LOP uninstaller a Trojan ?

[Tx2]

My NOD32 recognises the LOP uninstaller as
Win32/TrojanDownloader.Swizzor.CK trojan

The file in question is available from http://lop.com/new_uninstall.exe
Linked from http://66.220.17.157/help.html under "how do I uninstall..."

Should I be concerned, or is this some kind of 'false positive' maybe?
Are the nice people at LOP providing a Trojan to remove their products?

[FU's set]

 

[David H. Lipman]

It is not a Trojan, it is Adware.
McAfee defines this as; "Adware-Lop"

--
Dave




|
| My NOD32 recognises the LOP uninstaller as
| Win32/TrojanDownloader.Swizzor.CK trojan
|
| The file in question is available from http://lop.com/new_uninstall.exe
| Linked from http://66.220.17.157/help.html under "how do I uninstall..."
|
| Should I be concerned, or is this some kind of 'false positive' maybe?
| Are the nice people at LOP providing a Trojan to remove their products?
|
| [FU's set]

 

[pete]

It is not a Trojan, it is Adware.
McAfee defines this as; "Adware-Lop"

Lop is scumware
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=lop+scumware&meta=
Remove with Spybot S&D

 

[Tx2]

Lop is scumware
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=lop+scumware&meta=
Remove with Spybot S&D

No, No ... not LOP itself, the *uninstaller* they [LOP] provide at the
aforementioned sites.

And, FWIW, there is a version of LOP that produces a 'toolbar' across
the screen *and* on your desktop which no variant of S&D I have used has
dealt with.

 

[Tx2]

It is not a Trojan, it is Adware.
McAfee defines this as; "Adware-Lop"

NOD defines the file in question (note, the uninstaller is the file i
refer to, not the infection) as a Trojan.

Not wishing to be argumentative, but I have a lot more faith in NOD32
than I do any Mcafee product.

 

[Tx2]

[cancel issued]

 

[David H. Lipman]

Yes, yes -- The uninstaller was declared as "Adware-Lop" !

--
Dave




| No, No ... not LOP itself, the *uninstaller* they [LOP] provide at the
| aforementioned sites.
|
| And, FWIW, there is a version of LOP that produces a 'toolbar' across
| the screen *and* on your desktop which no variant of S&D I have used has
| dealt with.

 

[Tx2]

Yes, yes -- The uninstaller was declared as "Adware-Lop"

I wasn't replying to you in the first instance, nor suggesting Mcafee
had got it wrong - I was replying to someone else who was generalising
somewhat more about LOP than the specific file I had mentioned...

Your 'help' is, none-the-less, appreciated