Comments on: Heur.Pck.MEW – Comodo False Positive!

By: Olymoon

Olymoon — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 10:48:22 +0000

Thanks to your blog i have stoped deleting important files, due to comodo fals report… Of course i am quiet hungry with this as i have allready deleted good programs installers….. i JUST FELT A DOUBT WHEN I SAW SO MANY Heur.Pck.MEW REPORTED AND SOME ADOBE PLUGINS AS VIRUSES
I used avast before, but it is too heavy, my machine gets too slow…
THANK YOU

By: sue

sue — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:48:58 +0000

Thank you very much for the information.
I turned it off as you showed.
I had trouble finding out anything from Comodo
and I have been using it a long time. The programs -gary, aulogics, I believe are fine.
I don’t understand why Comodo doesn’t address the problem faster, fix it or at least tell people what is going on.

By: Doug

Doug — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:12:10 +0000

I ran into the heuristics problem, too. It’s telling me a driver in an old address label package I still use – VCL30.DPL – had the heur.pck.MEW virus, along with a few other random files, mostly drivers in the ..\system32\ folder. I disabled Heuristic Scanning/Level until they get it fixed.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:18:30 +0000

I’ve had a few more items reported as Heur.Pck.MEW. So, as you’ve done, I’ve switched off Heuristics scanning now.

One of the reasons I dumped Avast is due to the manual scanning. Rather than complete scanning and then reporting the dodgy files it stops and waits for me to tell it what to do. When I used the screen saver scanner (which was a great idea) I knew I couldn’t leave my PC alone to scan as it would never complete!!

I disliked AVG from the moment it told me that ZoneAlarm was malware. I don’t like Norton’s dumbing down and resource hogging, plus it blocked Outlook. As for McAfee, I have tried a few iterations and have always found it would crash after half an hour or use.

I’ll stick with Comodo for now, but keep Heuristics off.

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By: pelokee

pelokee — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:36:22 +0000

In my opinion, the problem is the new heuristics scanner that was included in the 2/12/09 release of CIS. I’m not sure what changed in the 2/19/09 release, but we all seem to be seeing these false positives starting with the latest release.

By: John

John — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 07:57:08 +0000

I have this too. It’s located in AuslogicsDefrag. It’s in quarantine now. So what’s the problem?

By: pelokee

pelokee — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 03:12:59 +0000

It’s funny you mention that because I used Avast for about a year before I switched to AVG. And then I switched to Norton when I bought a few PC’s that came with it. And I even used ClamWin for a while until stumbling upon Comodo. As I was reading up on this alert earlier, I kept running into comments that were recommending switching to Avast. I think it may be wise to keep two or three vendors in mind and rotate through them routinely.

I have yet to hear back from Comodo (at this point, I’m guessing that they just update their defs if the file you send them turns out to be a FP or a real virus), so we’ll see how long it takes to resolve.

I think I’ll give Avast another spin in tandem with Comodo and see how far it has come since I last used it.

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 23:00:53 +0000

Getting the same thing with TuneUp Utilities 2007. I’ve been using Avast for the past 3 years and have never had any problems with it. Then I finally decide to take the plunge with CIS and it decides that TU2007 (which is similar to Glary) is a virus and proceeds to lock up my PC.

I’m beginning to regret uninstalling Avast now