AVG found a trojan in notepad++. SciLexer.dll. Notepad++ wont seem to work w/o it. Would this be a false positive?
AVG found a trojan in notepad++. SciLexer.dll. Notepad++ wont seem to work w/o it. Would this be a false positive?
If you downloaded it from the official site, I doubt very much it's a real threat.
Originally Posted by Adak
Trojans stick to anything - so its never really a shock when one appears on a scan. Even if you never download anything dodgy, and keep your pc top notch - you will still get one somtimes. Silly really, thankfully they are largly harmless.
Double Helix STL
Notepad++ is based on Scintilla, from which SciLexer.dll probably originates. I'm not having any problem with AVG 8 and Notepad++ (Or SciTE, also based on Scintilla).
What probably happened is some trojan out there used SciLexer.dll as well, and now it's got a bad rap. I had that happen with another open source package I installed along with my app.
AVG has unfortunately a high false positives rate. Higher than most.
Try to scan the file manually and to scan it without heuristics.
Originally Posted by brewbuck:
Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.
I've also found that AVG 8 seems to have a high false positive rate. Much higher than AVG 7. The other day I loaded up a game that would create 3 DLLs in the a documents and settings folder and AVG 8 flagged the dll as a trojan. After a bit of research I realized it was a false positive and simply told AVG to ignore the dll.
Googling dident seem to come up with much useful information. I was using the portable version then i downloaded the standard version, scanned it, and AVG said nothing about the scilexer.dll that came with it. So I'm just using that now instead.
Cheers.
