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[SyncrohX]

Hi everybody...

Downloaded Face Maker 3.1 today (Face_Maker_3.1___English_.zip) and my anti-virus (Avira) warned me that it contains the trojan virus TR/Gendal.kdv.233703. Nice surprise :-(

Anybody here got the same advice?

Saludos,

Syncroh X

[Polraudio]

Did you download it from here? http://www.rmxpunlim...4-face-maker-31

I got no virus from that one. It must be a false positive. The download is completely safe.

No downloads on this site have viruses.

[SyncrohX]

Polraudio, on 03 November 2011 - 05:39 PM, said:

Did you download it from here? http://www.rmxpunlim...4-face-maker-31

I got no virus from that one. It must be a false positive. The download is completely safe.

No downloads on this site have viruses.

Hi Polraudio,

thank you for the fast reply. Yes, I downloaded it from this link above. To make sure, I downloaded a second time and in the meantime updated my scanner (second time today), just to make sure. Same alert. Maybe it was a false positive, I don't know. But I found a german translation of this program, version 3.2, following another link and I didn't get any alert, so I thought I'd better inform you.

Saludos,

Syncroh X

[GrimmHallows]

I thought that I had better double check this for myself, and I decided that the best way to do this was to scan it with all the anti-virus programs I know of.
So, AVG first. It was relatively quick, even with a thorough scan; but it found no traces of infectious software (And AVG is notorious for false positives, becuase of it's rather overly constrictive virus detecting algorithms)

Secondly, I used Norton, which also seemed to come back clean, and also has a nasty history of false positives, I should know; tried telling me that my "Dragon Age: Origins" disk had a trogan on it. I also scanned that disk several times to make sure with different programs, and only Norton was having a cow.

Finally, I used Avast. This last one isn't as strict as the other two, with a lot more control given to the user in any case, but again, nothing was found?

So it must have just been Avira.
I might get it later and test Avira myself; can never have too many antivirus programs in my opinion.

Any way, that's just my results.

-Grimm

[kellessdee]

Scanned with Panda Cloud, no results either.

I think this one is safe to call a false positive. The largest downside with some anti-viruses, are that their virus libraries/databases rely on user collected data, and can lead to incorrect information being stored. Or, some software works with a system that may seem "malicious" to an anti-virus, even if it isn't actually doing anything malicious.


Nonetheless, you were definitely right in bringing it to our attention, thank you.

[Kiriashi]

Panda Cloud? That sounds adorable.


And yeah that problem with facemaker has been around for a while. There's nothing wrong with that download, but better safe than sorry.

[kellessdee]

Kiriashi, on 04 November 2011 - 10:37 PM, said:

Panda Cloud? That sounds adorable.

Not only is it adorable, it is also the best anti-virus around(IMO). And it's live. And it's free(FACT).
And it's http://www.cloudantivirus.com/en/