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Argai
Posts: 3/6		 Trend Micro Housecall says:
Virus Scan: No virus detected
Trojan/Worm Check: No worm/Trojan horse detected

AntiVir also says nothing about a virus
dormento
Posts: 2/48
If you're careful about what you download and from where, you shouldn't need a resident virus scanner. All they do is slow down the system and cause problems (which is to be expected when you intercept and pick through every single executable that tries to load). An ordinary once-daily scan should suffice.
BMF is right. My old home pc has been working fine for 5 years without a hitch. If you have a good browser/e-mail client you don't need to worry about anything.
Good sense goes a long way to protect your computer, more than any anti-virus protection.
Dragonsbrethren
Posts: 24/442
Originally posted by BMF54123
If you're careful about what you download and from where, you shouldn't need a resident virus scanner. All they do is slow down the system and cause problems (which is to be expected when you intercept and pick through every single executable that tries to load). An ordinary once-daily scan should suffice.


Yeah, I disabled all of Norton's "auto protect" features and still have no problem with viruses.
BMF54123
Posts: 72/876		 If you're careful about what you download and from where, you shouldn't need a resident virus scanner. All they do is slow down the system and cause problems (which is to be expected when you intercept and pick through every single executable that tries to load). An ordinary once-daily scan should suffice.
The Kins
Posts: 41/352
Originally posted by Dragonsbrethren
Originally posted by The Kins
My AVG free has gone ballistic and declared YY-CHR a trojan. Now I can't use it, even if I try and extract it to my other HDD from a fresh download.

What?


Comedy. Pure comedy.

Invest in a decent anti-virus, this only happens with shitty free ones (And McAfee, which should be free considering how shitty it is)
I probably will. Any suggestions, preferably other than Norton? (I've used it before and it made my soul weep)
Dart Zaidyer
Posts: 1/9		 There has to be a way to flag it as a false positive and have AVG ignore it, but I can't seem to find such a feature.

Then again, is there a way to hack yy-chr and remove the "virus" bits without breaking it?
Dragonsbrethren
Posts: 22/442
Originally posted by The Kins
My AVG free has gone ballistic and declared YY-CHR a trojan. Now I can't use it, even if I try and extract it to my other HDD from a fresh download.

What?


Comedy. Pure comedy.

Invest in a decent anti-virus, this only happens with shitty free ones (And McAfee, which should be free considering how shitty it is)
Xkeeper
Posts: 233/5653		 I noticed one of them lists it as being "UPX Compressed"

In the words of Merijn:
"UPX compression does not automatically equal a scary virus"
Bit-Blade
Posts: 20/35		 I ran across the same problem with yy-chr. I eventually had to come to the conclusion that either yy-chr must be inherant corrupt or yy is hosting infected files on his server and doesn't even know it. As long as I've been using YY-CHR, these virii have not stopped me from using it or made any dsicernible dent on my computer usage.
Dwedit
Posts: 13/116		 Does your virus scanner have an exclusions list? Add files to it! Mcafee thought that a really old SMS utility was a virus written 6 years after the utility came out.
The Kins
Posts: 31/352		 OK, now it at least lets the EXE load again - I had to turn off the Resident Shield but at least the EXE itself is unaffected.

I'm a happy Trashy again.
asdf
Posts: 30/4077		 Don't think that all viruses can be spotted from the moment they are unleashed. This; judging by the timestamps; seems to be a brand new virus. The other possibility is a recent update to the virus list that shares some code with YY-CHR and makes the program think it is a virus.
The Kins
Posts: 30/352
Originally posted by BMF54123
Originally posted by asdf
The only thing I can think of, although absurd, is that there is a new virus that makes the program think innocent programs are viruses. It's highly unlikely, but it's the only thing I could think of that could be causing this to happen.
If that were true, the online scanner (http://virusscan.jotti.org) would've reported the file as clean.

I just ran my copy through the online scanner, and it reported the same thing. I'm guessing all the scanners that reported (hopefully ) false positives use similar detection code, and part of YY-CHR's code just happens to look like some obscure virus. With so many viruses and Windows applications available nowadays, you're bound to have some unintentional overlap.

I've been using YY-CHR for years, and not once has it exhibited even remotely virus-like behavior. I wouldn't worry too much.

Yeah, I'm guessing it's a false hit.

Kinda annoying though, this'll halt all work on my SMW hack* until this gets fixed...

(* "My SMW hack" = "making crappy Lode Runner spritesheets")
BMF54123
Posts: 53/876
Originally posted by asdf
The only thing I can think of, although absurd, is that there is a new virus that makes the program think innocent programs are viruses. It's highly unlikely, but it's the only thing I could think of that could be causing this to happen.
If that were true, the online scanner (http://virusscan.jotti.org) would've reported the file as clean.

I just ran my copy through the online scanner, and it reported the same thing. I'm guessing all the scanners that reported (hopefully ) false positives use similar detection code, and part of YY-CHR's code just happens to look like some obscure virus. With so many viruses and Windows applications available nowadays, you're bound to have some unintentional overlap.

I've been using YY-CHR for years, and not once has it exhibited even remotely virus-like behavior. I wouldn't worry too much.
The Kins
Posts: 29/352		 It's possible, I guess. I'll give it a couple of days and see if it clears up.
asdf
Posts: 29/4077
Originally posted by ~
ArcaVir Found Trojan.Delwin.D
AVG Antivirus Found Generic.EUI
BitDefender Found Trojan.Killfiles.BI
Dr.Web Found Trojan.DelWin.76
UNA Found Trojan.Win32.DelWin




Wow, that's pretty insane. I'll try scanning an executable instead and see if it still finds all of those viruses...


Edit: Yep, even the main executable is full of it... I wonder what's going on.


The only thing I can think of, although absurd, is that there is a new virus that makes the program think innocent programs are viruses. It's highly unlikely, but it's the only thing I could think of that could be causing this to happen.
The Kins
Posts: 28/352		 Well, at least I'm not alone.

This is really, really strange.
Xkeeper
Posts: 183/5653		 ArcaVir Found Trojan.Delwin.D
AVG Antivirus Found Generic.EUI
BitDefender Found Trojan.Killfiles.BI
Dr.Web Found Trojan.DelWin.76
UNA Found Trojan.Win32.DelWin




Wow, that's pretty insane. I'll try scanning an executable instead and see if it still finds all of those viruses...


Edit: Yep, even the main executable is full of it... I wonder what's going on.
MathOnNapkins
Posts: 23/1106		 Yeesh... really don't know what to do about that. Probably better off asking in the hardware / software forum. B/c if it [windows] did it to one program, it might have done it to others.
The Kins
Posts: 27/352		 Weird, every copy of YYCHR on my computer seems to have been rendered unusable (The properties window in Explorer seems to recognise it as a DOS program, and Windows refuses to execute it), despite working perfectly as recently as last night Also, it won't upload to that malware scanner.

I have no idea what is going on.

EDIT: Pushed the ZIP file from Zophar through that online scanner instead. Apparently it has about four seperate virii in it. Can someone else please download the YY CHR zip from Zophar and send it through this?
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