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Title: Trojan Virus in Spy Sweeper
Post by: REDACTED on March 05, 2007, 07:47:36 PM
I am getting a notification of a Trojan Virus in Program File\Webroot\SpySweeper\SpySweeperUI.exe.

The Trojan Horse is labeled Win32-Delf.BPK

Is this a real Trojan Horse or a reaction to Spy Sweeper?


Karri
Title: Re: Trojan Virus in Spy Sweeper
Post by: oldman on March 05, 2007, 08:04:00 PM
It could very well be a false positive. Submit the file to virustotal http://www.virustotal.com/xhtml/index_en.html If avast is the only one detecting it, then add it the exclution list. There are 2 lists. On access, left click the"a" icon, click on the standard shield provider, customize button, advanced tab. On demand, you can do that from the simple use interface or right click the icon and select program settings. Post back your results.
Title: Re: Trojan Virus in Spy Sweeper
Post by: DavidR on March 05, 2007, 08:04:29 PM
What is your VPS version, the latest is version 000721-1 ?
I suspect it is out of date as this FP has been in the forums (try a search for the spysweeperui.exe file) and was resolved in a VPS update.
Title: Re: Trojan Virus in Spy Sweeper
Post by: oldman on March 05, 2007, 08:11:42 PM
@DavidR

I think you may be right, as the OP has another post concerning not being able to update from awhile.
Title: Re: Trojan Virus in Spy Sweeper
Post by: REDACTED on March 05, 2007, 09:16:34 PM
When I ran a search for the spysweeper file, it came up 360592DC.pf.  However, I am having problems with Spysweeper also and am going to uninstall and install it again.
Title: Re: Trojan Virus in Spy Sweeper
Post by: DavidR on March 05, 2007, 09:25:43 PM
I said to search for the file that is being detected, and you would have found this, http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=26369.0 (http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=26369.0). It is a false positive correction that was corrected on 1 Feb 2007. So your VPS would appear to be well out of date.

Problem solved by Avast with the 1st Feb update. No more trojan reports in Spysweeper.

Humberto Carreiro

Re installing SpySweeper won't resolve the detection, only updating the avast VPS will resolve that.