I believe that it’s possible that today’s Avast VPS file (080626-0) may contain one or more false positives as it did back in post 710,702 in May. I did my usual morning re-boot on both my XP and Vista installations and got an Avast screaming alert that a virus has been found in sbautoupdate.exe which happens to be the updater program for keeping SpywareBlaster current. Since the file wasn’t flagged as bad earlier this morning with “yesterday’s” Avast file, I highly doubt that it got corrupted in those few minutes that I was reading from The Lounge.
As with the previous instance back in May, I’ll be keeping my eye on the Avast site for a manual update. Obviously, I don’t know if this Avast VPS will go nuts for anyone else.
Edited later to add: From the multiple posts on the Avast forum, it DOES look like another false positive. Someone also said other AV programs are doing the same thing, so keep an eye open.
