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Spyware in new Caravelle! (Read 1736 times)

Aug 5^th, 2008 at 5:42pm

MrJake2002 Offline
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Just a heads up, the new Caravelle packages use an exe which is infected with "not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.Eshopper"

Pity, it looked like a good-un! Sad

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Reply #1 - Aug 12^th, 2008 at 4:18pm

pete Offline
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I'm very surprised as this comes from AFG - one of the most respected & professional FS design teams ..... I'll check it out ....

Thanks

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Reply #2 - Aug 15^th, 2008 at 7:10am

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Any new info on this matter?

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Reply #3 - Aug 16^th, 2008 at 7:52pm

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B*gger! Saw it, downloaded it, loved it, posted shots of it....AVG never caught anything, looking further into this Sad

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Reply #4 - Aug 22^nd, 2008 at 10:22am

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Many times these kinds of things are "false positives", as the antivirus software definition files are not "honed" tightly to a particular signature. It then confuses legitimate software with the suspect virus. When these "virus reports" suddenly disappear (antivirus software finds it one day and then does not the next) ...... it usually means that the error has been caught by the antivirus developer and the newly issued update corrects the false positive.

Pete's looking into things ... rest assured if it is real ... it will get fixed.

best,

................john

« Last Edit: Aug 22^nd, 2008 at 5:23pm by JBaymore »

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Reply #5 - Aug 22^nd, 2008 at 3:27pm

pete Offline
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Yup I scanned all the AFG Caravelles with scanzilla it & found nothing - forgot about it. (AFG are very professional people) I again scanned it today with adaware & again clean. What program are you using?

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Reply #6 - Aug 22^nd, 2008 at 9:06pm