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graylox on "1 out of every 14 programs downloaded from the web - later confirmed as malware."

graylox — Tue, 24 May 2011 23:07:33 +0000

May 24, 2011
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http://www.dilbert.com/2011-05-24/

Anonymous on "1 out of every 14 programs downloaded from the web - later confirmed as malware."

Anonymous — Mon, 23 May 2011 17:13:51 +0000

ps sorry nice clean Wabbit! :)

BentlyTCow on "1 out of every 14 programs downloaded from the web - later confirmed as malware."

BentlyTCow — Mon, 23 May 2011 10:54:49 +0000

I wouldn't put it past him :)

Anonymous on "1 out of every 14 programs downloaded from the web - later confirmed as malware."

Anonymous — Sun, 22 May 2011 21:33:57 +0000

GOTD is always completely clean, apart from some of the jokes on the forum, . . . or if WR hasn't washed behind his huge Wabbit ears lately LOL!

By way of the thread title Microsoft's definition of malware probably (as in does!) include the many various toolbars classed as adware, torrent P2P files, many keygens and such-like most of which is completely harmless! I would guess a HUGE proportion of MS's ratio link to false positives!

From researching free games, a supposedly notorious risk (ROFL!! :)) I doubt that 1 in 10000 downloads might carry any risk, and Google now seems not to list sites that have a known drive-by download risk. If you use AVG link scanner you can also almost entirely avoid any sites that link to malware. Some older games get false flagged as positives too. Comodo/AVG have sometimes listed Gamehouse downloader as malware simply because it accesses the Internet from your computer to download the Gamehouse game! And you can't get more innocuous and innocent than that!

It was riskier previously to search for free games downloads, but with modern firewalls and Windows updates, and good AV programs, any risk is very minimal, and there are many more good (safe!) sites out there these days.

PS has Beta anything to do with beta-carotene as found in carrots sniff sniff ?! Does this mean WR himself is still in Beta? !

Whiterabbit-uk on "1 out of every 14 programs downloaded from the web - later confirmed as malware."

Whiterabbit-uk — Sun, 22 May 2011 00:58:23 +0000

HaHa, that is so funny.

BentlyTCow on "1 out of every 14 programs downloaded from the web - later confirmed as malware."

BentlyTCow — Sat, 21 May 2011 02:14:08 +0000

Unfortunately he has not responded to Carrotine(TM).

That's because it's still in beta.

Anonymous on "1 out of every 14 programs downloaded from the web - later confirmed as malware."

Anonymous — Sat, 21 May 2011 01:46:40 +0000

Thanks Whiterabbit-uk You right most of the GOTD are clean and as you say turned out to be false positives.
I hope They take the links so they under stand it on the WWW, I don't download all like I did not good, by the way do you know some ware I can download the is good & clean ?

pavid on "1 out of every 14 programs downloaded from the web - later confirmed as malware."

pavid — Fri, 20 May 2011 20:51:54 +0000

Yep that's right. The ONLY thing infected on the Giveaway site is our dear old rabbit!!! Unfortunately he has not responded to Carrotine(TM).

Whiterabbit-uk on "1 out of every 14 programs downloaded from the web - later confirmed as malware."

Whiterabbit-uk — Fri, 20 May 2011 10:22:15 +0000

Hi Hotdog, I've re-worded your thread title slightly because it may have implied to some community members that giveaways from this site came under that category.

For those new to the giveaway project, the giveaway team carry out rigorous tests using several security programs to ensure that all giveaways are free from malware. You may occasionally see someone posting that they think a particular program is infected becasue their security software says it is. This has always turned out to be false positives.

Anonymous on "1 out of every 14 programs downloaded from the web - later confirmed as malware."

Anonymous — Fri, 20 May 2011 06:09:37 +0000

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/05/17/smartscreen-174-application-reputation-in-ie9.aspx

Windows 7 Only IE 9

1 out of every 14 programs downloaded is later confirmed as malware.

http://blog.chromium.org/2011/04/protecting-users-from-malicious.html

Google search and browsers such as Google Chrome, Firefox, and Safari to warn users who may attempt to visit these dangerous webpages.

Anonymous on "Google Earth & Google chrome-spyware"

Anonymous — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 04:24:14 +0000

http://encyclopedia2.tfd.com/Spyware

spyware transmits information in the background, Not in the Readme !!
For example, it might say that the program performs anonymous profiling.

http://www.tfd.com/Spyware

1. Software that secretly gathers information about a person or organization.

2-SHEDS on "Google Earth & Google chrome-spyware"

2-SHEDS — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:44:11 +0000

Google Spyware? I'm stunned.

Lester (Chip) on "Google Earth & Google chrome-spyware"

Lester (Chip) — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:50:53 +0000

lol it's not spyware. I use Google Chrome and love it's speed. Many programs allow you to optionally send usage statistics nowadays. It's the results of these statistics that help them figure out what needs to be fixed in future updates.

Anonymous on "Google Earth & Google chrome-spyware"

Anonymous — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:51:22 +0000

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/03/microsoft-google-chrome-doesn-your-privacy-microsoft-google-chrome-doesnt-respect-your-privacy.ars

Microsoft: Google Chrome doesn't respect your privacy
"Watch a demo on how Google Chrome collects every keystroke you make and how Internet Explorer 8 keeps your information private through two address bars and In Private browsing."
See for yourself: download Fiddler and type something into the address bar on Chrome and watch how Fiddler reacts when you have Search Suggestions on and off. Then do the same in both IE8 fields.

Anonymous on "Conficka cripples my hospital every PC shut down back to fax & Phone"

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 22:09:28 +0000

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10631570

A USB stick inserted in a carpark booth computer at Waikato Hospital has been blamed for bringing down the district health board's computer network in December last year.

Anonymous on "Conficka cripples my hospital every PC shut down back to fax & Phone"

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:07:25 +0000

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10616074

Computer virus cripples Waikato DHB Thursday Dec 17, 2009
Waikato District Health Board has been crippled by a computer worm which has seen every PC in the organisation shut down.3000 PCs
"We need to keep as many people out of hospitals as we can."
"We brought in Microsoft and have been working with them through the night."
Conficka has been identified as the culprit.
The Waikato DHB covers a tenth of the country across a number of outlying sites.

Anonymous on "Google Earth & Google chrome-spyware"

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:53:40 +0000

untick all on new setup windows 7 with ThreatFire said spyware & rootkit Search with Yahoo so check with http://www.virustotal.com/
http://www.virustotal.com/reanalisis.html?29133962ccf97017876e2a59a345433a326ea9debced53451c44e39707f36800-1246944063
http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/646eb6ddc0ffbe70fee3160865706b47d0e2938eea783905248bec58648380b2-1246708528
just some I check, I try iron it's chrome with no spyware & no ads
http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron_chrome_vs_iron.php

thenameipicked on "Google Earth & Google chrome-spyware"

thenameipicked — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:00:11 +0000

I must say....despite the fact that it has all of the parts of spyware, it is missing one key part. It's optional. You can choose to send back your results or not. How many spyware programs do you know of that let you choose whether it can spy on you or not?

Anonymous on "Google Earth & Google chrome-spyware"

Anonymous — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:23:17 +0000

http://www.favbrowser.com/google-chrome-spyware-confirmed/

http://harshad.wordpress.com/2008/09/03/google-unveils-chrome-the-browser-spyware-we-were-waiting-for/

http://www.freewarefiles.com/Google-Chrome_program_44156.html

http://www.surfchrome.com/index.php/home/news-list-mode/77-google-chrome-spyware

Solution

During install, simply don't click the checkmark under the TOS that states "Optional: Help make Chrome better by automatically sending usage statistics and crash reports to Google."
scan with a-squared and it take out the updater.

Google Earth Result about 2,630,000. scan with a-squared and it take out the key logger.