bad files

[magnetmanca]

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?

[wiggindesigns]

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.

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[magnetmanca]

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.

[wiggindesigns]

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.