[Solved] OpenOffice 4.1.0 Setup IDP.Trojan.A8669E6C AVG 2014

[drnik110]

I am currently running OO 4.0.1 on Windows 8 Pro 64bit and saw the new version 4.1.0 was now available. However, when I downloaded and ran the 4.1.0 install then my AVG 2014 says it found IDP.Trojan.A8669E6C in the setup program and blocks the install. If I tell AVG to take the recommended action it fails to remove the Trojan. I booted my laptop into safe mode and did full system scan including Rootkit scans with both AVG 2014 and Spybot Search & Destroy 2.0, and they both find nothing. Is AVG reporting a false positive on this Trojan or is this a real problem with this install? Has anyone else had this problem? I would appreciate any help getting this issue fixed.

[RoryOF]

From which site did you download? What is name and size of the downloaded file?

[drnik110]

I went to www.openoffice.org and clicked the Download link. This sent me to SourceForge.net and downloaded it from superb-dca2.dl.sourceforge.net. The Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.0_Win_x86_install_en-US.exe file size is 137,609KB.

[RusselB]

I just downloaded the same file, with the same size, though I did forget to confirm that it came from the exact same sourceforge location.
Scanning it with AVG brought back the same message, however, I also scanned it with Avast, Microsoft Essentials and Malware Bytes, and they all gave it a clean rating.
So that's three out of four programs that showed the download as clean, and one that did not.
In my opinion, that's sufficient for it to be classified as a false positive.

[drnik110]

RusselB, Thanks for the quick turn around on this issue. If 3 out of 4 Malware scanners say it's OK, then I will temporarily disable AVG and run the install.

[floris v]

I didn't get any error message from AVG for the Dutch language version.

[drnik110]

I did temporarily disable AVG and successfully installed OO 4.1.0. I restarted and ran and AVG scan and everything seems ok. Thanks for everyone's feedback!