Hello,
I've noticed popups on any computer that my portable apps suite is running on and haven't been able to find any discussion of that in the forums here. Is this something that I just have to deal with. None of the computers have experienced popup trouble before or continue to do so w/o my device plugged in.
I realize that another option is that the popups are coming from my device but not part of the portable apps suite.
Anyway, I ran a spyware detection on my device and it flagged the following file in the portable gimp folder. Is this a legitimate part of portable gimp or should I delete it?
downloader.vbs.aqu in %portabledevice%PortableApps\GIMPPortable\App\gtk\bin\gspawn-win32-helper.exe
Thanks.
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Once again... as stated in about 5 other topics... and as stated clearly at the very top of the support page (the FIRST place you should check) it's an error in your spyware detector. Report it to them and get them to fix it.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
be carefull - it might be real trojan.
i've tested a few mirror's of sourceforge.net last night
at least in one of them the zip file was 18M instead of 10M -
the file loaded from this site reported the trojan.
loading from dublin mirror gave the expected size and no problem was reported by the untivirus software.
sorry but i didn't record the problematic site ....
Came up positive in my Grisoft AVG too. Reported.
The file gspawn-win32-helper.exe is reported as containing a trojan by Norman virus control too (http://www.norman.com/en-uk). I downloaded the PortableGimp in April/May 2006, probably from the Dublin mirror, althought I'm not absolutely certain. I may have neglected to check the md5-sum. The main .exe (after unpacking) has file date and time 19. April 2006, 17:56.
I became aware of this discussion, and of previous reports of trojans, followed by rather emphatic denials, today after googling for "gspawn-win32-helper.exe". In light of the info above that this file has been observed to be larger when downloaded from some mirrors than from others, this observation should definitely not be dismissed as "yet another false positive".
-- NorwegianBlue
-- NorwegianBlue
The MD5 sums are on the pages for a reason. If you get the file, it should match the size reported and the MD5 sum reported. If it does, you can be sure you have the legit file. If it doesn't, you can be sure your download is corrupt.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!