MSFN Forum: AVAST sees Firefox10_Silent_EN.exe as a trojan - MSFN Forum

Jump to content



Unattended CD/DVD Guide Homepage · MSFN Forum Rules

Welcome to the Applications Installs forum. Make sure you read the forum rules before you start posting.

Links/Requests to warez and/or any illegal material (porn, cracks, serials, etc..) will not be tolerated. Discussion of circumventing WGA/activation/timebombs/keygens or any other illegal activity will also not be tolerated.

We try our best to keep this forum clean of illegal content. If you see any illegal activity use the "report" button you find in every post to report the specific post to the moderators. If you ignore any of the rules you will be banned without notice.

Read Forum Rules
Page 1 of 1
  • You cannot start a new topic
  • You cannot reply to this topic

AVAST sees Firefox10_Silent_EN.exe as a trojan Rate Topic: -----

#1 User is offline   Wedge1 

  • Junior
  • Pip
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 67
  • Joined: 17-October 04

Posted 22 December 2004 - 01:20 AM

I am trying Avast Anti-Virus out for a change. I have always used Norton's but I wanted to try to find something that doesn't slow down the PC as much as Norton AV does. So, I turned to freeware.

I scanned my entire system after installing Avast last night and all was well.

This evening I try to connect to my Home network (LAN) and the silent installation executable of Firefox (that simon was so generous to create for us) is suddenly being recognized as the following trojan:

Win32:Trojan-gen. {UPX!}


Can anybody explain this to me? Avast is recommending that I "move to chest".


#2 User is offline   MCT 

  • MSFN Junkie
  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 3,288
  • Joined: 19-May 04

Posted 22 December 2004 - 01:26 AM

its a false positive most likely, i dont use simon's firefox, but i dont think he'd have a trojan in it, if you're lookin for a better antivirus that uses almost no memory & has amazing detection, ill reccommend getting Nod32 Antivirus

#3 User is offline   Wedge1 

  • Junior
  • Pip
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 67
  • Joined: 17-October 04

Posted 22 December 2004 - 02:08 AM

Thank you for the recommendation. I'll give it a test run. Can you add more about your experience with it?

EDIT/ Could you recheck the link you provided? It is timing out on me.
EDIT2/ Just googled it, no problem.

#4 User is offline   MCT 

  • MSFN Junkie
  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 3,288
  • Joined: 19-May 04

Posted 22 December 2004 - 02:14 AM

ive been using it for about a yr , its been amazing :P detects ALOT, new definitions daily, has the BEST (said by PC Magazine i believe) detection of wild viruses (viruses that arent known)

Posted Image
screenshot of the memory usage :)

Share this topic:


Page 1 of 1
  • You cannot start a new topic
  • You cannot reply to this topic

1 User(s) are reading this topic
0 members, 1 guests, 0 anonymous users



All trademarks mentioned on this page are the property of their respective owners
Copyright © 2001 - 2011 msfn.org
Privacy Policy