[nvda] Re: An odd evident false positive

I have spywareblaster and spybot, on here.
i havn't found this issue and when I had nvda 0.5 on here and v400 alpha I 
found nothing a miss.
However nvda is not the usual thing I run, I only stay on here to keep informed.
This type of thing was the reason i made avg not auto shield the system.
any double file extention even .txt.bat or .lnx.txt which were lagit files I 
used in linux would get an unknown clicker/s trogen message, files that were 
safe one week would pop up as being some sort of generic virus.
Strangely this issue did not show up in the shell scanner only shield and main 
scanner and sometimes not even the main scanner I scan my system and others 
once every year which takes 2 hours and I have not found anything really wrong.
Once I found a virus on the system and reported it to the guy that wrote the 
now infected program, since i had just got it off the site.
I was told there was none and that if there was I wouldn't have the program 
released type thing.
So avg shield is off due to its unreliability.
If spybot detects this issue it could be because of a named file.
web formatter pops up as spyware even though the dll file it uses is lagit it 
just happens to have the same name as a piece of spyware.
Nvda only really uses python and its associated libs.
This means that if this is so then decent into madness and moosic should also 
be spyware since its all python, granted the other stuff I have except for 
decent into madness that is are not compiled exe files they are just files you 
execute with the python interpriter.
At 11:40 a.m. 11/12/2007, you wrote:
>Today, when I ran the Panda online antimalware program, it identified what it 
>claimed was a piece of addware in NVDA named BaiduBar.  the identification was 
>made in an old copy of the program as well as a newer version.  I am not 
>assuming there is any problem with the software and no adware was installed on 
>my system.  The only identification of the location of this alleged addware is 
>in the NVDA folders and in the zip file I have on my machine in case I need 
>it.  I am not using the installer version of NVDA. I'm raising this topic 
>because I am curious if anyone else, using this or another malware detection 
>program has received such an identification and because I wonder if there is 
>anything in the code of the program that might cause false positives even in 
>properly working antispyware programs.
>
>Again, I don't want to alarm anyone or cause false concern.  No malware has 
>been installed on my machine and I believe this is a false positive 
>identification.
>
>Gene 
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