Trojan found in Adobe software?

I'm pretty sure this is a false positive, and sorry for posting about it here, I don't know where else do go. The setup of the support forums is confusing me.
Anyway, AVG Free detected a "Trojan horse Crypt.CFR" in Common Files/Adobe/Installer/and a bunch of numbers and letters/Setup.exe . From what I've read, there is no such thing as a "Trojan horse Crypt.CFR" and that this is probaby a false positive, but just to be on the safe side, I wonder if anyone else has experienced this and knows what to do.

The file that was detected and you deleted is setup.exe.
Go to your original install media or download-extract location and just copy that setup.exe to:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Installers\faf656ef605427ee2f42989c3ad31b8\setup.exe
that you deleted.
On my system, I am running the trial while waiting for the box to come, so that setup.exe is in:
C:\Users\Steve\Downloads\Adobe CS4\Photoshop\Adobe CS4
because I downloaded the .7z file containing the trial into my Downloads folder and ran its corresponding EXE from there.
These two setup.exe files are identical, at least in the trial version.
If you deleted all the files in the folder and not just the setup.exe, there are 8 DLLs and 4 folders within that same folder as contained the setup.exe, then you can probably just run the original installer, again and install over the top of what you have. If that also doesn't work, then maybe run the MSI-clean thing you already mentioned, and then re-run the original install.

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