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castlerig
Cruncher Joined: Apr 28, 2007 Post Count: 7 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Hi all
----------------------------------------Anyone seen this, malware within a work unit. This is what avg showed: "04/04/2011, 05:13:14";"NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM";"IDP";"Process WCG_HCMD2_MAXDO_GRAPHICS_6.40_WINDOWS_INTELX86 was detected." I kind of doubt it is actual malware, but just in case can someone check. Cheers from Scotland. Castlerig [Edit 1 times, last edit by castlerig at Apr 4, 2011 4:31:59 AM] |
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Former Member
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Impossible, definitely a false positive.
----------------------------------------P.S. AVG is known to produce loads of false positives while letting REAL viruses/malware/etc. silp through its filters. P.S.2 "WCG_HCMD2_MAXDO_GRAPHICS_6.40_WINDOWS_INTELX86" is the graphical application of HCMD2 (i.e. runs when you click "Show Graphics"), not a work unit file. [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Apr 4, 2011 5:27:34 AM] |
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castlerig
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Cheers
Just needed someone to confirm what i already thought. Will inform AVG as well. Fly safe and have a good one. Castlerig |
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Former Member
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I have gotten this exact same warning also with AVG Free 2011.
I have never had an issue with AVG in the past so this one made me wonder. but why are we getting this now? I've been crunching almost a year and have been using AVG thi whole time. Vin |
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Randzo
Senior Cruncher Slovakia Joined: Jan 10, 2008 Post Count: 339 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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On Virustotal http://www.virustotal.com/
you can chceck what all AV companies think about a sample. Sample ist scanned by on demand scanner of all AV engines and results are returned, you can also search results by SHA1. But this was/is surely False positive. |
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petnek
Advanced Cruncher Czech Republic Joined: Mar 17, 2008 Post Count: 89 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I had same problems with Kaspersky antivirus. I really hate this program...
----------------------------------------Now I'm running on the Avast! antivirus and everything is OK.  |
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Bearcat
Master Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 6, 2007 Post Count: 2803 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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You can go into your settings to ignore boinc all together. I did this with MSE and stopped getting false positives.
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