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ConfEdit contains Virus!
Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 11:19 am
by Sascha
When I downloaded ConfEdit 1.0.1 from artsoft.org and I wanted to unpack it,
my AntiVir told me that there's a virus called 'TR/Dropper.Gen' in
C:\...\ConfEdit-1.0.1\ConfEdit\Help.exe .
Does anybody know anything about this?
Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 4:31 pm
by Holger
Yes: This is a so-called "false positive", which means that your (and also my own) instance of AntiVir was simply wrong about detecting a trojan horse in that exe file. But yes, it is quite disturbing at first. :-o
Many other people had similar problems with innocent exe files and that specific trojan horse, for example:
http://forum.avira.com/wbb/index.php?pa ... adID=72807
(You can find more when googling for it.)
So it seems that everything is fine with the ConfEdit package and files.
Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 11:51 am
by Sascha
So I can say: "Ignore", if my AnitVir asks me what do do?
That's good.
And I hope that this time ConfEdit works...
Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 3:44 am
by Davacardo
Spybot detects the "asycfilt.dll" file as SpyArsenal.Watcher, in case anyone else gets any false positives.