-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Caution with Amust
- From: Keyboard Cowboy <KBCowboy@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Robert Andrew Dulaney Jr." <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 18:55:31 -0700
I understand your concerns...........and would share them. One thing
to remember though, is that some programs do that for a very
legitimate reason. Some software manufacturers who sell "try before
you buy, or trialware software programs try to keep a registry key to
keep people from deleting the program when the trial period is over
and then reloading it to bypass buying it. The key is
innocuous....just a pain in the a**. <G>
Regards from
Bob -- the "Keyboard Cowboy",
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Cincinnati, Ohio
Scottsdale, Arizona
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On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 11:54:00 -0700 (PDT), Robert Andrew Dulaney Jr.
wrote:
| I discovered the program called Amust on this board installed it
| and found it useful.
|
|
| However after scanning for rootkits I had a hit with this program
| so I deleted the program,
|
| washed my system and did another rookkit scan and it still came
| up positive. I searched
|
| the registry and tried to delete all Amust registry keys (of
| which I found 3 remaining after
|
| deleting the program) I could not delete one of them using delete
| in regedit. Washed
|
| again and ran another scan for rootkit again a positive hit for
| Amust.
|
|
| I can neither confirm nor deny that this rookkit hit is malicious
| in anyway however I though
|
| I would warn the group and they could make their own deduction
| whether they wanted to
|
| install the program or not.
|
|
| In my opinion any "program" that tries to completely hide from
| you so you cannot tell it is
|
| on your machine should be considered a threat.
|
|
| Bob
|
|
| Don't assist the spammers!
| Please delete my name and e-dress before forwarding this e-mail
| to anyone. Thank you I appreciate your compliance
|
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