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Re: Intel Bluetooth false positives
« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2011, 09:15:55 PM »
Maybe a False Positive, but look likes it is Intel's Fault too!
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Re: Intel Bluetooth false positives
« Reply #2 on: March 22, 2011, 09:18:01 PM »
Maybe a False Positive, but look likes it is Intel's Fault too!

Exactly how's this Intel fault?  ???

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Re: Intel Bluetooth false positives
« Reply #3 on: March 22, 2011, 09:26:19 PM »
Exactly how's this Intel fault?  ???

I've not checked the file yet as I'm busy, but usually a bad packing/compile or not signing the file result in such problems. (or even uncommon setup script which could be the problem as what I see in detection names)
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Re: Intel Bluetooth false positives
« Reply #4 on: March 22, 2011, 11:46:12 PM »
hmmm...  I came to this forum looking for info and this is the closest thing I found.  I have a brand-new Dell XPS just out of the box today.  I installed Avast, did a scan, and got this report:

btplayerctrl.exe is infected by win32:Malware-gen

This is in the Intel\Bluetooth directory.  Should I assume this is a false positive?

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Re: Intel Bluetooth false positives
« Reply #5 on: March 22, 2011, 11:53:43 PM »
Should I assume this is a false positive?
Most Likely yes :)
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Re: Intel Bluetooth false positives
« Reply #6 on: March 22, 2011, 11:55:13 PM »
Has these been checked for instance?
Product:   Intel PROSet\Wireless Bluetooth
Company:   Intel Corporation
Description:   Bluetooth Media Service
Version:   1.0.0.40
MD5:   03A7341E94ACD92E0831336D4F3ACE92
SHA1:   B79EE6B0F81533962635CDCDA6765897A941D087
SHA256:   B7BF8B549F2E1508E13568A735C20E799751143DE7D58728100E0EB527D39AC6
Size:   1298496
Directory:   %PROGRAMFILES%\Intel\Bluetooth\mediasrv.exe
Operating System:   Windows 7

There were bugs in the software way back in 2007, something could have happened again, or just a FP,
there is malware like this:
http://www.prevx.com/filenames/1433731098718421003-X1/OBEXSRV.EXE.html
and
http://www.prevx.com/filenames/2537676002901419612-X1/MEDIASRV.EXE.html


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Re: Intel Bluetooth false positives
« Reply #7 on: March 23, 2011, 12:57:07 AM »
Anyone submitted this via http://www.avast.com/contact-form.php?loadStyles yet?

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Re: Intel Bluetooth false positives
« Reply #8 on: March 23, 2011, 03:47:38 AM »
I've submitted all files from Chest. avast team has them. I wish they could say something about.
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Re: Intel Bluetooth false positives
« Reply #9 on: March 25, 2011, 12:46:11 AM »
Wow! Wow!
You're brave. Even against a "problematic" virustotal results you've added them as false positives.
Congratulations! Shows your good work and how virustotal aggressive behavior is not an indication (always) of a better product.
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Re: Intel Bluetooth false positives
« Reply #11 on: March 25, 2011, 11:50:56 AM »
And the eternal champions of false positives: Avira, Emsisoft, F-Secure and Prevx. ;D

The Avira stuff is probably caused by High heuristics (didn't check, no machine w/ Avira at hand ATM). PrevX/Emsisoft - yeah, highly annoying, happens all the time. No experience with F-Secure. Whatever, thanks to Avast for fixing this.  8)

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Re: Intel Bluetooth false positives
« Reply #12 on: March 25, 2011, 01:31:17 PM »
The Avira stuff is probably caused by High heuristics
It's always the same...
People applaud it when it detects and forgot to mention when it messes.
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Re: Intel Bluetooth false positives
« Reply #13 on: March 25, 2011, 01:37:41 PM »
F-Secure is using Bitdefender engine....but are not on same update...yet

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Re: Intel Bluetooth false positives
« Reply #14 on: March 25, 2011, 09:58:57 PM »
The Avira stuff is probably caused by High heuristics (didn't check, no machine w/ Avira at hand ATM).
This detection name is not related to High or Low heuristics.
anyway, I could not find any malware detectd by avira in installed setups (Links in first post)
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