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Acronis True Image 2012. My Avast antivirus has detected Malware

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Dear friends,

My version of Avast Antivirus has detected some malware within the Acronis program and I'm not sure how to handle this; there are many false warnings coming from antivirus programs, but being my Acronis Backup such an important process to me, I just wonder if any of you have received similar warnings and how you treated them.

If you look in the options I get from the antivirus, I can delete the offending item, move, repair or ignore. I chose to ignore it for the time being, but I need to know if this can or is a certain false warning or on the contrary if I should remove the "icut381.dat" file.

Please check the screen shot I include and send me some feedback.

Best regards,

Spanish Flyer

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I would suggest that you run a different virus scanner (at least one, but possibly two or more) before assuming that you have a virus in the Acronis file. If you do in fact have a virus in this file, you would need to do a repair install of your Acronis True Image product after removing ALL traces of the virus from your system.
I think this is probably a false positive, but better safe then sorry.

@spanishflyer,
Virus definitions and hueristics can sometimes cause valid (safe) files to be incorrrectly identified as potential threats. If it is a false positive, you should also be able to add the files being detected incorrectly to an exception or ignore list.

IIRC, Avast incorrectly identified ATI as a virus several years ago. After a few such reports, Avast staff admitted the bug in their forum, and corrected the issue in a later update.

You might want to post about this in the Avast forum.