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Graleth
Cruncher Joined: Jan 22, 2019 Post Count: 1 Status: Offline |
Updated to latest version of World community Grid 7.14.3 x86 for Windows 10.
My AVG FREE anti virus software reported a threat of IDP.generic located in C:\Windows\boinc.scr . It then placed it in quarantine. Would you like to check your source code ? Do you need a copy of my suspect file ? Regards, Graleth |
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QuantumEthos
Senior Cruncher Joined: Jul 2, 2011 Post Count: 336 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Potentially yes, but ID is most probably the way it send's data..
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Updated to latest version of World community Grid 7.14.3 x86 for Windows 10. My AVG FREE anti virus software reported a threat of IDP.generic located in C:\Windows\boinc.scr . It then placed it in quarantine. Would you like to check your source code ? Do you need a copy of my suspect file ? Regards, Graleth boinc.scr is part of the standard code screensaver function of BOINC. Doubtlessly a false positive, you can really do without that file if you never use the screensaver. In the OS set screensaver to None to ensure the function is disabled. |
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giba
Veteran Cruncher Brazil Joined: Dec 2, 2004 Post Count: 846 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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It happens in the same way with me. Just restore from quarentine and aprove.
Probably WCG will check it in the future. Screensaver isn't a show stop0er to run Boinc client with WCG. keep crunching  |
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hchc
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Aug 15, 2006 Post Count: 746 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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VirusTotal shows 0 out of 72 engines detected malware in boinc.scr from the version bundled with BOINC 7.16.5 x64 for Windows. Including AVG showing no malware detected.
----------------------------------------Checksums: SHA2-256: 63f57c7ccbebc5dad06d14bd87b7a3accc0817e5ecf06b5fb3e8c4c435a40497 SHA2-512: e605822e42d8fa27328605611012fbbbf200bf0daae5f42fec5dbe9f5b2a3bb30c841985af9fa80b3d62e319177304a53777 e9af4300f72047d904b77c43471c I don't have access to the version of boinc.scr that's bundled with WCG 7.14.3 in case it's any different. It's possible AVG Free uses a different engine than the AVG that VirusTotal uses. Feel free to upload your copy to VirusTotal and let us know if it shows the same results of IDP.generic. At any rate, I generally whitelist the folders (directories) of anything related to distributed computing, so things like C:\Windows\boinc.scr and C:\Program Files\BOINC and C:\ProgramData\BOINC so anti-malware programs don't flag any false positives.
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