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conhost.exe - Virus

Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2012 3:59 pm
by Orwellian
I managed to run this for about 30mins after downloading it, but now, when I run it again, AVG tells me it's a moderate threat and says I should quarantine it.
I checked the details and it says the threat is conhost.exe, which I googled. It seems to be okay, but I just wanted to check if anyone else has had this experience?
This couldn't contain malware, could it?

Re: conhost.exe - Virus

Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2012 5:32 pm
by demonix
Orwellian wrote:AVG tells me it's a moderate threat and says I should quarantine it.
One thing you should do is to get rid of that placebo of an antivirus since it always does crap like this (take it from a former AVG user that ended up getting hit with the false positive affects of this program).

As far as I'm aware conhost.exe has nothing to do with allowing the game to run, and if the file is running from windows/system32 then it's perfectly safe and it's that heap of shit you're using to protect your computer that should be quarantined.