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Avast! "A virus was found!"
Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2009 10:22 pm
by BigJohnD
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.
Re: Avast! "A virus was found!"
Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2009 10:27 pm
by uncle fuzzy
Several of the programs out there will report false positives on F@H files. This was another one.
Re: Avast! "A virus was found!"
Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2009 10:28 pm
by BigJohnD
Many thanks - that was what I suspected, and I've reported it to Avast! as such.
Re: Avast! "A virus was found!"
Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2009 10:31 pm
by uncle fuzzy
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.
Re: Avast! "A virus was found!"
Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 1:17 pm
by codysluder
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.
Re: Avast! "A virus was found!"
Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 2:04 pm
by toTOW
You should exclude client and work folders from Avast scans to avoid false positives ...
Re: Avast! "A virus was found!"
Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 11:42 am
by whynot
toTOW wrote:You should exclude client and work folders from Avast scans to avoid false positives ...
Is that in FAQ already?
Re: Avast! "A virus was found!"
Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 6:30 pm
by toTOW
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.
Re: Avast! "A virus was found!"
Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 8:57 pm
by 7im
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.
Re: Avast! "A virus was found!"
Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 11:46 am
by whynot
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
