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AVG tags ZoneAlarm as Trojan

by Marianna Schmudlach Oct 16, 2008 2:24AM PDT

AV software meets firewall, has meltdown

By John Leyden
16th October 2008

A dodgy anti-virus update from AVG wrongly flagged up the popular ZoneAlarm firewall as a Trojan on Tuesday.

The mis-firing AVG definition file tagged components of ZoneAlarm as infected with the Agent_r.CX Trojan horse and quarantined important files. As a result users running the popular antivirus package alongside security suite software from Check Point were left with a malfunctioning firewall, mystery infection reports and an inability to re-install their ZoneAlarm software.

The problem cropped up on ZoneAlarm support forums and persisted into the early hours of Tuesday morning, before AVG issued an update that fixed the false alarm. Prior to that Zone Alarm users hit with the issue were able to get around the problem only if they knew how to add the directory path for Zone Alarm as an exception to anti-virus scans.

More: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/16/avg_zonealarm_trojan_false_alarm/

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The Following Day Update Corrected Previos Update

by islandporgy Oct 16, 2008 11:15AM PDT

Did not have to wait that long for the correction. Quick work from AVG.
Wendell H

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