Vista & AVG - False positive?

Countcussy · 2 Nov 2008 at 23:19

I am randomly getting a warning about tsad.dll from AVG.

It says its in the Windows folder. Adaware, does not find it, Spybot does not find it, Windows defender does not find it, but AVG does. I am fully up to date, and in the end I forced it to the virus vault.

It tells me its generic spyware.

Google did not turn up anything convincing, and I have none of the software its supposedly linked to. I am running Vista Business on a Dell laptop. Can anyone shed any light on this or confirm for me if they have this file in the Windows folder? (Not system32)

lord filbuster · 2 Nov 2008 at 23:25

It's adware as far as i can tell. I'd just delete it entirely, maybe run a full system scan with avg and spybot.

alex24 · 2 Nov 2008 at 23:25

It's not in my windows folder, and a quick search in google....

here

Maybe try an online virus/spyware scan. Housecall might work, someone can probably suggest something better though, I haven't used one in a while.

Countcussy · 2 Nov 2008 at 23:37

alexhull24 said:
It's not in my windows folder, and a quick search in google....

here

Maybe try an online virus/spyware scan. Housecall might work, someone can probably suggest something better though, I haven't used one in a while.

Thank you, but I had seen that, and it has no mention of Vista.

alex24 · 3 Nov 2008 at 00:44

Yeah, I noticed it doesn't mention vista, but I think the behaviour of the program suggests it doesn't know the difference i.e. it's in the /Windows folder.