Giveaway of the Day Forums » Topic: Is Streaming Video Recorder REALLY clean? https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5995 Giveaway of the Day Forums » Topic: Is Streaming Video Recorder REALLY clean? en-US Wed, 10 Jun 2026 07:30:04 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.2 Ashraf on "Is Streaming Video Recorder REALLY clean?" https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5995#post-62473 Wed, 19 Aug 2009 01:02:00 +0000 Ashraf 62473@https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/

watcher,

Figures Avira is known for false positives. Usually at this point I would say "yes it is clean" because GOTD is usually very good about keeping their software clean but you gotta understand how my trust was deteriorated by the fact that the download included a real trojan (opt in of course) first time around.

watcher13 on "Is Streaming Video Recorder REALLY clean?" https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5995#post-62457 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:14:46 +0000 watcher13 62457@https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/

Ashraf, that's a generic heuristic routine on Avira. I've gotten that hit a number of times. I can't advise you not to be cautious, but I'm betting false hit. Avira describes the risks as low, and you can see from their description, it's a genric heurstic hit:

"TR/Dropper.Gen

Description:
A generic detection routine designed to detect common family characteristics shared in several variants.

This special detection routine was developed in order to detect unknown variants and will be enhanced continuously."

Ashraf on "Is Streaming Video Recorder REALLY clean?" https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5995#post-62449 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:27:16 +0000 Ashraf 62449@https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/

Not according to SiteAdvisor.

However I am not sure why it should matter. This trojan reading has nothing to do with GOTD's wrapper especially considering that the setup install file is not in a wrapper.

GMMan, Hexadecimal Blacksmith on "Is Streaming Video Recorder REALLY clean?" https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5995#post-62448 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:22:05 +0000 GMMan, Hexadecimal Blacksmith 62448@https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/

Say, is the version from their website clean?

Ashraf on "Is Streaming Video Recorder REALLY clean?" https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5995#post-62447 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:17:39 +0000 Ashraf 62447@https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/

Okay when SVR was first put up I thought the trojan was because of "SeekService". However I just download the updated version of SVR and Avira detects the same exact trojan during install as before. False positive? I don't know, maybe, but I am not about to trust this software on my computer.