AVG Anti-virus False Positive???

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  1. VistaKing
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    Summerbear5 said:
    What is Microsoft Security Essentials?
    Is Microsoft's free Antivirus . I believe it uses the same engine that Windows Defender uses..
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  3. Summerbear5
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    ok I am going to download that one and run a scan to see. Thanks.
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  4. VistaKing
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    Summerbear5 ,

    Every time you restart your PC the sp.sys changes its name ?
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    I don't know if it's everytime I restart. I will check and get back to you. What does that mean if it does? I know in Alcohol 120% there is something in there that every time the computer starts it remounts images or something like that. I have no images currently in the list though.
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  7. VistaKing
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    Alcohol 12% and other CD emulators use a driver called sptd.sys . I believe that has something to do with it. If you restart your PC and run the AVG scan one more time the sp.sys file that was found before will be another name. I'd personally remove Alcohol and then run the tool I provided to remove the SPTD.sys file . See what you get when you rerun the AVG scan.
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  8. Summerbear5
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    As I said I don't want to uninstall Alcohol 120%. It is a program I use often. I already disabled it with the program Cotton gave me and ran an AVG scan and it was gone. So therefore I'm simply going to add the 2 infections in AVG to the exceptions list.

    It's not that I'm having a problem with the infections I just wanted to be sure they were false positive.

    Infact AVG I read from the past had a definitions update that did this before. AVG corrected the false positive and all was well.

    Thank you for your help though I appreciate all your suggestions...
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  10. VistaKing
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    Glad you fixed your issue
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  11. Summerbear5
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    Microsoft Security Scan Results...
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  12. VistaKing
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    Summerbear5

    If you want to remove AVG ? Use the removal tool link below

    Download tools and utilities | AVG Worldwide

    Choose the version you have and download the tool and remove AVG .
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  13. Summerbear5
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    no I don't want to remove it, Thank you.
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