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Author Topic: MoveOut & DimScreen flagged by PrevX as being a danger to my computer's health  (Read 8,728 times)

Thingumybob

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My security program PrevX just signaled MoveOut and DimScreen as containing malware (a trojan). Both progs were downloaded direct from DonationCoder. This 'risk' was signaled immediately after a download and before installation in the case of MoveOut and after installation in the case of Dim Screen.

Strangely a download at the same time of "White" hasn't signaled anything (but I haven't tried to install it yet!).

Is PrevX wrong or ... :-/

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Prevx is wrong, very wrong.  This is a false positive that is frequently triggered on developers using the Autohotkey programming langauge, and it's driving programmers crazy.

You can read more about it here:
http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=15210.0

Thingumybob

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Thanks. I'll tell PrevX

Thingumybob

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Just sent this to Prevx SUpport "I use Prevx 3. I just tried to download & install two programs available via Donationcoder.com called DimScreen & MoveOut. They are coded using Autohotkey. Prevx alerted me that they had malware. According to Donationcoder.com this is a false alert http://z.pe/F6K . Please up-date Prevx. Thanks."

Original address: https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=20740.0