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    Trojan in FAH-a1 core?

    Avast just popped up that the downloaded core contains the win32:swizzor trojan?? wtf is this and will it hurt me?


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    Re: Trojan in FAH-a1 core?

    http://www.ca.com/us/securityadvisor....aspx?id=14461

    Personally I would suspect a false positive. The virus was initially reported in 2003 and that page was last updated in 2006.

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    Re: Trojan in FAH-a1 core?

    its because it downloads and sends data just like a virus would. Its a false positive.
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    Re: Trojan in FAH-a1 core?

    Tried reporting as flase positive, now core errors and re-downloads, and pops the damned trojan message up again

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    Re: Trojan in FAH-a1 core?

    Was the MD5 sum correct?
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