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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: pcclean3453 on April 18, 2011, 12:49:07 PM
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Why does avast! do this? It's the usual sandboxing message, but I'm starting to wonder if the screensavers are infected somehow?
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Can we get the link to those "popular screen savers" if you have downloaded from the internet? modify the link to hxxp and post.
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Exactly.................If its so popular show us a link please.
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I'm not having any of the default Win7 screensavers being flagged by the autosandbox.
Probably you're using non standard ones and, maybe, one or another could be suspicious.
You can also submit the *.scr file to www.virustotal.com
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Probably something from a site like "free screen savers" which always packs adware into there products.
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Probably something from a site like "free screen savers" which always packs adware into there products.
Could be. We need a reply from the OP.
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If there was an adware included, it would be reported as an ordinary detection (provided it's detected, of course).
I'd say the screensaver executable is packed by a runtime packer - which the heuristics considers suspicious (amongst other things) and offers the sandboxing.
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Guys, I didn't download it from the internet. It comes with Win7 screensavers.
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Guys, I didn't download it from the internet. It comes with Win7 screensavers.
Update to the latest version.
6.0.1091 was just released....
asyn
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I'm updating...
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I'm updating...
Ok, please report back.
Thanks,
asyn
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I somehow don't think a program update would change this behavior...
A default Win 7 screensaver? Which one in particular?
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Popular Screensavers.
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Here are the files it said it opened with:
File C:\Windows\SysWOW64\f3PSS
Opened by: C:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe
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Update success, by the way.
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There is no such thing as Popular Screensavers that come with stock Windows 7. Either someone download it and installed it or it came pre-installed with your computer.
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Here are the files it said it opened with:
File C:\Windows\SysWOW64\f3PSS
Opened by: C:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe
i have no such file on my pc... a search for that file name turns up as mywebsearch, although its running from a different location
i think your username may be a bit of a misnomer ;D
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Go to xww.popularscreensavers.com . It's an adware infected site.
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Go to www . popularscreensavers . com . It's an adware infected site.
If so, please, break the link! Do not post live url of malware.
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Tech please think for a minute. I said adware. Not malware. I typed that in on my phone. The site is not maliciously linked but any site such as this is always packed with adware. Usually toolbar stuff.
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Adware, for me, is a kind of malware. No live links either imho.
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For anyone that doubts me. Popular screensavers will install "My Web Search Toolbar". Its adaware. So Avast was not wrong telling this person that. These screen savers did not come preinstalled either. See my screen shot.Sorry for using ImageShack. Its just easier and quicker.
(http://i54.tinypic.com/2rh43cx.png)
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http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/www.popularscreensavers.com