The latest IMVU release in triggering a virus alert in the latest AVG.
Apparently, the problem is that a particular trojan horse is written in Python and uses py2exe to build its exes, just like IMVU do.
When the people at AVG found out about this trojan horse, they made a signature for it that catches the trojan, but also unfortunately catches every other program that uses py2exe.
Here's the results from VirusTotal.com
Complete scanning result of "IMVUClient.exe", received in VirusTotal at 05.26.2007, 04:25:49 (CET).
Antivirus Version Update Result
AhnLab-V3 2007.5.24.0 05.25.2007 no virus found
AntiVir 7.4.0.27 05.25.2007 no virus found
Authentium 4.93.8 05.23.2007 no virus found
Avast 4.7.997.0 05.25.2007 no virus found
AVG 7.5.0.467 05.25.2007 PSW.Generic4.KTX
BitDefender 7.2 05.26.2007 no virus found
CAT-QuickHeal 9.00 05.25.2007 no virus found
ClamAV devel-20070416 05.25.2007 no virus found
DrWeb 4.33 05.25.2007 no virus found
eSafe 7.0.15.0 05.24.2007 no virus found
eTrust-Vet 30.7.3665 05.26.2007 no virus found
Ewido 4.0 05.25.2007 no virus found
FileAdvisor 1 05.26.2007 no virus found
Fortinet 2.85.0.0 05.26.2007 no virus found
F-Prot 4.3.2.48 05.25.2007 no virus found
F-Secure 6.70.13030.0 05.25.2007 no virus found
Ikarus T3.1.1.8 05.25.2007 no virus found
Kaspersky 4.0.2.24 05.26.2007 no virus found
McAfee 5039 05.25.2007 no virus found
Microsoft 1.2503 05.26.2007 no virus found
NOD32v2 2292 05.25.2007 no virus found
Norman 5.80.02 05.25.2007 no virus found
Panda 9.0.0.4 05.25.2007 no virus found
Prevx1 V2 05.26.2007 no virus found
Sophos 4.18.0 05.25.2007 no virus found
Sunbelt 2.2.907.0 05.24.2007 no virus found
Symantec 10 05.26.2007 no virus found
TheHacker 6.1.6.123 05.25.2007 no virus found
VBA32 3.12.0 05.26.2007 no virus found
VirusBuster 4.3.23:9 05.25.2007 no virus found
Webwasher-Gateway 6.0.1 05.26.2007 no virus found
So there you have it, it's still safe to update IMVU. I only hope that the guys at AVG get to update so that it doesn't flag IMVU or other 'innocent' py2exe programs.
The latest IMVU release in triggering a virus alert in the latest AVG.
Apparently, the problem is that a particular trojan horse is written in Python and uses py2exe to build its exes, just like IMVU do.
When the people at AVG found out about this trojan horse, they made a signature for it that catches the trojan, but also unfortunately catches every other program that uses py2exe.
Here's the results from VirusTotal.com
Complete scanning result of "IMVUClient.exe", received in VirusTotal at 05.26.2007, 04:25:49 (CET).
Antivirus Version Update Result
AhnLab-V3 2007.5.24.0 05.25.2007 no virus found
AntiVir 7.4.0.27 05.25.2007 no virus found
Authentium 4.93.8 05.23.2007 no virus found
Avast 4.7.997.0 05.25.2007 no virus found
AVG 7.5.0.467 05.25.2007 PSW.Generic4.KTX
BitDefender 7.2 05.26.2007 no virus found
CAT-QuickHeal 9.00 05.25.2007 no virus found
ClamAV devel-20070416 05.25.2007 no virus found
DrWeb 4.33 05.25.2007 no virus found
eSafe 7.0.15.0 05.24.2007 no virus found
eTrust-Vet 30.7.3665 05.26.2007 no virus found
Ewido 4.0 05.25.2007 no virus found
FileAdvisor 1 05.26.2007 no virus found
Fortinet 2.85.0.0 05.26.2007 no virus found
F-Prot 4.3.2.48 05.25.2007 no virus found
F-Secure 6.70.13030.0 05.25.2007 no virus found
Ikarus T3.1.1.8 05.25.2007 no virus found
Kaspersky 4.0.2.24 05.26.2007 no virus found
McAfee 5039 05.25.2007 no virus found
Microsoft 1.2503 05.26.2007 no virus found
NOD32v2 2292 05.25.2007 no virus found
Norman 5.80.02 05.25.2007 no virus found
Panda 9.0.0.4 05.25.2007 no virus found
Prevx1 V2 05.26.2007 no virus found
Sophos 4.18.0 05.25.2007 no virus found
Sunbelt 2.2.907.0 05.24.2007 no virus found
Symantec 10 05.26.2007 no virus found
TheHacker 6.1.6.123 05.25.2007 no virus found
VBA32 3.12.0 05.26.2007 no virus found
VirusBuster 4.3.23:9 05.25.2007 no virus found
Webwasher-Gateway 6.0.1 05.26.2007 no virus found
File size: 40456 bytes
MD5: d0f860fbb78d52f640475749f92734d1
SHA1: f60294564b7a07df712a1c7b6840e1c78624e166
So there you have it, it's still safe to update IMVU. I only hope that the guys at AVG get to update so that it doesn't flag IMVU or other 'innocent' py2exe programs.