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VirusTotal Reports Potential Virus/Identity Theft Risk

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11:38 am
January 8, 2011


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First of all I am a big fan of SecondShell and I consider
this little gem on same par with ccleaner and the like.

However, AVG reported SecondShell as potential identity
theft. Thus I uploaded it to http://www.virustotal.com
for further testing and the result shows that 3 out of 42 Anti-Virus software also
indicates SecondShell as potential virus (
http://www.virustotal.com/file…..294474325)

I am totally convinced by your explanation in anther
post that this is a “false positive” due to AutoHotkey and AutoIt being
identified as keyloggers. My humble suggestion is that you may consider contacting
the respective Anti-Virus vendor directly regarding the false positive so that other
uninformed users of SecondShell will not ditch this gem on the first sight of the
virus warning.

Again, thank you very much for writing such a fantastic
utility! Wish you best of luck in all future endeavors.

 

2:16 pm
January 9, 2011


szekelya

Member

posts 3

Hi, thanks for the idea, I'll look into it how to handle this with those 3 antivirus vedors.

2:34 pm
January 9, 2011


szekelya

Member

posts 3

Guest said:

the result shows that 3 out of 42 Anti-Virus software also


indicates SecondShell as potential virus (
http://www.virustotal.com/file…..294474325)


 


Just contacted all 3 of them. I'll post the results here.

8:40 pm
January 9, 2011


szekelya

Member

posts 3



Hi, First answer from one of the antivirus companies of the 3 marking Secondshell as suspicious on virustotal:

 

Hi 

Thank you for letting us know about this determination. We have reviewed internally and agree we should change this determination. 

Regards, 

Prevx Support



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