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False Positives with McAfee? Submitted by Cheetah on October 26, 2007 - 10:32pm
Is anyone else getting what I presume is a false positive hit for "Generic StartPage.r" on %TEMP%\nsvXXX.tmp\registry.dll when opening and closing PuTTY Portable? This appears to have just shown up for me in today's McAfee update (5150/October 26th 2007). ( categories: )
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Yea
there is ah next post on it to its todays update. And it appairs with any portable app it seems because it happen with me on countless times. Tell McAfee bout the BS they doing.
Never curse the alligator till you done cross the bridge. ;)
More False Positives
This is likely a false positive.
It has been happening with FFP and TBP as well.
Be assured that Official PortableApps.com programs are virus free.
Sometimes some of the things the apps need to do "look" suspicious to some antimalware programs and they need to be updated. Unfortunately, this happens more often than it should :(
Please read the following 2 threads:
http://portableapps.com/node/9825
http://portableapps.com/node/9834
and now:
http://portableapps.com/node/9837
Hopefully McAfee [and AVG] will get the message and update soon,
we hope Sad
"The Wheels of John grind slowly, yet they grind exceedingly small" ;)
John's Report...
http://portableapps.com/node/9846
...But the gift of God is eternal life through Christ. Romans 6:23
MD5
The PortableApps version claims to be version 0.60, but if you compare the MD5 checksum of the internal putty.exe file at \PortableApps\PuTTYPortable\App\putty\putty.exe with the expected MD5 found here: http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.60/md5sums , they are not the same. I'm suspicious to say the least.
UPX
That's due to UPX compression, which shrinks an EXE to save space (and is unrelated to the false positive above which McAfee has since corrected on their end). It's an open source (GPLed) utility. You can UNUPX the EXE yourself and it'll match the official MD5 sum again. UPX homepage
Live with purpose.
Wow...
... lightning fast response. Thanks for the clarification.
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So, have you switched on file-size displaying yet ? :)