You did exactly what I would expect anyone to do, if you smell smoke pull the fire alarm.

Thank you for reporting. Thank you even more for following up!

Have an awesome day!

By the By you have used some of the best posting technique i have ever seen...
almost as if you wrote How To Ask Questions The Smart Way

PS, just to be double certain I even scanned the pack using VirusTotal and clean bill of health throughout

RE: I don't know how else you could double check the LAN pack.

As suggested, the best way to deal with this, and put all of our minds at ease, is for you submit the specific file that was flagged to Avast for review. I am sure they have a procedure for this... and since you are their customer you should be supported.
alternately you could link them to the packs download...

A copy of your report from Avast (either clean or dirty) will put us all on the right track.

It never hurts to be careful and vigilant.

Thank you for Reporting it makes DriverPacks better for everyone.

We are now waiting for your response from Avast support...
If they are the first ones to identify this threat then perhaps we may see some new fans for Avast.
There are not many now because of its past history with providing false positives.
the only thing worse than a positive is a false positive . because it wastes huge amounts of time.
Some other popular scanners are also known for wasting our time quite often and are also not used by many of us.

one of two things will result
a. we have a nasty we need to address
b. they have a definition that needs updated.

We are in a holding pattern waiting for your trouble ticket with avast to be answered.
We are unable, internaly, to confirm your report useing other scanners...
Avast is the only avenue that I am aware of to get a resolution at this point.

I agree the coinsidence is huge and worthy of our full attention.
however many of us host sites too...
Me for example, who has every pack ever relelased extracted on his machine.
none of my machines or servers has been compromized - not ever for that matter.
although I do often have some fun with the IPs that appear more than a few thousand times in my logs.
You would be amazed how many would be hackers out there who don't use proxy or a zombie.
Mmmm... script kiddy its whats for dinner...

PS I almost never load a machine with the network cable connected.
(Except on a well protected private corporate network with hardware and software firewalls Including gateway and per machine virus scanning)
It is almost impossable to load a machine these days without getting a virus during the installation , if direct internet access is available to the machine. No protection is in place during this time and patches may not yet be applied.

If we do have a nasty then we would like to know ASAP, Will you continue to help us to help you?

Jeff

Just completed scans.
DriverPack LAN 8.12.1 -- Clean
DriverPack LAN 9.09.04 -- Clean
Used both Eset NOD32 and Symantec Endpoint Security (both updated to latest engines/defs).

Now as I say, I can't put the LAN pack at fault for the virus we received but as this has never happened to us before I'm merely going on circumstances, that being when I integrated the LAN pack into a new build of XP yesterday and rebuilt my machine we all of a sudden had our main site taken down and compromised.   Our host has confirmed that in his experience the problem could only have been caused by "a trojan/virus has obtained your FTP password and as such your files have been downloaded+modified+uploaded".

Our index file was downloaded and uploaded again in a matter of 3 seconds and many files on the server were modified to render the site useless.   They also attempted to include an iFrame in the site to potentially send our members viruses or redirect them to an undesireable site but they basically made a complete ass of things, bottom line is the succeeded in causing us grief.

I don't know how else you could double check the LAN pack and I understand it's obviously checked and used by many many people but in my case I can't put the Trojan down to anything else, I've trawled my own movements and can't recall any such warning on my AV for a long time - I sincerely hope it proves not to be the LAN pack but I thought I'd update you anyway, just in case.

Cheers
Marko

since the DriverPacks are worked on and then tested by a large team and then released to a large audience Many different virus scanners get a crack at the packs at every stage of development and release... if only one AV program is reporting a result then there is a 99.99 percent likelyhood that it is a false positive.

On the other hand there are hundreds of new viruses and trojans each month...
There is the .01 percent chance that your AV / defs is the first one to be able to detect it... 

I would submit to them for review... why take our word for it?... go straight to the source and get the poop.
it would be even better if you could reply here that they responded to you taht they thought it was a false positive.
then you have saved not only yourself, but others in your situation. (they update the definitions for everyone)
"Help us to help you" is the spirit of DriverPacks, a spirit you obviously share with us.

I would have seemed a little daft if I had simply dissmissed you without considering the .01 probablity and anounced there was no virus... and then got bitten by that .01 LOL

Well Done! Excellent report!

Welcome to DriverPacks and we are glad you're here!

PS you never told us which LAN pack version?

Hope that helps
Cheers
Marko

Thanks for reporting!

Welcome to DriverPacks and have a great day.

PS which definition version gave the false positive... (date/ver)