Avira Antivirus detects itself as Malware | False Virus Definition File

[illumination]

Avira Antivirus labeled itself as Spyware. Avira detects AESCRIPT.DLL(one of Avira dll file) as "TR/Spy.463227". Recent Virus Definition File(VDF version 7.11.16.146 ) Update of Avira mistakenly includes AESCRIPT.DLL Library file as one of Spyware. This results in avira detects itself as spyware. After they...Read More

 

[jamescv7]

It would be scary a bit for Avira users especially the warning sound that may shocked that it detect a virus.

 

[Ink]

This happened to CA as well about 2 years ago.

Avira were aware of this and posted:
http://forum.avira.com/wbb/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=137969

 

[WinAndLinuxTutorials]

lol, that's funny

 

[malbky]

It would have jolted users faith in avira. Considering the fact that after the facebook giveaway there would be many avira users. But the worst was mcafee which totally prevented xp from working by flagging svchost as trojan and quarantining it.

 

[imsoadude]

Lol i knew they had a lot of false positives, but to detect themselves? not good for them, but at lease they fixed it and announced it to the users

 

[AyeAyeCaptain]

LOL I would say that this has shocked me, but sadly it has not... my faith in Avira was lost a long time ago, read somewhere that they are heading back on track though. But it's gonna take lot for me to even test it, I remember the days when Avast, AVG, Avira were top ones... (well at least from my point of view) but now I can only say Avast out of them are good enough. FP of itself is just too funny, how would it go about deleting itself? haha assume it would mess something up being a dll...

 

[jamescv7]

For Avira it isn't new to have a lot of FP issues but at least not the system critical Windows file that was happened before to Mcafee. Caused it will be a really nightmare to anyone and could lost more users to use Avira.