I've got a computer that's running AVG (it's a friends computer) and after downloading the Microsoft Office 365 installer from Office.com (which is where you have to log in and download) it now identifies it as a trojan. This is a clean install with just AVG and Windows with drivers. I'm starting to wonder if perhaps since the AVG install is 6 months old (we restored it from a clean disc image that was made 6 months ago) that the definitions weren't up to date, and thus weren't able to identify the current Office 365 installer as being OK, but rather labelled it as a virus because it wasn't in its definitions database? But even then so, I'd assume that it would able to determine who it came from (Microsoft) as Office 365 has been out for quite some time, unless MS changes its digital signatures when the update the installers? I'm about 80% sure this has to be a false positive and is a result of AVG or the old outdate defintions. I just was curious if anyone has run into this with AVG? It seems that it has caused problems with some games, particulary ones from Steam....
Is this a false positive? ESET on my computer (along with another computer running Norton Anti-Virus) doesn't pick it up as a virus. I'm wondering if because the Office 365 installer sends and receives data from a remote server, if AVG thinks that this is malware/virus activity.
Has anyone else run into this with AVG? From basic Googling, it looks like false-positives like this are common with AVG. I would have expected that my machine running ESET would have picked up anything as it's very good at detecting pretty much everything, even things embedded in zip files 6 layers deep, etc, and I have ESET set on a very aggressive scanning/cleaning settings.
Is this a false positive? ESET on my computer (along with another computer running Norton Anti-Virus) doesn't pick it up as a virus. I'm wondering if because the Office 365 installer sends and receives data from a remote server, if AVG thinks that this is malware/virus activity.
Has anyone else run into this with AVG? From basic Googling, it looks like false-positives like this are common with AVG. I would have expected that my machine running ESET would have picked up anything as it's very good at detecting pretty much everything, even things embedded in zip files 6 layers deep, etc, and I have ESET set on a very aggressive scanning/cleaning settings.