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#6 McAfee virus alert

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nobody
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2007-11-28
2007-10-27
AdmSteck
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McAfee published an update to their virus definition and now I on-access scan pops up a warning message every time I start FireFox Portable, 7-Zip Portable, Audacity Portable, or Eraser Portable. It claims to have found a 'Generic StartPage.r' trojan in a file called 'registry.dll' stored in my 'local settings\temp' folder and deletes the file. Windows XP, McAffee Enterprise with antivirus DAT version 5150. Snippet of the on-access scan log is attached.

Discussion

  • AdmSteck

    AdmSteck - 2007-10-27

    OnAccess Scan Report

     
    OnAccessScanLog.txt

  • AdmSteck

    AdmSteck - 2007-10-30
    • priority: 5 --> 1
     

  • AdmSteck

    AdmSteck - 2007-10-30

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    New DAT version 5151 does not raise a warning message any more. Changed priority to lowest. Perhaps just something to keep in mind for future releases to ensure future anti- virus updates do not falsely detect portable apps.

     

  • John T. Haller

    John T. Haller - 2007-11-28
    • status: open --> closed
     

  • John T. Haller

    John T. Haller - 2007-11-28

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    McAfee has had this problem before and will probably again in the future. Unfortunately, there's not much we can do about them releasing bad virus definitions.