http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5991 Giveaway of the Day Forums » Topic: Warning: Today's Streaming Video recorder contains Trojan en-US Sun, 12 Feb 2012 03:12:05 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5991#post-62460 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:31:45 +0000 Robert 62460@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hi Sue,dr mabuse,GM...</p> <p>No problems over here either.<br /> If in doubt you can always look for a second opinion and upload files to <a href="http://www.virustotal.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.virustotal.com</a><br /> (the file will be scanned with 41 different antivirus engines and the result will give you a pretty good idea if it's false positive or not) </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5991#post-62456 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:11:17 +0000 watcher13 62456@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>That particular hit is often a false positive caused by Avira's heuristic detection routine. I've seen it more than once. If you're not familiar, heuristics are designed to try and identify new, never before identified viruses, but often hit on normal, built in behaviors of the software. Still, no problem with being cautious if you'd rather just uninstall to be safe.</p> <p>From Avira's site, you can see it's just a generic heuristic hit. However, someone would have to submit the file for Avira to verify it's a false positive:</p> <p>TR/Dropper.Gen - Trojan<br /> Summary Full description </p> <p>Virus: TR/Dropper.Gen<br /> Date discovered: 19/06/2007<br /> Type: Trojan<br /> Subtype: Dropper<br /> In the wild: Yes<br /> Reported Infections: Low<br /> Distribution Potential: Low<br /> Damage Potential: Low<br /> Static file: No<br /> Engine version: 7.04.00.34 </p> <p> General Side effects:<br /> • Drops malicious files</p> <p> Special detection TR/Dropper.Gen </p> <p>Description:<br /> A generic detection routine designed to detect common family characteristics shared in several variants.</p> <p>This special detection routine was developed in order to detect unknown variants and will be enhanced continuously. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5991#post-62450 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:11:53 +0000 RosnSC 62450@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I downloaded the updated one to my laptop. Didn't get any warnings of any type, so it must be okay. A little later on this evening I plan to download it to my desktop computer. I would have done that one last night, too, but it was 'down'.</p> <p>Sue </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5991#post-62439 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:36:02 +0000 GMMan, A+, Game Modder 62439@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Have you gotten the newer download? I heard that there were reports of this earlier, but GAOTD has uploaded a newer, fixed version of the program. I didn't receive any warnings from my avast!. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5991#post-62437 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:22:12 +0000 dr_mabuse 62437@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I donloaded today the files and unzipped them.<br /> after execution of the setup file i got the warning by my Avira Personal<br /> that the file Streaming Video Recorder.exe vontains a trojan, namely:<br /> TR/Dropper.Gen - Trojan<br /> which will drop malicious files on the system.<br /> So is this to take serious ?<br /> Please inform me urgently.<br /> YS<br /> Dr.Mabuse </p>