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Author Topic: Trojan in Screenshot captor???  (Read 5177 times)

noutters

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Trojan in Screenshot captor???
« on: March 12, 2008, 03:00 AM »
Bad surprise this morning, my MacAfee AV prog detected the following a generic.dx trojan in screenshotcaptor.exe:
3/12/2008   8:51:48 AM   Borttagen       C:\Program Files\FindAndRunRobot\FindAndRunRobot.exe   C:\PROGRAM FILES\SCREENSHOTCAPTOR\SCREENSHOTCAPTOR.EXE   Generic.dx (Trojan)
3/12/2008   8:51:48 AM   Borttagen       C:\Program Files\FindAndRunRobot\FindAndRunRobot.exe   C:\Program Files\ScreenshotCaptor\ScreenshotCaptor.exe\00558514.EXE   Generic.dx (Trojan)

Something to do with the hacking of the site?  >:(
« Last Edit: September 15, 2008, 12:09 PM by noutters »

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Re: Trojan in Screenshot captor???
« Reply #1 on: March 12, 2008, 03:13 AM »
have you had a look at these threads

This thread describes the basic issue and initial complaints:
https://www.donation...ndex.php?topic=12610

the thread that's linked to has a update/fix from macafee
quoted thread is for discussion
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Re: Trojan in Screenshot captor???
« Reply #2 on: March 12, 2008, 03:52 AM »
Tomos has it right, its a *confirmed* false alaram with McAfee.

This thread is a bit more useful than the one Tomos linked you to: https://www.donation...ndex.php?topic=12614

As for this:
Something to do with the hacking of the site?

The answer is decidely NO -- it's just a bad coincidence.  None of the downloadable files on DC were affected in any way.

This is simply (another) case of an anti-virus tool giving a false positive.  McAfee will be updated in a day or two and will stop triggering on the files.  Blame McAfee not me!