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Virus warning in installer?

TumblerTumbler Posts: 323
edited 2010-08-01 13:36 in General Discussion
Hello,

I donwloaded the BASIC Stamp Editor v2.4.2.msi from parallax twice, and while installing i always have a virus warning (Trojan.generic.957694) even on a clean windows platform.
What is going on here?

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  • Chris SavageChris Savage Parallax Engineering Posts: 14,406
    edited 2009-02-02 19:26
    Tumbler,

    As far as I know you are the only person reporting such an error. What AV software are you using?

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  • TumblerTumbler Posts: 323
    edited 2009-02-02 20:10
    Chris,

    As you can see, the warning appears at the end of the install.
    I just had a clean windows setup. cry.gif

    I'm using Bitdefender Internet security 2008 (Payed version)
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  • Chris SavageChris Savage Parallax Engineering Posts: 14,406
    edited 2009-02-02 21:34
    It's interesting...a quick Google search seems to indicate the software has somewhat of a history of reporting false positives. Note especially the third link where several programs are falsely being reported. At first I was thinking it was a hueristic detection issue. Some programs improperly identify something as a virus if it makes certain changes to your registry. But I had never heard of your AV software so the first thing I did was a lookup on false positives. My guess is that is what it is. Of course, I tried to look at their forums, but they are down. =(

    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&newwindow=1&safe=off&q=bitdefender+false+positive

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  • JamesDoughertyJamesDougherty Posts: 48
    edited 2009-02-02 22:40
    It is a false positive and that software is known for that as Chris mentioned. I assure you that many more people would be on here talking about it if there was a virus in there.

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  • UghaUgha Posts: 543
    edited 2009-02-02 23:13
    False positives are a pain.

    For the past 11 years or so I've owned and ran a MUD (a text based adventure game like World of Warcraft but with text only, no graphics) on port 2000 of a server.
    In that mud we had an Insane Asylum as one of the areas a player could visit and explore... unfortunately Norton Antivirus triggers when it receives the word Insane (Capitalized)
    on port 2000 so I had to go through and rewrite a lot of the MUD's basecode to automatically filter all mentions of the word Insane.

    Antivirus programs are essential, but I just wish they'd do more research into these false positives so they would cause less problems.
  • TumblerTumbler Posts: 323
    edited 2009-02-03 05:09
    Hmmm, interesting...
    I'v googled for some info earlier, but didn't find something about false positives. I will take a look at the bitdefender forums later.
    Thx
  • sam_sam_samsam_sam_sam Posts: 2,286
    edited 2009-02-05 02:07
    Tumbler,
    I have a program that like to do that as well ·called Unblue Registry Booter

    It dose not like the fact that when you write Basic Stamp file that you do not save it shows up as a file error
    I just know to ignore these warning

    Some·program like this will allow you exclude a program like BASIC Stamp Editor v2.4.2.that you know dose not
    virus and it will allow you to ·ignore those file

    You try this or turn off Bitdefender while installing BASIC Stamp Editor v2.4.2 and that should work

    I hope this works

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  • UnknownUnknown
    edited 2010-07-05 15:19
    Viruses and spyware may only stop if there is a user movement to prosecute and to give out fines.

    I'm using the paid version of Malwarebytes which stops most internet installs of viruses.

    I have a theory that viruses, spyware, and malware are written by three kinds of people:

    1) Spammers to keep a spammer network

    2) Antivirus software sellers

    3) Owners of big companies that want control of user's computers

    I've received viruses while using Norton 360 and Comodo Internet Security.· I can't even click on Wikipedia's links without being attacked by Malware.
  • HollyMinkowskiHollyMinkowski Posts: 1,398
    edited 2010-07-05 15:50
    I named my windows box "HoneyPot"
    Registered to "HoneyPot"
    And haven't had an attack since wink.gif

    LoL

    Seriously, there is just no way there is a virus
    in a Parallax installer.
  • Oldbitcollector (Jeff)Oldbitcollector (Jeff) Posts: 8,091
    edited 2010-07-05 15:56
    Replace your Bitdefender with a copy of Avast and get your ocmputer's resources back.

    There is no perfect virus protection, but you can do better than what you are currently running.

    OBC

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  • HollyMinkowskiHollyMinkowski Posts: 1,398
    edited 2010-07-05 16:08
    I use Avast.

    Every once in a while it scares me though!

    That woman yells out "Your virus definitions have been updated!"

    (I keep my volume up to high) smile.gif
  • Oldbitcollector (Jeff)Oldbitcollector (Jeff) Posts: 8,091
    edited 2010-07-05 16:13
    @Holly,

    Right-click on your Avast icon (near the clock) and set it for Silent/Gaming mode.

    OBC

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  • HollyMinkowskiHollyMinkowski Posts: 1,398
    edited 2010-07-05 16:35
    Thanks Oldbitcollector!

    I did just that smile.gif
  • ME01ME01 Posts: 1
    edited 2010-07-29 12:53
    HI;norton internet security is the nine in top ten best antiviruses [noparse][[/noparse]/url=http://www.best-antivirus.co/best antivirus software] and you must update it in order not to have any problems
    hope it was usefull
  • skylightskylight Posts: 1,915
    edited 2010-07-29 18:18
    I wonder who commissioned that survey? smilewinkgrin.gif

    I used Avast for many years now after finding Norton, McAfee and AVG to be resource hungry hogs

    Norton Internet Security was running when i got a nasty virus, I got rid of the software after having contacted

    Nortons customer care complaining I had just renewed the annual fee and what were they going to do about it

    they said i could pay another extortionate fee on top and they'd attempt to remove the virus

    their answer to "I've already paid for protection" was ·"no antivirus is perfect"! shocked.gif
  • kf4ixmkf4ixm Posts: 529
    edited 2010-08-01 13:36
    Three letters and one word...
    AVG Free. I've used it for years, it's picked up stuff nortons and mcafee ignores and it doesn't slow down your system after 6 months worth of updates. Just my $0.02 worth.

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