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Deozaan

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Adobe Reader has a trojan?
« on: December 04, 2007, 02:55 AM »
I just turned on my wife's (Dell) laptop and the Dell Support center told me it didn't have the latest Adobe Reader plug-in for IE. So I had it take me to Adobe's website and clicked the install button and it began downloading.

As it was downloading the McAfee Security popped up saying there was a trojan in SGC (SGC15.exe), which was in the temporary files being downloaded by Adobe.

Does anyone else have information on this? Or even what SGC is?

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Re: Adobe Reader has a trojan?
« Reply #1 on: December 04, 2007, 03:06 AM »
I found a few mentions of this particular problem from a google search:

http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.3bc43ab9?14
http://forums.mcafeehelp.com/showthread.php?t=209334
http://tech-uno.com/public_html/article.php?story=20071107034830579

And all I see is people saying it's a false positive, but no official explanations of what SGC is or what it does. Interesting.

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