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[Inactive] Virus detected by AVG upon opening Google Chrome

Discussion in 'Virus and Malware Removal' started by Adam1101, Dec 24, 2010.

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  1. Adam1101 Newcomer, in training

    Turn on my PC this morning and it booted fine and was working as it was last night, open Chrome and it loads fine, after a couple of minutes of using it I'm told I have a :

    Trojan horse BackDoor.Generic13.YYE

    Located in C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Temp\chrome_21288\source\Chrome-bin\chrome.exe

    I just saw it as a normal virus and disregarded it and chose the Heal option. Chrome proceeded to uninstall (or it seemed to have) from my computer.

    I couldn't install Chrome again as this same virus warning appeared after it downloaded and began to install.

    I System Restored to 3 days ago and it was working fine for a while then again this warning came up. On my open tabs I had a few Wikipedia articles, youtube tabs, a manga site I'd been reading from for a month or two, hotmail and Facebook, nothing out the ordinary.

    Ignoring the warning allowed me to use Chrome for a bit longer before the same message appeared, moving it to the Virus Vault gave the same result as healing it.
    Adam1101, Dec 24, 2010
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  2. Broni Malware Annihilator

    Welcome aboard [IMG]

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    Broni, Dec 24, 2010
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  3. Adam1101 Newcomer, in training

    Solution

    I looked around and the answer seems to be either revert your AVG 8.5 to a previous virus definition by going to:

    Tools>Advance Settings>Updates>Manage then pressing the revert to previous version button.

    That didn't work for me so I downloaded the AVG 2011 free anti-virus scan and that worked great.

    Hope this can help some other people, seems it only affected people from today.
    Adam1101, Dec 24, 2010
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  4. Broni Malware Annihilator

    Unfortunately, one of AVG issues is producing a lot of false positives.

    I'm glad to see, you resolved the issue :)

    Merry Christmas!
    Broni, Dec 24, 2010
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