Need help my pc's anti-virus has gone crazy

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#1 Gamerz1569
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Around 2 days ago after I updrated my Avira almost every time I accesss Internet Explorer Avira automatically detects a virus (or malware or adaware I dont know) called HTML/IFrame.Adyh but when I search its database no such virus exist its gotten pretty annoyingit keeps detecting it almost everytime I change pages in my browser.Is anyone else having this problem? and is repairable?

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#2 Blue-Sky
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I can't help you with your problem, but I can recommend some programs that have help'd me a lot.

Mozilla Firefox - Much safer browser than IE, exposed to less exploits
Malwarebytes - This thing found malware, that no other program could
Kaspersky Anti-Virus - Been virus free ever since I got it.

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#3 Gamerz1569
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This problem only seems to happen with Avira my other pc which has Norton doesn't seem to have that problem. I'll try Kapersky then.

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#4 Makari
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From the look of it, it's a virus/exploit that only McAfee and Avira have added definitions for. http://forum.avira.com/wbb/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=87898 Can't read german, but that chart about halfway down is clear enough. It was added on the 7th of April.
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#5 Sedrick12
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It almost seems like the Anit-Virus thing you got IS a virus O.o
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From the look of it, it's a virus/exploit that only McAfee and Avira have added definitions for. http://forum.avira.com/wbb/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=87898 Can't read german, but that chart about halfway down is clear enough. It was added on the 7th of April.Makari

Thanks for the link. Researched around the net looks like I'm not the only one with this problem with avira, may be they'll fix it I'm turning off my anti-virus. Ironic anti-viruses are supposed to help your system with the annoyance of viruses not the other way around

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You should take a look at Sandboxie. I run it, its a program that essentially runs program in a dimensionless sandbox. Any file that is opened while running a program under a sandbox stays within that sandbox. I run my browser in the sandbox and if I were to ever get a virus it wouldn't be allowed to install itself to my system 32 folder and cause any damage at all. It just installs it in C:/Eric/Sandbox. Then, I run CCleaner with it set to include that folder and the virus is wiped away without ever causing damage. Of course I still keep ESET NOD32 running in the background, as well as Comodo firewall. But its nice knowing that my computer is a veritable fortress.
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#9 Makari
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[QUOTE="Makari"]From the look of it, it's a virus/exploit that only McAfee and Avira have added definitions for. http://forum.avira.com/wbb/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=87898 Can't read german, but that chart about halfway down is clear enough. It was added on the 7th of April.Gamerz1569

Thanks for the link. Researched around the net looks like I'm not the only one with this problem with avira, may be they'll fix it I'm turning off my anti-virus. Ironic anti-viruses are supposed to help your system with the annoyance of viruses not the other way around

What other links are you finding about it? All I saw was that German link, where they seemed to think it may be a false positive and submitted it to Avira... yesterday, looks like. You can do the same thing they did in there - release the quarantined file, and check it with virustotal.com and see if it picks up anything. But given that Avira's got a better detection rate than all of the other AV's mentioned in this thread, it's odd that when it does find a problem, the general reaction of people is to try and find something else that won't detect the same virus without any research. I think it'd be much safer to throughly solve the problem, rather than essentially going 'lala I don't want to hear you!' when the A/V trips something consistently. Given that each A/V company also generally has their own name for a virus, if you just google for the name all you're going to find are Avira's hits on it. But yeah, given how many of the real viruses/trojans are the kind that to -not- announce their presence with popups and browser hijacks, it is an incredibly bad idea to go without any kind of A/V protection. It's not the worms that give a computer popups I'm worried about, it's the ones like bots that silently hijack your computer and let a third-party have free reign of it without telling you it's there. Unless you're doing something like TheSystemLord1 and locking down your computer from having any kind of permanent changes, or something like Deep Freeze... but yeah, even then, you should be keeping an eye on your documents and settings directory initially a bit more than system32, as most of the nasty stuff goes in there first as part of their newer Firefox-friendly installation scheme. :D