{"id":931,"date":"2009-12-03T11:59:15","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T03:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whoisandrewwee.com\/internet-marketing\/avast-showing-win32delf-mzg-trj-errors-read-here\/"},"modified":"2009-12-03T12:09:24","modified_gmt":"2009-12-03T04:09:24","slug":"avast-showing-win32delf-mzg-trj-errors-read-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/internet-marketing\/avast-showing-win32delf-mzg-trj-errors-read-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Avast Showing &#8220;Win32:Delf-MZG [Trj]&#8221; errors? Read Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re using Avast&#8217;s Anti-Virus solution on any of your home computers, you may throwing the program is throwing up reports of your .exe files being infected by &#8220;Win32:Delf-MZG [Trj]&#8221;. This threw me for a loop, because I&#8217;m pretty careful when it comes to data mangement.<\/p>\n<p>Before you start deleting .exe&#8217;s or putting them into a chest, you should know that the latest anti-virus definition update is said to contain some bugs which is causing false positives to register.<\/p>\n<p>The word from those following the anti-virus industry is to avoid running Avast for now, till another definition update is released to fix this issue. Hopefully this is done in the next 24-48 hours.<\/p>\n<p>PS: It might be a cause for a freakout if you see a string of trojan\/malware warnings, but you are regularly backing up data on your desktop\/laptop, aren&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: Blackhatworld forum post with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackhatworld.com\/blackhat-seo\/blackhat-lounge\/146070-dont-update-avast-antivirus.html\" target=\"_blank\">info<\/a> on the situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re using Avast&#8217;s Anti-Virus solution on any of your home computers, you may throwing the program is throwing up reports of your .exe files being infected by &#8220;Win32:Delf-MZG [Trj]&#8221;. This threw me for a loop, because I&#8217;m pretty careful when it comes to data mangement. Before you start deleting .exe&#8217;s or putting them into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":932,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions\/932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}