Virus in LabVIEW Package?

[hymelsr]

I have the 2009 FRC version of LabVIEW installed on my computer, and I just installed Avira AntiVir today. While scanning, it picked up the trojan "TR/Crypt.XPACK.Gen" located in C:\Program Files\National Instruments\RT Images\Utilities\BIOS Updater\10.3\7063\flashUpdate.exe

Please tell me that this is benign...if not, what do I need to do?

Thanks.

[StephenB]

There is no virus in the LabVIEW package. It looks like your anti virus software is very aggressive at looking for possible threats and has mistaken one of our files for a threat. If you look here: http://www.avira.com/en/threats/section/fulldetails/id_vir/3488/tr_crypt.xpack.gen.html

"A generic detection routine designed to detect common family characteristics shared in several variants.

This special detection routine was developed in order to detect unknown variants and will be enhanced continuously."

It describes that this is a routine does not look for a specific virus but for generic traits, which could lead it to mistake safe files for unsafe ones. As it did in this case.

[hymelsr]

Thank you! That has me really worried for a bit there.