Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Avast Win32:Delf-MZG Problem

Right now Avast servers are not accessible. It's not possible to access their forums and official blog due to high volume traffic.

The recent avast! VPS update has a serious flaw inside it, various files are being marked as "Win32:Delf-MZG (Trj)". Some of the common files being marked as this false positive include Skype and Spybot S&D.

If you have updated avast during the last 48 hours do not restart your computer!
This is caused by avast scanning the starting files, during this process it will mark a file as hazardous and will not allow you proceed without aknowledgement, being that this is happening during the time in which windows loads there is no possable way to give aknowledgement to the program therefore putting the computer at a standstill.

Possable workarounds

1. Besure to determine if your avast has been updated by finding your Spybot S&D folder and scaning the updater.

2. Asuming that it detects it as the false positive, open up msconfig and uncheck avast scripts in the services tab and the startup tab.

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