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OpenDNS Updater Triggering AV Alerts

If you use AVG Anti-virus you may have had it warn you that opendns updater.exe is infected with a trojan horse. This appears to be false. Update your AVG client and see if it continues to report an infection.

If the built in heuristic routines still report a problem you can stop AVG from complaining by:

1. Right-click on AVG icon located in taskbar and open the AVG User Interface
2. Choose Tools, Advanced Options
3. Highlight PUP Exceptions
4. Click add exception
5. Browse to the opendns updater.exe file, select it and click ok
6. Close AVG

If AVG has already quarantined your opendns updater.exe file:

1. Right-click on AVG icon located in taskbar and open the AVG User Interface
2. Choose History, Virus Vault
3. Highlight the entry containing opendns updater.exe
4. Click the Restore button, then click OK
5. Close AVG

Your system should now work - if the OpenDNS icon is complaining right click on the OpenDNS Updater icon in the taskbar:



Left click on Run Update, the result should be:



Also left click on Check Version, the result should be:



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