AVG & Dropper.pakes trojan

[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?

 

[Marcin Domaslawski]

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

 

[Richard Urban]

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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[Pipboy]

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?

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.

 

[Otto Normalverbraucher]

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.

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.

 

[Iuvenalis]

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.

Yes it was a false positive.
It is fixed in the latest definitions.