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Message 1373917 - Posted: 31 May 2013, 0:27:30 UTC - in response to Message 1373905.  

If it's like 2012, open the AVG interface, select AntiVirus and then click manage exceptions. Add your BOINC/projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu directory to the list of exceptions. That directory will probably either be C:\Program Data\BOINC\projects\setiathome.berkeley.edu or C:\Users\YourUsername\Program Data\BOINC\projects\setiathome.berkeley.edu

There also may be a way to mark programs as exception from the quarrantine list, but I don't have a way to check that.
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Message 1373926 - Posted: 31 May 2013, 1:07:52 UTC

avg has become well known for embarassing false positives.stopped using it years ago for that and many other reasons
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Message 1373934 - Posted: 31 May 2013, 2:00:20 UTC

Avast: No Threat Found

I had BAD experiences with AVG, years ago.
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Message 1373954 - Posted: 31 May 2013, 3:13:31 UTC

Resident Shield in AVG 2012 identifies boinc.exe as a virus. I have seen it only on one computer with 2012 as of yet. Log follows.
Take care!

Virus found Win32/Heur;"c:\ProgramData\BOINC\projects\setiathome.berkeley.edu\libfftw3f-3-3_upx.dll";"Infected";"05/30/2013, 11:01:54 PM";"file";"C:\Program Files\BOINC\boinc.exe"
Virus found Win32/Heur;"c:\ProgramData\BOINC\projects\setiathome.berkeley.edu\libfftw3f-3-3_upx.dll";"Infected";"05/30/2013, 7:22:22 AM";"file";"C:\Program Files\BOINC\boinc.exe"
Virus found Win32/Heur;"c:\ProgramData\BOINC\projects\setiathome.berkeley.edu\libfftw3f-3-3_upx.dll";"Infected";"05/30/2013, 4:18:57 AM";"file";"C:\Program Files\BOINC\boinc.exe"
Virus found Win32/Heur;"c:\ProgramData\BOINC\projects\setiathome.berkeley.edu\libfftw3f-3-3_upx.dll";"Infected";"05/30/2013, 2:29:38 AM";"file";"C:\Program Files\BOINC\boinc.exe"
Virus found Win32/Heur;"c:\ProgramData\BOINC\projects\setiathome.berkeley.edu\setiathome_7.00_windows_intelx86.exe";"Infected";"05/30/2013, 1:41:08 AM";"file";"C:\Program Files\BOINC\boinc.exe"
Virus found Win32/Heur;"c:\ProgramData\BOINC\projects\setiathome.berkeley.edu\libfftw3f-3-3_upx.dll";"Infected";"05/30/2013, 1:26:52 AM";"file";"C:\Program Files\BOINC\boinc.exe"
Virus found Win32/Heur;"c:\ProgramData\BOINC\projects\setiathome.berkeley.edu\setigraphics_7.00_windows_intelx86.exe";"Infected";"05/30/2013, 1:25:54 AM";"file";"C:\Program Files\BOINC\boinc.exe"


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Message 1373978 - Posted: 31 May 2013, 4:20:54 UTC - in response to Message 1373693.  

If you're willing, could you please download http://boinc2.ssl.berkeley.edu/beta/download/setiathome_7.00_windows_intelx86_unpacked.exe
and scan it with your virus scanner to see if it reports a problem with the uncompressed file?

And if that checks out, try to scan a recompressed version, just to be sure. http://boinc2.ssl.berkeley.edu/beta/download/setiathome_7.00_windows_intelx86_repacked.exe


No problem with those files.
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Message 1373980 - Posted: 31 May 2013, 4:38:17 UTC - in response to Message 1373954.  

Resident Shield in AVG 2012 identifies boinc.exe as a virus. I have seen it only on one computer with 2012 as of yet. Log follows.


Yes, that's looks like a misidentification of the UPX compression method as a virus, probably because the in-memory image doesn't match the file on disk. I've contacted AVG. Hopefully they'll respond.
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Message 1373991 - Posted: 31 May 2013, 5:13:40 UTC

I have been running AGV Business Suite for 4 years and running BOINC longer than that. I have never had any problem and I am running Cosmology, Einstein, and SETI. I am using Windows 7, on a HP Pavilion m6-1045dx.
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Message 1373992 - Posted: 31 May 2013, 5:13:58 UTC

No issue here !
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Message 1374060 - Posted: 31 May 2013, 7:26:16 UTC - in response to Message 1374035.  

I've been running AVG for well over 11yrs now and I have never had this happen yet on any of my rigs (present or past) so it has me puzzled (not all that hard to do at times) as to why some do.

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Message 1374082 - Posted: 31 May 2013, 7:46:05 UTC - in response to Message 1374061.  
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The Explorer can't find the url of download Boinc 7 for windows?
Don't get me wrong but I do need some New Work.

I'm having a similar problem at the moment, three files not downloading.
(setiathome_7.00_windows, setigraphics, and libfftw3f-3-3-_upx.dll)
[Edit] Actually, also a lot of task files showing up as Downloading in the tasks window, but making no appearance at all in the transfer window... [/e]
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Message 1374083 - Posted: 31 May 2013, 7:48:45 UTC - in response to Message 1374082.  

The Explorer can't find the url of download Boinc 7 for windows?
Don't get me wrong but I do need some New Work.

I'm having a similar problem at the moment, three files not downloading.
(setiathome_7.00_windows, setigraphics, and libfftw3f-3-3-_upx.dll)

Still going on, eh?

Give it time.

All my rigs were in the same trouble, and I went to sleep on it.

In the morning all had cleared.

In addition, Eric made an adjustment to the download servers.

See additional info in the v7 rollout thread.

Where...chuckle.....you should be posting this in the first place, not a news thread.
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Message 1374141 - Posted: 31 May 2013, 9:38:50 UTC

Ive checked the files "boinc_7.0.64_windows_intelx86.exe" and "setiathome_7.00_windows_intelx86_repacked.exe" with AVG 2013. With both of them there were no problems!! ;-))
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Message 1374152 - Posted: 31 May 2013, 9:56:07 UTC - in response to Message 1373678.  

Same problem with Avira Antivirus Free:


No problems with

Product version 13.0.0.3640 18.4.2013
Search engine 8.02.12.50 27.5.2013
Virus definition file 7.11.81.236 31.5.2013
Control Center 13.06.00.1194 7.5.2013
Config Center 13.06.00.1246 7.5.2013
Luke Filewalker 13.06.00.1262 7.5.2013
Real-Time Protection 13.06.00.778 2.4.2013
Filter 13.05.01.10 2.4.2013
Web Protection 13.06.07.1236 7.5.2013
Scheduler 13.06.00.778 2.4.2013
Updater 13.06.14.1262 7.5.2013
Rootkits Protection 13.05.01.05 2.4.2013
Local Decider 13.06.02.1262 7.5.2013
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Message 1374180 - Posted: 31 May 2013, 10:54:37 UTC - in response to Message 1373868.  

The linked files on previous posts ... don't trigger any warning neither with the free version of Avast neither with the last Norton Antivirus...

The same 'no-problem' with ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4.2.71.2 - 32 bit
setiathome_7.00_windows_intelx86_unpacked.exe	1 670 144 
setiathome_7.00_windows_intelx86_repacked.exe	  448 512 
setiathome_7.00_windows_intelx86.exe 		  484 352 

No warning during download (using SRWare Iron - save to Desktop)
No warning from manual scan (using context menu - Scan with ESET NOD32 Antivirus ('Heuristics' + 'Advanced Heuristics' is ON as is by default))
No any warning on VirusTotal (for the 3 files - Reanalyse)

I also did scans (only for setiathome_7.00_windows_intelx86.exe) on two other sites (because they may use different sensitivity of heuristics):
http://r.virscan.org/report/ad516e9d1dbb92525bfac9b980d5a2e3.html
http://virusscan.jotti.org/en/scanresult/2a8530b92a70edc5eda8d9a1e6584441822c2719

The only 'red' is from ClamAV - PUA.Win32.Packer.UpxProtector


 


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Message 1374200 - Posted: 31 May 2013, 11:32:19 UTC - in response to Message 1373641.  

I run AVG 2013 on one of my machines (win7 64 bit) and often install the Beta BOINC (whenever it is available) on it. I don't recall this occurring on the 7.0.xx or the 7.1.1 beta's for my 64 bit system.
But, the alert is timely, thank you.
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Message 1374205 - Posted: 31 May 2013, 11:52:41 UTC - in response to Message 1373693.  

No issues with BitDefender on either of those two files either, and this one's quite known for false positives too.
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Message 1374216 - Posted: 31 May 2013, 12:28:45 UTC - in response to Message 1373641.  

Ok. aguardarei sem tomar nenhuma providência, pois o antivirus realmente não detectou nada, espero que possam me ajudar nesse caso.
Agradeço ao Senhor Eric.
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Message 1374238 - Posted: 31 May 2013, 13:13:56 UTC

hi my Computer says he cant install cause the date libfftw3f-3-3_upx.dll is missing.
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Message 1374247 - Posted: 31 May 2013, 13:26:05 UTC - in response to Message 1373641.  

AVG complained similarly when I tried to install the new BOINC production release earlier today. It gave me a choice of creating an exception for it, which I selected, and then spun for 15 hours until I killed off that process. Not sure what I have and am running now.

Suggest that whatever you come up with to alleviate the issue will be auto-downloaded for installation to replace whatever is left from today's attempt.

Thanks for your efforts!
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Message 1374282 - Posted: 31 May 2013, 14:10:43 UTC - in response to Message 1373641.  
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Thanks! I was wondering what happened. When AVG 2013 asks for permission to allow BOINC, and you select 'allow', it will freeze up AVG to where you need to shut it down through processes.
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