I have been using Camfrog for several years with Avast antivirus installed with no problems. However, today when trying to download the latest version 6.10 of Camfrog, Avast blocks the download as “Win32 Adware-gen [Adw]”.
Is this a false positive or do Avast really consider Camfrog to be malware now and undesirable?
Is this a false positive or do Avast really consider Camfrog to be malware now and undesirable?not malware, but most likely bundled with adw crap .... Adware-gen [Adw]
what is the download link?
First submission 2015-02-06 08:07:36 UTC ( 2 weeks, 4 days ago )
CopyrightSoft program Publisher Camshare Inc. Product Program Installer File version Description Program Installer Setup Comments This installation was built with Inno Setup. Signature verification Signed file, verified signature Signers [+] Camshare Inc. [+] VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2010 CA [+] VeriSign
https://www.metascan-online.com/en/scanresult/file/14d9e3cc630740e19233982ed1992302
http://virusscan.jotti.org/en/scanresult/0a73a4df5ebcdf2b57d365f26150d521f5cbe392
Hi Pondus,
Was this coming with Toobar Babylon?
pol
did not test, but seems bundled with some crap according to scan results
Thanks for your reply.
Here’s the download link, although I think you maybe found it already:
http://download.camfrog.com/distr/promo/camfrog.exe
The recent scan of the Camfrog installer you posted comes up clean on Avast so not sure why my installed up-to-date version of Avast is detecting it as malware?
Camfrog has annoyingly for the past year or so become adware and spawns popups while running although there are ways around this eg by replacing the installed camfrog.exe with a modified, adware-clean version.
How do I stop Avast from blocking the download and preventing me installing Camfrog?
I checked that download link with MetaScan and two detections came up one for a variant of Win32/Bundled.Toolbar.Ask.G application
by ESET’s and Adware.Toolbar.282 by DrWeb’s as you can see here.
https://www.metascan-online.com/en/scanresult/file/14d11a0a5f1b439a957ddef380070520
My Toolbar hunch was right when you can uncheck the toolbar install in the bundled install you should be OK.
Alas more and more free software come with these “undesirable goodies” nowadays, bundling crap is to-days big “sin” ;D
Your best bet is installing that software using unchecky! and exclude it out of the avast scan.
polonus
How do I prevent Avast from blocking the download and preventing me installing Camfrog?you can right click avast tray icon and pause shields .... it may be detected again when doing a scan
Video: Excluding certain files/folders from scanning by Avast Antivirus https://www.avast.com/en-eu/faq.php?article=AVKB107#artTitle
My good friend, Pondus, is right with his advice.
For downloading software minus additional bundled crap and junk there is unchecky.
Yep, get unchecky here: http://unchecky.com/
and let that vid there cheer you up.
Welcome to the avast support forums from all of us here,
polonus
not the same as the one i scanned above… See MD5
https://www.virustotal.com/nb/file/a40519e4255ea97f106515f68b8adfc8c6d56873d77a9107c087c2716f573d1f/analysis/1424795778/
seems bundled with toolbar
my download link hxxps://download.camfrog.com/en/distr/camfrog.exe file size 1107kb
your download link hxxp://download.camfrog.com/distr/promo/camfrog.exe file size 10524kb
Thanks polonus and Pondus.
Agree with you about the “undesirable goodies” in software…
I quite like Camfrog so if I can get it downloaded, will uncheck the toolbar, install it in a Virtual machine, run a scan with Avast and Hijackthis to test it out for malware.
Edit:
Thanks for the clarification on the links, Pondus.
The actual Camfrog installer is usually ca 10 MB in size, and the links you gave are ca 1.1MB in size, so looks like Camfrog may have started using online preinstallers, rather than a full offline installer.
Darn, am always suspicious of preinstallers since you can’t scan the file before you install it so don’t quite know what it will download during the install.