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   dr_mabuse
   

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   I donloaded today the files and unzipped them.
   after execution of the setup file i got the warning by my Avira Personal
   that the file Streaming Video Recorder.exe vontains a trojan, namely:
   TR/Dropper.Gen - Trojan
   which will drop malicious files on the system.
   So is this to take serious ?
   Please inform me urgently.
   YS
   Dr.Mabuse

   Posted 3 months ago #
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   GMMan
   

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   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!.

   Posted 3 months ago #
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   RosnSC
   

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   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'.

   Sue

   Posted 3 months ago #
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   watcher13
   

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   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.

   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:

   TR/Dropper.Gen - Trojan
   Summary Full description

   Virus: TR/Dropper.Gen
   Date discovered: 19/06/2007
   Type: Trojan
   Subtype: Dropper
   In the wild: Yes
   Reported Infections: Low
   Distribution Potential: Low
   Damage Potential: Low
   Static file: No
   Engine version: 7.04.00.34

   General Side effects:
   • Drops malicious files

   Special detection 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.

   Posted 3 months ago #
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   Robert
   

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   Hi Sue,dr mabuse,GM...

   No problems over here either.
   If in doubt you can always look for a second opinion and upload files to http://www.virustotal.com
   (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)

   Posted 3 months ago #

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