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January 29, 2008

PROB: AVG anti-virus FALSELY detects LuxRiot DVR’s DVRServer.exe as ‘Downloader.Swizzor’ virus

Filed under: Support — Tags: , , — roman @ 5:40 pm

The information applies to:

  • LuxRiot up to 1.2.x and more recent

Symptoms

Starting January, 28 AVG anti-virus installations that updated their databases online with new signatures or fresh installations might start FALSELY report LuxRiot DVR’s server side running executable DVRServer.exe as a ‘Downloader.Swizzor’ virus due to a problem/collision/confusion in anti-virus database.

Resolution

Grisoft, developer of AVG anti-virus,  has confirmed that detection was false and updated AVG virus definitions. Thus an update of AVG database should solve the problem. Before this or if an update is impossible such a false detection may be disabled using AVG anti-virus settings.

Please note that anti-virus software may have significant impact on DVR performance and consider disabling anti-virus on a highly loaded DVR system (you might wish to at least compare the DVR performance with and without anti-virus).

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