>I also got the same with AVG this morning! It must be a wrong>alert in this case.As I mentioned above, a new update this morning from AVG should clear the problem.

Not the first time this happens either. Last time it was a freeware aircraft that triggered false positives from this very same virus scanner, causing the addon developer to go down in flames.I'd say, boycott AVG and get a real anti-virus program. All these false positives are damaging both to the payware and freeware community.

>Not the first time this happens either. Last time it was a>freeware aircraft that triggered false positives from this>very same virus scanner, causing the addon developer to go>down in flames.>I'd say, boycott AVG and get a real anti-virus program. All>these false positives are damaging both to the payware and>freeware community.All these false positives?It's the first one I've had in two years of using the product.Are the other virus scanners 100% foolproof?

Mark me as well for the AVG warning...Downloader.Agent.XSGot today's(Sept 10th)update,and all is well again...Fear not,fellow AVGer's !!:)

>I'd say, boycott AVG and get a real anti-virus program.Nonsense. AVG it's a really nice AV program, false positives are always possibile and happen with many others as well. For example, NOD32 mistakenly detect my FS bglman.dll for an unknown virus ( eurhistic detection at its worse... ) because it detects is callying the MS crypto API, so it wrongly assumes that, since the program is using strong cryptography, it "must" have something to hide, so it must be some kind of a virus. Of course the product uses crypto-api ( part of the Windows OS ) for more than legitimate purpouses, since it transmit sensitive data over the net, but NOD32 not only thinks it's a virus, but it block its execution, making FS crashing in the process...Norton Bloodhound ? Same thing, lots of false positives, once it even detected a virus inside a scenery TEXTURE!! ( ROTFL... )

"All these false positives?"Yeah, for a while it detected *every* single Clickteam installer as a trojan. It's an extremely popular installer used for many .exe FS9 addons and other programs as well. I also seem to remember someone posting a chart showing how many *real* viruses it detected compared to commercial scanners and it wasn't pretty.If you can afford 100's of $'s worth of FS9 addons and computer hardware, a proper anti-virus program, firewall etc. shouldn't cause any problems and will greatly enhance the security of your computer and other's as well seeing as these things spread through things like the address book, local network etc.

Before anyone starts calling names or boycottingR T F MA virus warning is not a signal to jump on the web and shout a program is not working, not a signal to e-mail everyone in your address book, not a signal to panic.AVG's web site, and I assume their documentation, is a very clear on procedure:1. Document the warning2. Quarantine the file3. Research the warning in their virus Library on their web site4. Submit any new or possibly questionable files to AVG for them to examine.virus warning are going to become more and more common over time. My company deals with over 30 MILLION virus warnings a month - that's right about a million a day.Almost 75% of the e-mail coming into our company is trashed and never delivered because it either (1) hits a virus alert, or (2) hits a known spyware/adware alert.You have to become more educated about viruses, adware and spyware.In today's world it is extremely likely that every person who reads this thread will have a virus warning at least once in the next year.Probably 25% of us will actually be infected with a virus.Even having your computer infected with a real virus is not a reason to panic. 99% of them will do no damage to your computer before you can clean them out. Stay current on the Microsoft patches, and Linux patches, and Mac patches - use a good AV program, update your virus definitions on a regular basis - at least weekly - know what to do if an alert comes up - know what NOT to do if an alert comes up.When the "Check Engine Oil" light comes on in your car - you don't throw away the engine. That's all a virus warning is - an alert that your need to take some action - as listed in the steps above, or in the documentation of your AV program.

>Before anyone starts calling names or boycotting>>R T F M>>A virus warning is not a signal to jump on the web and shout a>program is not working, not a signal to e-mail everyone in>your address book, not a signal to panic.>>AVG's web site, and I assume their documentation, is a very>clear on procedure:>>1. Document the warning>2. Quarantine the file>3. Research the warning in their virus Library on their web>site>4. Submit any new or possibly questionable files to AVG for>them to examine.>Or forget all that and just ignore it when a warning comes up for a file from a company as reputable as Flight 1 because we all know it can't be a virus! :-)

>"All these false positives?">>Yeah, for a while it detected *every* single Clickteam>installer as a trojan. It's an extremely popular installer>used for many .exe FS9 addons and other programs as well.Never had that problem with AVG.>also seem to remember someone posting a chart showing how many>*real* viruses it detected compared to commercial scanners and>it wasn't pretty.>The chart, I seem to remember, was months out of date and therefore pretty useless.

"we all know it can't be a virus! :-)"It *can* be. For example, a couple of years ago, a *very* big computer magazine here in Sweden managed to get a virus on one of their cover CD's. So, noone is immune to viruses.

>"we all know it can't be a virus! :-)">>It *can* be. For example, a couple of years ago, a *very* big>computer magazine here in Sweden managed to get a virus on one>of their cover CD's. So, noone is immune to viruses.Was the virus in a file submitted to the magazine or was it in a file actually created by the magazine?

I believe it was just a normal virus circulating that accidently got on to the CD. Has only ever happened once as far as I know but the risk is there.

get a good quality anti-virus software. I recommend trend micro PC-Cillin. Best one out there by far

Any program, including Microsoft programs, can be infected by a virus.Education is your key to protection - know what to do for a virus - how to isolate suspected files - how to get a second opinion - how to submit a file to your AV company.I've been working this in a major worldwide corporate environment for almost 10 years.I know that I do not know enough to say file xyz is infected with virus 123. I do know how to find out by forwarding suspected files to the AV company.