Green Isaac Posted July 12, 2007 Report Share Posted July 12, 2007 As of yesterday 11th July 2007 my spyware program (PCGuard provided by Virgin Media - formerly Telewest) decided that utorrent was spyware and some of the files. Once restarted it had lost all the settings and all the torrent shares. After reading them PCGuard detects it as Spyware again and deletes it again. This site http://www.ca.com/securityadvisor/pest/pest.aspx?id=453113773 states it to be a Trojan but with no evidence and I know utorrent has a strict anti spyware policy which is why I have been using it for so long. Anyone know what is causing this confusion? Can't find anything else on the internet as of yet. Thanks for any information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted July 12, 2007 Report Share Posted July 12, 2007 That would be the antispyware and antivirus companies not testing the application. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Isaac Posted July 12, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2007 Surely they can't list every untested application as spyware? Why has it only just been added to the spyware list after years of happy service? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5618 Posted July 12, 2007 Report Share Posted July 12, 2007 The program probably (now) uses a very generic scanning method and seeing µTorrent's PECompact (.exe packer) and assuming it must therefore be evil. Maybe it was doing it before but only triggered when you updated µTorrent? Anyway, it's overly aggressive anti-spyware bullshit."Criminals use ski masks, so all people who own ski masks must be criminals." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted July 12, 2007 Report Share Posted July 12, 2007 Because sometimes they screw up and have lame heuristic detection methods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted July 12, 2007 Report Share Posted July 12, 2007 It could also be a conspiracy to "misidentify" file-sharing software as hostile trojans...maybe due to being paid off to do so by various media companies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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