Tim Eastman
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PTGui uninstall.exe trojan horse?
Posted: 8 Nov 2008 at 14:51 GMT
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AVG gave me a message about detecting a Trojan horse in PTGui uninstall.exe. Anyone else getting this? As far as I know the uninstall.exe has been there as long as the PTGui file and has not morphed into a Trojan horse.
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Randy NoWay
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Re: PTGui uninstall.exe trojan horse?
Posted: 8 Nov 2008 at 15:04 GMT
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Had the same message this morning but can't beleive it's a problem. Didn't see anything doing a search. I'd be interested in anyone elses findings!!
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Randy
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John Houghton
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Re: PTGui uninstall.exe trojan horse?
Posted: 8 Nov 2008 at 16:10 GMT
updated: 8 Nov 2008 at 16:11 GMT
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I'm sure it is a false positive. There's been a very recent update to the AVG software and users of other applications have also reported similar results. Older versions of PTGui V8 as well as the latest have also been moved to the virus vault. They can be restored from there.
John
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DorinDXN
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Re: PTGui uninstall.exe trojan horse?
Posted: 8 Nov 2008 at 17:19 GMT
updated: 8 Nov 2008 at 17:19 GMT
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Yes, same here, AVG is positive, Avira is not.
Dorin
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byron2
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Re: PTGui uninstall.exe trojan horse?
Posted: 8 Nov 2008 at 22:46 GMT
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It has been picked up, probably due to photomatix having it bundled in a torrent going round.
PAY for your software and you should be ok (I`m not pointing any fingers by the way - some virus software has flagged it as containing viruses due to the torrent)
John
www.flash360.net
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DorinDXN
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Re: PTGui uninstall.exe trojan horse?
Posted: 9 Nov 2008 at 9:32 GMT
updated: 9 Nov 2008 at 9:33 GMT
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byron2 said: It has been picked up, probably due to photomatix having it bundled in a torrent going round.
PAY for your software and you should be ok (I`m not pointing any fingers by the way - some virus software has flagged it as containing viruses due to the torrent)
John
www.flash360.net
It's ok, it is a false pozitive and it is safe BTW I've heard no one to need nor want to uninstall ptgui 
Dorin
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zxcvbnm
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Re: PTGui uninstall.exe trojan horse?
Posted: 9 Nov 2008 at 10:33 GMT
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Avg reported my firefox portable as a virus the other day. I found the option to send it for analysis (its in the virus vault) and avg had another update the same day which stopped the problem.
www.virustotal.com/ is a good site. You can upload a file and it will scan it with thirty virus checkers. So you can quickly get an idea if it is a false positive. Hard to upload a file that avg is blocking mind.
To be honest I'm planning to try avast instead as avg is getting a bit buggy and clingy.
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