spicy Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 hi .. i have a strange problem really with avg 8 ... it told me that i have a spy ware called CMDOW.exe and it was removed to virus volt i wasnt really surfing any web sites so i wanted to know why .. i formated and clean install win xp sp2 and i installed avg 8 first thing and i scanned and it was there again ... so i wounder .. is it a win 32 system file ? and if so why avg is removing it? and if it was a spyware haw come i got it after formatting ? thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 According to google it is not spyware.http://www.commandline.co.uk/cmdow/http://www.msfn.org/board/CMDOWEXE-Virus-HacktoolHideWindow-t75935.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spicy Posted June 6, 2008 Author Share Posted June 6, 2008 yes but if it was on win xp cd and its one of the original win xp sys 32 fileswhy dose avg say its a virus? isnt that wrong? would Microsoft put viruses in its products?lolit dosnt sound right and makes either avg looks stupid or Microsoft looks even more stupidi mean am sure i didnt get it from out side .. its an original sys 32 file !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 It's a false positive. AVG is wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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