Submission + - Avira anti-virus detects itself (h-online.com) 1
ddfall writes: After a recent update, Avira's anti-virus software reports its own AESCRIPT.DLL file as a trojan or spyware...
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Avira anti-virus detects itself
A successful [software] tool is one that was used to do something undreamed of by its author. -- S. C. Johnson
No reason for that to of happened. (Score:1)
Their quality control just flat sucks.
That file has been a problem before.
"AVG's Resident Shield Alert is detecting two infected files in my laptop: D:\Avira\AntiVir Desktop\FAILSAFE\aescript.dll and D:\Avira\AntiVir Desktop\aescript.dll and the infection is Trojan horse Generic 19.USQ."
http://forum.avira.com/wbb/index.php?page=Thread&postID=1004299 [avira.com]
Also why wouldn't they of used their own product as a final check before release.
It's like a copy protection removal program that's copy protected. It means