yo-yo trojan???

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Sir Cracked of the Mind
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yo-yo trojan???

Post by Sir Cracked of the Mind »

I keep getting a virus warning every time yo-yo tries to download a crunch xxx file,   any ideas?

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Post by UBT - Halifax-lad »

Its more than likely a false positive, I would let the project know so they can look into it. But I don't think you should be worried
MikeMarsUK
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Post by MikeMarsUK »


We've frequently got false-positives from various antivirus products at the Climate projects - the most notorious being Sophos claiming that a non-executable swap file was a worm, and another virus product claiming that the project zip files were a 'decompression bomb' (which turned out to be any large zipped file).

I'd recommend emailing that file to your antivirus vendor, and asking them to adjust their signature files to avoid futher false-positives.

-- Edit: SNAP :-)
UBT - Mikee
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Post by UBT - Mikee »

Hasn't he fixed that yet?

Not a problem, just your antivirus being cautious.

See this thread for details. There's also another thread somewhere with more details.

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Post by UBT - mickyb69 »

Try this ...tiss free and got rid of mine !
http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php

Also try http://www.avast.com/en-gb/free-antivirus-download

or even avg !  :lol:
UBT - Rick Horn
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Post by UBT - Rick Horn »

Please try to use a suitable section of the forum for your queries bigoopa.
Ben
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Post by Ben »

Can't help think this is either a very cleaver spam bot (hence all those links), Got my doubts about this being a human somehow..

I say release the hounds  :twisted: (Apologies if i am wrong though)  :lol: But i do have a hunch..
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Post by Zydor »

Spam - let loose the Dogs of War  :blackknight:

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