Sorry if this isn’t the best place to ask this. But I have been using Comodo Firewall, without actually using the anti-virus part, together with AVG Anti-Virus for a while. Mostly it has worked ok. But now the latest virus scan with AVG is finding heur.cav and cmdagent.exe as viruses. Could there actually be viruses, or is this happening because the two anti-virus programs don’t go together? I am aware that having two anti-virus programs on the same computer could lead to problems, I just hadn’t thought much about this before because I have hardly even tried the anti-virus part of Comodo.
This is a FP. If your virus scanner (in CIS) is disabled, you (shouldn’t) have any conflicts.
I am getting something very similar; but AVG is specifically saying that the Win32/PEPatch virus has been found in heur.cav and cmdagent.
Is this really a false positive given that AVG is naming the virus???
Cheers,
Dave
yes it is.
Hello, on today when i have updated AVG. AVG has found some virus in comodo installed directory. (\SCANNERS\heur.cav and \cmdagent.exe) The virus that AVG has found is “win32/pepatch”. I have found many sites that say it is real and many that say it is fake. On one of my other pc, I have setup it with the same software e.g. AVG and comodo with it fully updated and it does not come up the the virus message. I have deleted these files many times and even uninstalled comodo and made sure all file under comodo are deleted but is still comes back. I have done a full scan on the pc and i can not find the virus any where else on the pc. If it is a virus, how can i delete it? Where does it hide? e.g. BIOS, etc
PLEASE REPLY TO THIS ASAP. THANKS
This is a FP that AVG would need to correct.
You may check the following links if you do not wish to believe anyone here.
http://www.hijackfree.com/en/processdetails/file1717.aspx
http://www.processlibrary.com/directory/files/cmdagent/
More links available simply by Googling ‘cmdagent.exe’
A false positive by definition is a file that an AV scanner feels is a particular virus, when in fact the file is a legitimate file and not a virus.
AVG has been having a lot of false positives in regards to CIS files in the last few months.