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Just a warning note that AVG Antivirus (http://www.grisoft.com) is producing a false-positive on V3 scripts as of this morning's defs. It doesn't give you any second chance either, it just zaps any compiled scripts it finds.

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Just a warning note that AVG Antivirus (http://www.grisoft.com) is producing a false-positive on V3 scripts as of this morning's defs. It doesn't give you any second chance either, it just zaps any compiled scripts it finds.

Does any one else have any luck with this issue? I've been struck the same but not on every compiled script. I can't seem to nail it to any specific code, like registry access or file deletion. Even switching off Herustic scanning in AVG still produces a Generic Trojan false positive.

Personally i'm willing to just scrap AVG, although I've emailed them for further help. The problem is I have AutoIT compiled scripts on a lot of other machines that also use AVG.

Help anyone?

TIA ;)

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Just a warning note that AVG Antivirus (http://www.grisoft.com) is producing a false-positive on V3 scripts as of this morning's defs. It doesn't give you any second chance either, it just zaps any compiled scripts it finds.

Running Avg Professional Here/ With todays defs.

Just scanned my Compiled scripts dir / and get no probs here.

can others confirm please.

Thought this was all finished with month before last

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Installing a different version of AutoIt (e.g. a beta version) and recompiling will temporarily fix matters until AVG sorts things out. I understand this isn't a lot of help if you have scripts all over a LAN / WAN environment.

Can everyone posting please report what version of AutoIt are you using? AV detection problems like this in the past have been specific to one release version of AutoIt.

AVG needs to understand the structure of a compiled AutoIt EXE at least in a general way; I can help with that if needs be.

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Installing a different version of AutoIt (e.g. a beta version) and recompiling will temporarily fix matters until AVG sorts things out. I understand this isn't a lot of help if you have scripts all over a LAN / WAN environment.

Can everyone posting please report what version of AutoIt are you using?

AVG needs to understand the structure of a compiled AutoIt EXE at least in a general way; I can help with that if needs be.

Im using lastest beta of autoit here.

Just scanned autoit directory too.. No Problem either. If i recall last time this happened it was zapping a few items from here.

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I remember someone saying in aged posts AVG had addressed this..

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Thanks guys. I'll check out what version I have on my laptop and post it up here. I'm out of the city for a few days but i'll try to keep checking to see how this go's. Think I'll also try and search the archives for this happening last month too... i must've luckily missed that one!

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3.0.102.0 is definitely producing a positive, at the moment not sure if it's the only version or not.

Update: Just ran a test on a spare PC with the latest AVG defs (released 16:30 today) and it seems to have been fixed. At least, no false positive on 30.102.0 or 3.1.1.0, as far as I can see.

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