Re: likely false positive (?)
- From: J R FOX <jr_fox@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 09:08:17 -0800
The more immediate issue seems to be getting a download of the archive that is
not corrupt. This happened not only on the desktop rig that I mentioned (which
has both Avast and Malwarebytes on it), but on a brand new one that just has MS
Security Essentials. In both cases, neither PKZip, 7-Zip, nor WinRar could
could open the XyWeb120 archive. Can you open yours ?
There have been times where either Avast or MBam munged downloads they objected
to. The result is typically a truncated file. My download of 120 ran a shade
over 4 Mb. Editing their site or file whitelists generally cured this. As an
experiment, I'm going to download the file again using an older laptop that
runs XP and has *no* AV on it any longer, or if necessary also a laptop that
runs eCS and has no AV program. Should I keep getting the same result,
something is indeed wrong here.
Of course, if Carl is close to releasing a revised U2 collection, this may all
soon be moot.
Jordan
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> From: Paul Breeze <paul.breeze@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Sent: Friday, January 30, 2015 2:55 AM
>Subject: Re: likely false positive (?)
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>Dear Jordan
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>I use Avast and it didn't blink when I downloaded XYweb120.
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>Maybe it is possible to be TOO cautious?
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>Best wishes
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>Paul
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>On 30/01/2015 04:25, J R FOX wrote:
>> Here is the VirusTotal scan on XyWeb120, which I had to download
>> elsewhere. I probably can't even open the archive on this system,
>> without first disabling Avast! AV. There seem to be 4 or 5 out of the
>> 57 AV products in agreement on this, but I'm still kind of skeptical.
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>> Does anyone know if MS Security Essentials is any good ? (Win Defender
>> does not have all that good a reputation.)
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>> btw, I did run Winprint from the Japanese Sourceforge through this, and
>> it was not flagged.
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>> Jordan
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