"FALSE" Trojan Horse SWF_c detected by AVG?

Blister

Well-Known Member
I keep getting this threat warning only when reading forum threads on this site. When I looked into it AVG said in December that these were false positives and would be fixed in the next update. I never got this warning until today, immediately after an AVG update. Now it makes reading threads impossible because, as soon as the threat is supposedly secured and removed it comes back multiple times again in seconds. Is anyone else seeing this? Should I use another anti-virus software or just send a report to AVG, and wait for another update.
 

Blister

Well-Known Member
For what it is worth I recently "upgraded" to Windows 10 and never had this problem before. AVG said it was a problem with AVG falsely recognizing a common Adobe Flash Player file. I turned off "Use Adobe Flash Player" in the new Microsoft browser, and the problem seems to have stopped.
 
Keep checking to see if there is another new update, newer than the version you have. If so, try loading it. It may correct itself.

Also ensure your Flash is at the most current release version.
 

Roman

Active Member
I don't have the problem while on the forums, but do when I click an article I want to read. It took me about 10 minutes to read one article because of this. This started yesterday.
 
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