smitRem is NOT infected, and it is still widely recommended and used in the internet community. This FALSE POSITIVE has been reported to Avast many times by many people in the malware removal community, myself included, yet they have yet to respond to any of us.
UPX packing does not always mean infection, nor does a process manipulation tool. If Avast would take the time to see what the tool does, and why it has UPX packing and not 1, but 2 process manipulation apps, instead of relying solely on their generic heuristics patterns, they would agree smitRem is not a malicious or infected tool, but a helpful, effective tool used to remove a family of infections that even their own application can't.
AVG responded straight away, and removed it from their detections, as have several others.
smitRem has been downloaded nearly 2 million times, has been and still is recommended by Symantec's Support personnel, McAfee Support, Trend Support, and even Microsoft's PCSafety virus help hotline, to name a few.
Please note the MS MVP logo displayed on my geekstogo page ........... then ask yourself if you truely believe that I would distribute infected files, or if MS would recognize me for doing so.
Dave (noahdfear) Fear
MS MVP 2006