Avast! "A virus was found!"

BigJohnD · Post by **BigJohnD** » Sun Sep 27, 2009 10:22 pm

Avast! has report a virus in "C:\Program Files\Folding@home\Folding@home-x86\work\wudata_06.chk".

I'm assuming this is a false positive, but I'd thought I'd just check first.

uncle fuzzy · Post by **uncle fuzzy** » Sun Sep 27, 2009 10:27 pm

Several of the programs out there will report false positives on F@H files. This was another one.

BigJohnD · Post by **BigJohnD** » Sun Sep 27, 2009 10:28 pm

Many thanks - that was what I suspected, and I've reported it to Avast! as such.

uncle fuzzy · Post by **uncle fuzzy** » Sun Sep 27, 2009 10:31 pm

I just checked my files, and the .chk file says "Recovered File Fragments". You can get rid of it by running -oneunit, and when the client shuts down, delete the work folder. The .chk file will return later.

codysluder · Post by **codysluder** » Mon Sep 28, 2009 1:17 pm

uncle fuzzy wrote:I just checked my files, and the .chk file says "Recovered File Fragments". You can get rid of it by running -oneunit, and when the client shuts down, delete the work folder. The .chk file will return later.

The designation "Recovered File Fragments" is a Windows message telling you that they use the .chk designation for that purpose. In fact, FAH uses the same .chk suffix as part of their checkpointing system and it has nothing to do with what Windows tells you. [Windows is dumb about that, stemming back to the old DOS designation of the .xxx being used as a filetype.]

Running with -oneunit has nothing to do with it.

Post by **toTOW** » Mon Sep 28, 2009 2:04 pm

You should exclude client and work folders from Avast scans to avoid false positives ...

whynot · Post by **whynot** » Sat Oct 10, 2009 11:42 am

toTOW wrote:You should exclude client and work folders from Avast scans to avoid false positives ...

Is that in FAQ already?

Post by **toTOW** » Sat Oct 10, 2009 6:30 pm

I don't know, but a quick search on the forum with "avast" as a keyword will probably find many examples where this fix has been suggested.

7im · Post by **7im** » Sat Oct 10, 2009 8:57 pm

whynot wrote:
toTOW wrote:You should exclude client and work folders from Avast scans to avoid false positives ...
Is that in FAQ already?

No, AVAST wouldn't add it to their FAQ. They don't like to advertise false positives. Sorry.

whynot · Post by **whynot** » Sat Oct 17, 2009 11:46 am

7im wrote: No, AVAST wouldn't add it to their FAQ. They don't like to advertise false positives. Sorry.

I'm sorry about local FAQ

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