I tried downloading a program from desktoplightning com and Avast told me there was a Win32:Adware-gen [Adw] included in the download.
I contacted the company and received this reply:
"We’ve confirmed that DesktopLightning.exe is completely virus free. You might already know that the false positive virus report does happen to some virus scanners.
To resolve this all you have to do is exclude the DesktopLightning.exe from your anti virus scanner then you will be fine. Usually the help section of your anti virus software should tell you the steps how to exclude a particular program."
How do I know if it is a false positive? I do not want to download it only to find out it is really Adware or something else.
if you can upload it virustotal.com, upload and give us the link to that page.
give us the link to the file you are trying to download. change http to hxxp. (eg:hxxp://www.desktoplightning.com/xxx/xxx.exe)
edit : you can download the file and if it triggers avast! resulting in the infection mentioned above, move it to chest. go to avast chest, in the user area select the file you need to send and click email to avast!. go to program settings and in the settings for chest change the “maximum size of file to be sent” to more than the file size of the infected file(if the file size is > 1024KB). or you can zip the file and send it to virus@avast.com. if you use a password while zipping the file, then put the password in the body of the mail.
Right, so one person says it’s a phissing site and another that it delivers unwanted popups. I want nothing to do with a Phissing site but that is not the same as a popupsite. So what is it? I read the host-file.net report but it seems a little light to me. It is as if this is the first time the site has been checked. Am i right?
However it is a different picture checking with Google that says…
Of the 112 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 0 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2009-09-16, and suspicious content was never found on this site within the past 90 days.
This site was hosted on 1 network(s) including AS26228 (SERVEPATH).
Has this site acted as an intermediary resulting in further distribution of malware?
Over the past 90 days, www.desktoplightning.com did not appear to function as an intermediary for the infection of any sites.
Has this site hosted malware?
No, this site has not hosted malicious software over the past 90 days.
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