False Alarm

I downloaded PDF reDirect from download.com and when I installed it, it detected OSSMTP.dll to be infected with Win32:Israz-C [Wrm]. Download.com is a reputable site and I was wondering if this is just a false alarm. My heuristics are set to high.

Thanks guys.

download.com’s free softwares are not all safe.
Some of them are full of spywares etc.

Just read peoples comment first before downloading anything in download.com

Hope this helped abit :-\ if not sorry ::slight_smile:

yeah the editors review and user comments were like 4 out of 5.

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a289/T6212/unxcfvtitled.jpg

Sorry if that didn’t help ::slight_smile:

But you have the same thing as I have! same browser theme same taskbar color etc ;D ;D

Cool another Opera user ;). I do appreciate the help though :D. Anyone else know if this is a real virus? ???

nevermind just found this.

Hi Ninterdo,

Here are the results of my investigation (see below for the boring technical details): the Spysweeper report seems to be a “False Positive” issue with Spysweeper. I have confirmed that PDF reDirect does NOT install any keylogger software. Therefore, I have re-opened the downloads page on the forum. I will provide Spysweeper’s reply as soon as I receive it. Note that Norton Anti-Virus, F-Secure and Kaspersky had the same false positive problem, and all of them corrected their definition files to fix the problem. I am hopeful that Spysweeper will do the same.

Thank you again for expressing your concern: I appreciate you bringing this to my attention. Once I get confirmation from Spysweeper that the issue was a false positive, would it be acceptable to you that I delete this post? I will keep the original post open though.

Regards,

Michel Korwin-Szymanowski
::slight_smile: ::slight_smile: ::slight_smile: ::slight_smile: ::slight_smile:

Thanks anyways guys. ;D

If you didn’t already do that, please submit the misdetected file (OSSMTP.dll) to virus@avast.com so that we can fix the false alarm.
The preferable way is to pack it with ZIP or RAR, protect it with a password and send in an e-mail with “False alarm” subject.