Re: Trojan in Amaya

On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 13:17:49 +0100, Irene Vatton  
<Irene.Vatton@inrialpes.fr> wrote:

>
> On Sunday 25 December 2005 20:22, Jan Erik Sigdell wrote:
>> I downloaded Amaya 9.3. When I click the installation file, "a-squared"
>> claims that it contains Trojan-Dropper.Win32.Agent.acu.
>> How can that be?
>> JES
>> sigdell (a) siol.net
>
> I don't know what generates this message.
> Perhaps you have a problem with your antivirus tool?

It could be that the virus and Amaya happen to have some code that looks  
the same, and your virus checker uses this as a signature. (In theory it  
is possible that Amaya has a virus, but unlikely in my experience. It is  
also (very slightly more) possible that you have got a corrupted version  
with a virus in it - as far as I know there is no way to check this since  
there is no checksum/signature of the Amaya binaries. But again, it  
strikes me as unlikely...)

Which is not to say impossible.

cheers

Chaals

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