Hi malware fighters,
How much harm it does depends partly on what you have to do to get rid of this stuff. If you can't find normal uninstallers, or they don't work, or they wind up loading more ads on your computer, you'll call this software malicious. But compared to spyware, its fairly mild. But that will not produce a Trojan FP, would it?
Kaspersky is found to see trojans in uninstallers, while there are not. So clearly
False Positives. But this malware really exists: Emcodec.D for instance works via a bogus installer and drops an uninstaller. There is nothing false about this one.
Identifying and analyzing spyware is a complex challenge. New forms of spyware are constantly under development, and the same technology that can make spyware malicious and unwanted also appears in software that users want to keep and use on their computers, such as antivirus software. It's not always possible for software to determine whether a program is something the customer wants to preserve or remove.
So the complexity of the thing, and the dual nature would lay at the core of this problem. So one conclusion is with uninstallers flagged, check and double-check before making a decisive decision upon what action to take.
polonus
