thelunnster Posted January 3, 2008 Report Share Posted January 3, 2008 Hi Guys,I have read previous posts about trojans and Utorrent and thought i would have my say.I recently had to re-download the utorrent exe file from utorrent.com as i had a major system fault and had to re-install everything. Since then my anti-virus software (McAfee) keeps telling me that there is a trojan in the file. I have not been able to download anything because i can't resolve the problem.any ideas?chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted January 3, 2008 Report Share Posted January 3, 2008 What trojan is it claiming to have? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted January 3, 2008 Report Share Posted January 3, 2008 Assuming your system is not already infected with something, it's a false positive. AV apps randomly like to falsely detect ut as having a trojan simply because it's packed with UPX. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajones81 Posted January 3, 2008 Report Share Posted January 3, 2008 Said AV apps probably have a POS so-called 'heuristic' module that throws up false positives half the time... :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelunnster Posted January 3, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 3, 2008 how can i get round the problem?is there a way i can get my av software to accept the UPX packing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewelisheaven Posted January 4, 2008 Report Share Posted January 4, 2008 Write repeatedly and often to them for them to remove such a superfluous and simple test when it throws up positives. (This is notwithstanding the ineffectivity in the age of multi-polymorphic packing as recently employed by the storm botnet) Searching the forum will also show you McAfee is not well-regarded here for causing problems :/As far as working around the problem from uT's end, unfortunately no. You may be able to configure your scanner to have an exception for utorrent.exe (requiring full path) but since my only experience with it is to remove its bundled services off Dell computers I cannot advise any further. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted January 4, 2008 Report Share Posted January 4, 2008 Just add it to your AV's whitelist or exception list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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