AVG update thinks iTunes is malware

Cleve Nettles
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July 25, 2009
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If you use AVG Anti-Virus on Windows (or on a Windows VM), you might want to disable it until they send out a patch for their latest update.  According to a rapidly filling Apple Support thread, the latest update flags iTunes.dll and iTunesRegistry.dll as "Trojan horse Small.BOG".  There isn't a listing for "Trojan horse Small.BOG" on AVG's website so the flag is somewhat strange.

Another work around is  to add "C:\Program Files (x86)\ipod" as an exception under Resident Shield>Manage Exceptions>Add Path.

Oh, right, you use Mac and haven't had anti-virus software in years? Via Slashdot

Comments (12)

Str1f3 (not verified) | July 26, 2009 - 12:12am

Ha! Windows makes me laugh. I just hope all those Windows users continue to say that Macs are overpriced and don't buy one. Meanwhile I get to browse the internet AV free and not have to worry about malware. Suckers!

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | July 26, 2009 - 2:15am

BAHAHAHA Windows crap shit dump garbage

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | July 26, 2009 - 9:43am

that isn't even a sentence or a coherent statement. At least make your contributions good or else go over to macrumors where fanboy comments like that are the norm and encouraged.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | July 26, 2009 - 2:36am

Is AVG Anti-virus owned by Palm? Perhaps this is just the latest salvo in the Palm Pre/iTunes battle.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | July 26, 2009 - 3:04am

This has nothing!! to with Windows you n00bs.
It's AVG who brings out crappy Virus definitions.

HAHA! I laugh at you, sitting in front of my Mac :-P

P.S. deactivating the AV is not a good idea, better deactivate the scanning of that single folder

Str1f3 (not verified) | July 27, 2009 - 12:02am

Um idiot, the reason AVG is on there is because of Windows. This continually happens with AV software and because of this (amongst a million other things) Windows will always be the problem.

It's also funny that you say not to deactivate the AV. Welcome to the he'll that is Windows.

Nate (not verified) | July 26, 2009 - 5:05am

Hmm, I forgot that people still had software like that. *Grins and goes back to being productive while laughing at all the crap Windows users have to put up with*

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | July 26, 2009 - 8:02am

Brilliant ! :-)

Jensonb (not verified) | July 26, 2009 - 11:21am

Technically, yes. It doesn't require the Quick Time Player though.

Lloyd Borrett (not verified) | July 26, 2009 - 11:32pm

Unfortunately, a recent virus database update resulted in iTunes being detected as a Trojan by AVG security products. We can confirm that it was a false alarm. AVG immediately released a new virus database update (definition file 270.13.29/2260) that corrected this issue.

For details of how to fix the problem, please see http://www.avg.com.au/index.cfm?section=support&action=tech_bulletins&fe...

Sylvester Malus (not verified) | July 27, 2009 - 1:11am

Though most of the people here are probably Mac-users and therefore not audience to tour message, it's excellent that you post it here. Kudos!

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | July 27, 2009 - 4:43am

I monitor and run a windows fleet by day...we use CA Etrust AV and it misses one or two malware/viruses every 4-6 months on average. Each miss can cause a huge amount of cleanup work. At least with a false positive you can contact them and say it's a false positive...and if you run a corporate network you can choose to deploy a policy that "ignores" said false positive.

If it's the other way around...no detection but results in an infection. Good luck and hope your overtime pay is good.

I run Macs at home for many reasons... a really nice side effect is that we needn't worry 24/7 about malware.