Shareaza

i found some bad files when I did a scan using yahoo antispy. These came up.

xolox 1
emule 3
gnutella 1
kazaa 1
bearshare 1
and one more I can't remember

They keep popping back up when I start shareaza 2.4 and they are a little hard to get rid of. It doesn't come up on my Norton Scans, and Yahoo antispy can't quarantine it.

Anybody know what it is?

Not sure, but I recommend something other than those 2. Both are.. sketchy(norton has more false positives and is the biggest bloatware I have seen in antiviruses).

Avast, Avira, AVG, Norton/Symantec, and mcaffee have quite a large amount false positives. AVG and Avira used to be great but are slowly going to the dark side.


I recommend for antispyware getting Malwarebytes Anti-malware, Spybot S&D, and running a scan with HijackThis!. Post the HijackThis! log as a .txt attachment here if you can and ill see what I find.


Another place I recommend going is http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ for assistance, they will have you get HijackThis as well, so best to get it now.




What you are getting are most likely false positives. Heuristics will check for programs/files with certain behaviors. If they match they may be flagged as a malware of a certain class that corresponds with the behavior.

I'll install Spybot and see if it come up with anything. I am thinking it could be false positives but it still doesn't explain why my antispy couldn't delete it. I'll get hijackthis into the mix to just to be sure.

Avira was good, but lately i've noticed its been following the path of avast/a with false positives. Best out of the free ones, but still shouldnt be the only security program used.