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george_geller at speakeasy

Jun 16, 2009, 1:12 PM

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false positives for

Recently, the scan has been giving me:

sda1/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office12/EXCEL.EXE:
W32.Virut.Gen.D-163 FOUND
sda1/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office12/excelcnv.exe:
W32.Virut.Gen.D-163 FOUND
sda1/WINDOWS/SoftwareDistribution/Download/754e3b95d1b56e045c85bd49529d92b4/xlconv.cab:
W32.Virut.Gen.D-163 FOUND
sda1/WINDOWS/SoftwareDistribution/Download/488b87313a382b81238c79301c751bbd/excel.cab:
W32.Virut.Gen.D-163 FOUND
sda1/WINDOWS/Installer/789ce7.msp: W32.Virut.Gen.D-163 FOUND
sda1/WINDOWS/Installer/789cfb.msp: W32.Virut.Gen.D-163 FOUND

Since a full scan with Windows defender doesn't detect this issue and
http://virusscan.jotti.org/ shows that 789cfb.msp is virus free with all
programs except clam, I think this is a false positive.

see http://wsms.wikiplanet.com/mediawiki/index.php/Clamscan for
additional details.

Please advise.

Thanks, George

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sarocet at gmail

Jun 17, 2009, 1:30 PM

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Re: false positives for [In reply to]

George Geller wrote:
> Recently, the scan has been giving me:
>
> sda1/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office12/EXCEL.EXE:
> W32.Virut.Gen.D-163 FOUND
> sda1/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office12/excelcnv.exe:
> W32.Virut.Gen.D-163 FOUND
> sda1/WINDOWS/SoftwareDistribution/Download/754e3b95d1b56e045c85bd49529d92b4/xlconv.cab:
> W32.Virut.Gen.D-163 FOUND
> sda1/WINDOWS/SoftwareDistribution/Download/488b87313a382b81238c79301c751bbd/excel.cab:
> W32.Virut.Gen.D-163 FOUND
> sda1/WINDOWS/Installer/789ce7.msp: W32.Virut.Gen.D-163 FOUND
> sda1/WINDOWS/Installer/789cfb.msp: W32.Virut.Gen.D-163 FOUND
>
> Since a full scan with Windows defender doesn't detect this issue and
> http://virusscan.jotti.org/ shows that 789cfb.msp is virus free with all
> programs except clam, I think this is a false positive.
>
> see http://wsms.wikiplanet.com/mediawiki/index.php/Clamscan for
> additional details.
>
> Please advise.
>
> Thanks, George
>
The third and fourth files contain the first and secodn, so it's the same.
Are they from reputable sources? Eg. are they digitally signed by Microsoft?

Just follow the usual procedure to report a false positive:
http://cgi.clamav.net/sendvirus.cgi

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