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AVG's punch on APPLE's iTunes
26 July,2009 Aditya Bikram Singh




I was browsing as usual and comes to know an interesting news about AVG, one of the most popular anti-virus programs, is causing confusion today by wrongly identifying iTunes files as trojans. After updating its virus definitions, the anti-virus software finds up to 181 “viruses” in iTunes: attempting to quarantine the files prevents iTunes from working. The supposed virus name is “trojan horse small.bog”. This is the news what I've read from the post by Pete Cashmore in mashable on 24th July. Its really an interesting news and stimulates me to write something which I think I should share with you there.
Though AVG is a popular anti-virus program but it has some bug always, either their present updates or previous versions. Its Free software is worse and may be harmful for many of the individuals who uses it. This is my opinion on AVG coz, I suffered once from it despite having full control over it. It fails to protect you in a real-Time.

This is what my view. For the other part of the story what APPLE do to protect their products from False Positive generated by AVG go on to read further





An extensive thread in the Apple discussion forums shows that AVG is giving a false positive: there’s no risk of trojans in iTunes, and quarantining the files will break your iTunes install. You can disable the alerts by creating an exception in AVG:

1. Open AVG

2. Go to Resident Shield -> Manage Exceptions -> Add Path

3. Add C:\Program Files\iTunes and C:\Program Files\iPod

AVG will no doubt correct the issue in their next definitions update.