[triadtechtalk] Re: False Positive results with MSE
- From: ChasM49@xxxxxxx
- To: triadtechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 10:08:18 -0400 (EDT)
Brian... seems you have a tendency to enjoy playing with fire.... yes MSE
will show they are infected.... and most likely not but have similar
features related to the virus and Trojans named...... should tell you that
need to
look deep since its saying there is a critical feature that imposes
dangers in those programs...... and then ask... why do I need all these
things.... seems you want to be the zillionaire in holdings of programs on
your
pc... why? do you use every one of them or do they have pretty little icons on
them.....if you want all sorts of pretty icons then go and download Windows
8... I used to go out and get all those recovery files,unzip and zippers
and password finders etc etc etc.. but learned..... they aren't worth the
efforts..... now.. I use 4x5 cards for passwords etc and have no need for the
"lost island of whatsoever " repair,fixer,recover,opener, or any other of
a thousand drive by files one sees on the net..... I make use of the
windows troubleshooter files.... and do have System mechanic i did buy.....and
a
select few of video tools.... MSE has proven lots better than many of the
AV stuff... Norton,and other Avs seem to be monster troublesome resource
hogs that slows a PC down to old man crawling speed.... so I dont even bother
with them...maybe its time for you to be taking a look see at what you are
doing and needing all these programs..... to me...... seems you are
enjoying the crisis they bring on......... have to go back to my simple
word.....
KISS!!!!!!!!!! .........dump the garbage......take a real honest good look
at that Nirsoft Messup....... you seem to begging for the problems that it
will bring to you.... FREE???????? aint no free lunches anymore......... my
opinion... since am getting too old for those crazy junker files "free" to
cure all ills of ones PC........ chuck..... in Ok
In a message dated 6/19/2012 5:16:08 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
brian99@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
TTT users,
An update on my use of MSE.
This problem occurred while using MSE but I guess it is applicable with
any of the anti virus programs.
Hopefully, if will be of some help to other less seasoned users.
I can sure say no one can say MSE doesn't find malware.
It found about 10-15 files that it said ranged from severe to mildly
infected!
The problem was most were from:
NirLauncher - Collection of more than 100 portable utilities from NirSoft
- _http://launcher.nirsoft.net/_ (http://launcher.nirsoft.net/)
I knew NirLauncher was a reputable site but didn't know if the files the
MSE detected had somehow become infected.
I spent hours having MSE quarantining the many many items it ID ed as
viruses.
There were programs I had used for a long time like:
CurrPorts, ProduKey, ShellExView,etc;
NOTE: See the entire list here:
Anti virus"False Positive" Problems -
_http://www.nirsoft.net/false_positive_report.html_
(http://www.nirsoft.net/false_positive_report.html)
I guess the lesson is if a anti virus program find any infections they
should be sent to
VirusTotal Web:_ http://tinyurl.com/2z9e5q _ (http://tinyurl.com/2z9e5q)
to see if they really are infected files.
So now I have set MSE to Exclude these Files and Locations.
However, now I am wondering if simply removing these files is OK or if it
best to reinstall all of them?
Any help is appreciated.
Brian
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