Dan said:
ZoneAlarm tells me nirsoft is known to include spyware, so I didn't try it.
No, it warns (or should warn) you that it is a PUP (Probably Unwanted
Program). That is not malware. It is often hackware but if YOU install it
then YOU chose to use it. None of Nirsoft's utilities miraculously appear
on your host unless you downloaded them and/or installed them (some might
run without having to install). Nirsoft has some utilities that can hack
into programs or registry entries to extract passwords but it YOUR choice to
use them. Based on the capability of Nirsoft's programs, these same AV
programs that warn about Nirsoft should be warning against SysInternals, too
(except they never did even before Microsoft bought SysInternals).