Using Lunatics platform. The module catching this is Identity Protection. Unfortunately there are no details provided. (The field cut off on the right edge just says "File or folder" as the object type, not what is triggering the detection.)

I ensured it wasn't quarantined, yet I can no longer find this file at the location indicated, but instead in the oldApp_backup subfolder. For some reason the C:\ProgramData\BOINC\projects\setiathome.berkeley.edu has become read-only.

I ran it through VirusTotal after re-extracting it from the original download archive, verified it has the same hash as the one in oldApp_backup, and it came up clean with 0/46. So it's probably a false positive.

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Always exclude the entire BOINC data directory from scanning, that keeps all problems regarding AV away.

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mm no prob's here with AVG I noticed it says reboot to finish action !! AVG hadn't just done a update did it just before it flaged it ?????

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mm no prob's here with AVG I noticed it says reboot to finish action !! AVG hadn't just done a update did it just before it flaged it ?????

I think it means by that because it's a running process that it needs a reboot to remove or quarantine it.

Always exclude the entire BOINC data directory from scanning, that keeps all problems regarding AV away.

I'm sure the developers are trustworthy, but what if their compilers are compromised, for example? (Yes, this has happened.)

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Your prob right .
Have you done a reboot lately and has AVG updated lately I have had big trouble with updates from AVG over the last couple of yrs and told them so

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AVG gave false positives before too.
I would use some another scanner, like Avira or NOD32 or DrWEB.

Also you could upload this binary to online service and check with few dozens different antiviruses available there.
Until that I will not bother to check. I refused to use AVG long ago.

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I'm with you Ras got quite peed off with AVG but they convinced me that was in the past so like a dumass I listened didn't I

oh well i'm now i'm warned I could be having trouble with avg

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This pops up now and again with some peoples' AVG but so far I've never experienced myself in over 12 years of using it.

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wiggo never even when It did a update on the ap itself cose I have they called it a update but they changed everything dam thing just installed over the older 1 and would crash and then I couldn't uninstall the bloody thing had to use a special program to uninstall all versions

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AVG gave false positives before too.
I would use some another scanner, like Avira or NOD32 or DrWEB.
Also you could upload this binary to online service and check with few dozens different antiviruses available there.
Until that I will not bother to check. I refused to use AVG long ago.

Yup, I linked to VirusTotal's results in the OP... no detections, even from AVG's main engine. But I think it's still better to have this info posted so it's a known issue.

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But I think it's still better to have this info posted so it's a known issue.

And even better it would be to post this to AVG forum and their support, cause it's known issue... in their scanner ;)

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I had this happen last night with AP6_win_x86_SSE2_OpenCL_ATI_r1812.exe. The BOINC Folder WAS on the Exclude list, AVG flagged it anyway under 'General behavioral detection', then hung when I told AVG to allow and restore. It looks like the only way to prevent it from being flagged under 'Identity Protection' is to exclude the specific App. If you just exclude the Folder, you are not given the option to exclude the Folder from 'Identity Protection'.

All ~80 ATI APs were trashed when AVG removed the App. I was able to preform a Project Reset before all the "Errors" were reported. During the Reset, the Scheduler once again decided to Time-Out all my Cuda tasks. This time, I think the Scheduler resent 100 old APs as ATI APs, then began resending the more recent APs as CPU APs, and by the time it got to the Cuda 23s it was out of 'allotted' space for GPU tasks. Every time I've had to do a reset, the Cuda tasks get "Expired". Oh well...