Trojan Horse in AVG driver update

Viruses & Threats
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Appreciate your patience, Richard.

We'd like to confirm that this site http://www.driverupdate.net/ is safe and only Malwarebytes is flagging it. You can check the results here https://www.virustotal.com/#/url/6d5b7e6584fd82698aeee2e448a9c1e303710d51aa3f087cb9119880017b4797/detection.

And, it is not our domain but our partner's.

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Forgot to say that Malwarebytes reports the connections and blocks them, but when I did have a pop-up window of yours for updating drivers it would never complete, like it was keeping an open connection to monitor my activity

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I also am receiving this issue:
User-added image

Is there a Trojan horse or something else?

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Hi Richard,

We will certainly check this for you.

Please share us the screenshot of the the threat detection pop up from Malwarebytes program to check and assist you further.

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My Malwarebytes virus protection blocks the latest AVG Driver update stating the update contains a Trojan horse.  Is there a Trojan horse or something else?

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Appreciate your patience, Richard.

We'd like to confirm that this site http://www.driverupdate.net/ is safe and only Malwarebytes is flagging it. You can check the results here https://www.virustotal.com/#/url/6d5b7e6584fd82698aeee2e448a9c1e303710d51aa3f087cb9119880017b4797/detection.

And, it is not our domain but our partner's.

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Hi Richard,

We will certainly check this for you.

Please share us the screenshot of the the threat detection pop up from Malwarebytes program to check and assist you further.

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Forgot to say that Malwarebytes reports the connections and blocks them, but when I did have a pop-up window of yours for updating drivers it would never complete, like it was keeping an open connection to monitor my activity

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I also am receiving this issue:
User-added image

Is there a Trojan horse or something else?

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Hello Jeff,
We are here to help you. The website www.driverupdater.com is not our host. You can click here to find our Driver Updater page.
Regards,
Alok.

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My mistake… it is download.driverupdate.net.
If this is your host, how do I stop this service as my Dell PC is kept up to date by Dell themselves
Regards
Jeff

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Thank you for the screenshot, Narelle. 

It's a false positive and we recommend you to contact Malware Bytes or add AVG Driver Updater in the exception list of MalwareBytes.