windower virus (false positive)

[Skie]

So i started up my pc today, played ffxi for a while then went to work. While i was at work my gf played some sims 3 and that was it. When i got home i tryed to get on ffxi again and when i hit the windower launcher avista poped up saying virus trogan x2, i told it to delete them becuase i didnt know wtf it was so better safe than sorry. now its deleted my windower launcher, when i retarted it says i have too have correct permissions >< wtf up.

[Skie]

this is pop up info:

File Name: C:\Users\Whitney\Downloads\Desktop\Windower\launch er.exe
Maleware name: Win32:Delf-MZG [Trj]
Maleware type: Trojan Horse
VPS verson: 0912303-0, 12/03/2009


just poped up saying a helper file in my spybot serach and destroy was a virus also...

[Sonomaa]

probably a false positive, I would go check on windower forums to find out

[Skie]

its completley freeking out with all kinds of stuff saying everything is a trogen

[Sonomaa]

what virus scanner do you have?

[Skie]

Avast. i tryed to do a full scan just to make sure its not a trojan that just f'in with shit trying to mess with other crap and it started a memory scan and detected a virus in memory. restarted and doing a full scan and its detecting a bunch of shit to deal with win32: delf-MZG

[Pikarya]

Its Avast, not Windower. Remove it or w/e.

[Silenka]

Anyone got any good ideas for a new antivirus program? Avast has outlived my interest in it.

[Kimiko]

Yeah, new version of avast is triggering a lot of stuff as viruses.

[Skie]

so how i get it to ignore shit and let me use it ><

[Sonomaa]

uninstall

[Skie]

i need some protection, what is another one i can get free thats good, besides AVG i had bad experiences with .

[Darte]

A temporary fix:

Disable avast
download windower from the usual place
install to temp directory
cut paste launcher from temp to your current windower directory.
run windower
let it boot to POL
reactivate avast

[Rockstaru]

I like Avira.

[Gokulo]

I'd also recommend Avira.

[LinktheDeme]

kapersky and bitdefender were rated really high.

I personally like norton 360

[antihero]

nod32

[The_OG_Nelta]

AVG? ;_;

[Mafai]

Has anyone tried:

http://www.microsoft.com/Security_Essentials/

Any thoughts?

[orinthia]

MSE is actually fairly competitive. Pretty light, transparent, and simple to use. Not a bad choice if you just want something to work upon installation without fiddling with settings. On some system changes, its little icon will change and give you options on allowing things it's caught, like say to your host file.