lightest on system resources.
Glad i'm using NOD32. Never had a false positive. *touches wood* hehe
Glad i'm using NOD32. Never had a false positive. *touches wood* hehe
For me, it's NOT32. I dumped it since I had a false positive for an application which contained some common Visual Basic code to check for updates.
I guess there are better alternatives, like Avira or Avast.
But I digress...what happened with AVG's false positive is nothing compared to what happened two weeks ago with eTrust antivirus: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10283199-83.html
In other words, I'm pretty certain every antivirus program has generated false positives.
How weird, i scanned the latest lvlord patch with the latest version of Avira and it wasn't detected as a trojan. Did you changed the heuristic level?
I thought AVG was supposed to be good - so I read on the forums here.
currently trying out morro beta...
For details of how to fix the problem, please see http://www.avg.com.au/index.cfm?section=su...amp;feature=179
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