Cat.exe : false positive

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Alex Slaets

The program cat.exe (unix cat utility for windows) is
falsely detected as the "Dutch Porn Dialer".
The file size is 16KB.
This is the output from the --ver commandline option:

cat (textutils) 2.1
Written by Torbjorn Granlund and Richard M. Stallman.

Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying
conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
 
Alex said:
The program cat.exe (unix cat utility for windows) is
falsely detected as the "Dutch Porn Dialer".
The file size is 16KB.
This is the output from the --ver commandline option:

cat (textutils) 2.1
Written by Torbjorn Granlund and Richard M. Stallman.

Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying
conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

The description of cat.exe here: http://castlecops.com/StartupList.html
says it's the MS-Connect dialler. No file size listed.
The CLSID or MD5 checksum needs to be inspected rather than the name of
the suspected file.

Steve Wechsler (akaMowGreen)
MVP Windows Server
 

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