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Simone Speculaas
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Join date: 4 Sep 2005
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07-15-2007 20:41
Has anyone else found this, or is my copy of Norton's possibly giving me a false positive?
Also, not having posted before, if I've put this in the wrong section, could someone kindly redirect me to a more appropriate spot? (I'd like to alert Linden directly, but as a basic account holder, and this would not appear to be one of the three allowable questions I can use for technical support). Thanks s1m0ne
File: Second Life 1-18-0-6 Setup.exe
Status: Infected
Risk: Adware.CPush
Action: Access Denied
Updated: March 12, 2007 4:22:21 PM
Type: Adware
Infection Length: 159,744 bytes
Risk Impact: Medium
Systems Affected: Windows 98, Windows 95, Windows XP,
BehaviorAdware.CPush is an adware program that installs itself as a browser helper object and displays advertisements.
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Pablicious Pessoa
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Join date: 27 Jun 2007
Posts: 64
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07-15-2007 20:47
It is most likely a false positive. I also have Norton and got a message regarding adware.cpush while downloading and installing Google Earth. But, Norton reported that the risk level was low and did not attempt to remove it. I went ahead and removed it anyway.
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Osgeld Barmy
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Join date: 22 Mar 2005
Posts: 3,336
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07-15-2007 20:49
norton for the most part is retarded, ive written c programs that do not even connect to the internet that has poped up a spyware notice
seriously
do yourself a favor, turn that crap off, regain half your computers power and just manually run it every cupple weeks to keep clean
oh and get firefox, it unlike internet exploder does NOT install software live off of the web without notification
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Featherwit Bright
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Join date: 27 Jan 2007
Posts: 3
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07-16-2007 10:33
Virus definitions 7/15/2007 rev. 2 reported the SL installers as a virus.
Virus definitions 7/16/2007 rev. 21 do not.
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Simone Speculaas
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Join date: 4 Sep 2005
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Re false positive in Nortons
07-16-2007 16:27
Thanks guys - it's reassuring to know that Linden Labs are NOT putting adware in SL. Conversely, it's disturbing to know that Nortons can be so unrealiable. (Unfortunately, as it is a work laptop, I'm stuck with both Norton's and IE rather than Firefox, but such is life)
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Tegg Bode
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Join date: 12 Jan 2007
Posts: 5,707
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07-17-2007 02:46
Yeah Anti virus is great stuff, rarely had a problem without it, A spare PC with Virus protection sitting on the floor for 6 months not plugged in somehow picked up 5 new virus's in that time...................
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Ryoku Itoku
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Join date: 19 Jan 2006
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07-17-2007 11:57
well i think that norton is just detecting a similar programing string to that of an adware variant. more than likely its just an updated installer/uninstaller (if we are all talking about the same file)
I know that the Unisntaller scans the SL directory and detects the pressence of additonal files which aren't in the uninstall list. in some way this may register as "the collecting of personal information" but for gods sakes, dont remove this file [uninstall.exe] or you'll end up MANUALY removing SL from your system if somethign goes horibly wrong.
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Darien Caldwell
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07-17-2007 12:57
See this previous thread about the false positive: /111/38/197963/1.html |