Wild Tangent??

I've run SpySubtract on my system twice now and each time it has come up with a file identified as a Wild Tangent dll.

Last time I had removed it Second Life wouldn't load, so I re-installed SL, and again SpySubtract has identified the DLL.

Wild Tangent is well known to be spyware, and I'm wondering if it's a false detection with SpySubtract.

SpySubtract generated this for the DLL:

Details
Name fmod.dll
Database ID 12621
Location
Detected In Files and Directories

Path C:\Program Files\SecondLife
Description Spyware usually exists in your computer's file system in the form of files and directories.

Threat
Threat Adware
Description AdWare is a type of software that displays advertisements on the computer screen while a computer is running. Typically, AdWare is built into software that performs some other primary task such as file sharing.
The justification for AdWare is for the software developer to recover revenue via advertising instead of for instance charging for their software. Some Adware will collect the computers usage information (e.g. sites visited) and send it up to a remote server on the internet where it is collected and processed for marketing purposes.

Produced By
Company WildTangent, Inc.
Product Name Game Channel, WildTangent, WildTangent Installer, GameChannel, Updater Service, wcmdmgr
Company URL http://www.wildtangent.com


I'm just wondering what it is doing there.

Thats odd... fmod is the sound API SL now uses.

We need LL to confirm something like this, Im not familar with the naming conventions followed by them

Good luck

==Chris

Are you sure you didnt pick up WildTangent somewhere else? I only ask because I just ran PestPatrol and my system is clean. I have had WT before from someone playing shockwave games on my system. Pest Patrol picked it up and cleaned it out back then so I know it does indeed detect it.

The path is correct, it's in the Second Life directory. Though if I remove it SL immediately stops loading. If it's a naming issue then I can understand that.

Update: Well it's not a name based detection. Furcadia uses a fmod.dll file.

So SpySubtract is detecting something within the dll itself.

It's distinctly possible that WildTangent (which is a web based "gaming" API, if I recall) also uses fmod.dll, and for what ever reason your spyware program has associated this audio API with it.

FMOD is the sound library that we use for our audio engine - It's pretty odd that SpySubtract thinks that it has anything to do with WildTangent - seems like a somewhat sloppy piece of work on SpySubtract's part, as the fmod dll that we ship is likely to be used by many applications.

Maybe it uses some sort of DLL signature system, and the version of fmod that we're using is generating a false positive?

- Doug

WildTangent is most often associated with WinAMP, as they released a lot of plugin games for it.

That's extremly wierd.

I use Ad-Aware and it's never complained about the SL viewer.

I would definatly ask the authors of Spy Subtract about it.