That's good to know. I've never seen a Trojan show up on this old computer 
of mine, so was a little worried.

Didn't know that AVG was known for false positives.


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Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 11:48 AM
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] I found a Trojan in Goldwave!


>
> Hi. No, I think it's a false positive. This is why I'm not keen on AVG to 
> be
> honest, as to me it flags genuine programmes as actual viruses, and this 
> is
> one good example, flagging GoldWave to be a virus. Avast won't do this.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "DoubleLegal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Blind Computer Users" <[email protected]>
> Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:39:07 -0600
> Subject: [Blind-Computing] I found a Trojan in Goldwave!
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> This kind of freaked me out.
>>
>> I just downloaded and installed the new Security updates for Windows XP
> this morning. As they were being installed, I walked away from my 
> computer.
> When I got back, my AVG Anti Virus had popped up saying it had found a
> Trojan Virus.
>>
>> I had also updated my AVG software at about 5am, but had not run a 
>> computer
> scan.
>>
>> I moved the virus to the virus vault and then got it's name and what
> program it was in. Turns out it was in Gold Wave. Looks like it would have
> been activated if I ever uninstalled Gold Wave.
>>
>> Here's the name of the virus and where it was located:
>>
>> Trojan Horse Downloader.banload.wpr
>> c:\program files\Goldwave\unstall.exe
>>
>> Scan your computers!!
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