AVG Detects Virus In ITunes Software Or Is That A Trojan Small,Bog In Your Pocket And You Are Happy To See Me?
Saturday, July 25th, 2009
The Really: Got ITunes, check, got AVG Free active resident shield, check, got tons of pop ups saying the Trojan Small.Bog is infecting the Itunes folder and is being removed, check.
Zillions woke up today to see their AVG Free Resident Shield claim to remove a threat called Trojan Small.Bog from .dlls in the Itunes folder. The action prevents ITunes from working but is there really a virus at all?
If you remove ITunes you don’t get the threat removal (that’s no fun).
You can enter a path exception (assuming it is a false positive from yesterday’s definition update) in the resident shield of AVG but then you might be on the vanguard of a deadly computer virus (no fun).
As of now no word from the Apple or AVG. Isn’t part of that Palm Pre/ITunes dustup is it?
Here are some links so you don’t sit there wringing your hands.
The same thing is happening to me. I uninstalled itunes and reinstalled it… but while installing, the virus popped up again. Help!
I am pretty convinced this is a false positive and you can safely follow the instructions for an exception in the AVG Resident Shield:
First, you'll want to have your AVG software open to the main screen. Click Tools> Advanced Settings.
Under Resident Shield, you'll want to expand it and click the option "Exceptions."
Then click "Add Path," located on the top right of the screen. Choose your iTunes software folder, typically C:\Program Files\iTunes, or wherever you may have initially installed iTunes when your first set it up. Click on the iTunes folder and select "OK."
On the next screen, click "Apply." Then exit the AVG software.
After you have done this, give your computer a full restart. When the desktop comes up and Windows has loaded fully, you should be able to open up iTunes without any issues, now that the folder was added as an exception.