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Hey Mike, did you ever figure out why your TT screensaver was being detected as a virus?

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Old Jul 16, 2008 | 07:35 AM
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Default Hey Mike, did you ever figure out why your TT screensaver was being detected as a virus?

Mine's been doing it intermittently for the past couple days now. The window never stays open long enough for me to click on it, though. (AVG)
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Old Jul 16, 2008 | 07:58 AM
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it's the cluster virus
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Old Jul 16, 2008 | 08:40 AM
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Well, then, I guess I'm immune. P
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Old Jul 16, 2008 | 08:43 AM
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Default Sorry guys :(

John downloaded the 2006 one (he previously only had 2004) and scanned it with AVG and it showed clean. But then a couple of days later AVG pegged both as infected and deleted them.

I've got Norton 2008 on my pc and I was sure to recheck all updates and do a full system scan and it showed 100% clean.

I'm not sure what is going on. My computer has never had a virus of any kind that virus scan has ever detected.
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Old Jul 16, 2008 | 08:57 AM
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Default It's not your fault. It's probably got something to do with the new virus definition files.

I'm no programmer, but it looks like something wonky. AVG will identify it, but not do anything about it on my machine. It's weird.
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Old Jul 16, 2008 | 09:03 AM
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Default AVG is probably seeing what it believes is virus-like activity, in this case a "false positive"

I switched to Avast! last year and like it much better.
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Old Jul 16, 2008 | 10:20 AM
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I may too. AVG stopped supporting it's free version last month.
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Old Jul 16, 2008 | 01:22 PM
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Default It stopped doing it the next day. I think Avast! probably updated the definition that was tagging

it. I get updates almost every day. It's a great FREE Virus scanner, if anyone is looking for one. This has been the only hiccup I have had, and it wasn't that bad since it went away.
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