McAfee detecting "procguard.sys" as trojan

I have been using P.G. 3.150 full version for about 10 months now without a hitch. Then, this week McAfee started detecting the file "procguard.sys" as a trojan during typical virus scans. McAfee listed the trojan as
"New Malware.z". When I do a search nothing comes up.
Is this just a false positive? Any Ideas would be helpful.

 

"New Malware.Z" looks like generic/heuristic detection of McAfee. So this is most likely a false positive.

 

Almost certainly. Whenever you get a false positive it's important to send the file to the vendor so that they can strengthen their detection and prevent other customers from being mislead into thinking they're infected by a clean file.

Best regards,
Wayne

 

I have the same problem. I have been running processguard for several months. Last week Mcafee virusscan said this was a trojan but it could not clean or quarrentine the file. It wants me to delete the file but I think its an error so I won't delete it. I contacted Mcafee and the did not help with the problem.

C:\windows\system32\drivers\procguard.sys trojan name New Malware.Z

 

You say McAfee didn't help. Did you send them the file? And ask that they fix the false positive?

Zip the file, password protect it with something like "infected". Make sure you put the password in the email and then email it to:
virus_research@nai.com

It probably won't get fixed immediately so be patient for a bit.