Bkav software is mistakenly recognized as malicious code

A VnExpress reader received a warning from the Avast anti-virus tool developed by ALWIL Software (Czech) that the Bkav2006 version contained the dangerous code Win32 Virus-IJ.

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Photo: Vo Hung Vi.

Representative of Hanoi University of Technology's Security Center said that this is another case of anti-virus software that mistook a legitimate application as malicious code and would contact the company that issued Avast to request error correction.

This confusion sometimes occurs as Windows Live OneCare alerts Gmail with BAT / BWG.A worm, AVG Antivirus tool places ZoneAlarm in Trojan, Norton Antivirus blocks Windows XP files, McAfee considers Microsoft Excel as deep The computer and the world's largest software group also rated Skype as adware (adware) .