AVG & Dropper.pakes trojan

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Otto Normalverbraucher

Running AVG anti malware fully updated.

AVG found the dropper.pakes trojan in the uninstall executable within
the Ccleaner installation dir.
Cleaned it, rebooted, did full system scan & all reported ok.

Went to the Ccleaner site to download new copy of Ccleaner & AVG reports
the downloaded files infected with the same trojan.
I tried all download locations I could find incl the lite versions of
Ccleaner & they are all reported to contain this worm.

Is this a false positive?

I will contact Grisoft, but has anyone else have a prob with this?
 
Hi,

Dropper.packes points that malware code was detected using heuristics.
Heuristics isn't much reliable - it says that in file is code similar to an
malware - similar but not equal. Because it's found it in uninstaller for
100% it's a false positive (very often situations with AVG or AVAST ;)

Marcin Domaslawski
 
Hi.

I am using the latest version of CCleaner and the latest version of Avast
FREE. I just scanned the CCleaner folder with Avast and get NO virus
warnings.

Where did you obtain your copy of CCleaner from? I got mine from FileHipo.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
Running AVG anti malware fully updated.

AVG found the dropper.pakes trojan in the uninstall executable within
the Ccleaner installation dir.
Cleaned it, rebooted, did full system scan & all reported ok.

Went to the Ccleaner site to download new copy of Ccleaner & AVG reports
the downloaded files infected with the same trojan.
I tried all download locations I could find incl the lite versions of
Ccleaner & they are all reported to contain this worm.

Is this a false positive?

I will contact Grisoft, but has anyone else have a prob with this?
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I just downloaded CCleaner from here http://www.ccleaner.com/ using the
Hippo link. I just updated my AVG to the latest and get no warning about
any virus. Maybe AVG fixed the issue earlier in the day before I got the
latest update. I scanned it before update and after update and that file
shows no virus. Never let AV software fix an issue until you are sure it's
a virus as false positives happen on occasion and letting AV fix an issue
can screw up the OS requiring a reinstall. That goes for anytispyware
software too.
 
Richard said:
Hi.

I am using the latest version of CCleaner and the latest version of
Avast FREE. I just scanned the CCleaner folder with Avast and get NO
virus warnings.

Where did you obtain your copy of CCleaner from? I got mine from FileHipo.
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Hi Robert & everyone else who replied.

I got it from filehippo - the link from ccleaner.com
Look like it's a false positive
http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=10012

Cheers.
 
Joeythedude said:
I had the same result from AVG re the ccleaner unistall file.
I'm pretty sure i downloaded it from the cc website too.

I accept its probably a false positive.

In my case as AVG also found a reference to Dropper.pakes in my
mozilla\..\cache folder ,
i'm going to let it delete them.
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Yes it was a false positive.
It is fixed in the latest definitions.
 
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