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cvbusa

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McAfee Antispyware flags "keyhook.dll"
« on: February 16, 2006, 07:12 PM »
McAfee Antispyware flags "C:\Program Files\ScreenshotCaptor\KeyHook.dll" - another false positive?


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Re: McAfee Antispyware flags "keyhook.dll"
« Reply #1 on: February 16, 2006, 07:32 PM »
ugh.. frustrating.  definitely a false alarm.

there was another post about this same issue, but it wasnt as popular an antivirus so i just ignored the issue (http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=2110.0)


can you do me a favor and try to rename the file and see if it is still mad at it even with a different name.

i'm really getting sick of these false positives.. i can only imagine how many people it has scared off.

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Re: McAfee Antispyware flags "keyhook.dll"
« Reply #2 on: February 17, 2006, 01:39 AM »
ps.
i've confirmed that the latest mcaffee update does flag the file as a "possibly unwanted file"
at least it doesn't assert that it knows it's a virus, so i take back my hatred of mcafee.

i have however, updated a new version of screenshot captor with the dll's packed so as to avoid the message.

thanks for alerting me to the problem cvbusa!

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