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I had the the Zip-file of Farbrausch's "The Product" (fr08_final.zip) on my harddrive for a while now and after the latest update of AVG, it reports me that the archive file is infected with a virus called "Obfustat.X".

Is this a false positive?

yes.

Definitely.

afaik, some of the used crunchers/compressors in demo's give false positives in some anti-virus tools.
I read about this not so long ago (link anyone?)

yes, Viruz2 inside!

its infected with love and leet coding skillz.

damn guys, without the virus it could have been even smaller!

I thought it's pretty well known since nearly 10 years now that many AV packages produce false positives on demos/intros.
it's always fun scanning my 64k intros directory, sooooo many viruses :)

It's not funny if the scanner directly moves the file into it's virus vault like AVG does and I have to copy back everything in its place :(

anti-viruses are even worse than viruses

manko > hell yeah !

i just hate most of them: in 90% of the cases they do their best so that joe user is unable to uninstall them in favor of a competitor.

also last time i was upset was by kaspersky which bloats your hard drive by storing preprocessing stuff into ntfs streams silently: of course when you uninstall the bastard all the mess remains behind

ntfs streams are such a sneaky feature : they seem to be used only for bad reasons and of course windows explorer doesn't allow users to monitor them :/