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pcclean3453

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avast! wants to auto sandbox popular screensavers in Win7
« on: April 18, 2011, 12:49:07 PM »
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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Re: avast! wants to auto sandbox popular screensavers in Win7
« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2011, 01:21:24 PM »
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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Re: avast! wants to auto sandbox popular screensavers in Win7
« Reply #2 on: April 18, 2011, 01:35:14 PM »
Exactly.................If its so popular show us a link please.

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Re: avast! wants to auto sandbox popular screensavers in Win7
« Reply #3 on: April 18, 2011, 01:55:02 PM »
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.
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Re: avast! wants to auto sandbox popular screensavers in Win7
« Reply #4 on: April 18, 2011, 02:02:14 PM »
Probably something from a site like "free screen savers" which always packs adware into there products.

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Re: avast! wants to auto sandbox popular screensavers in Win7
« Reply #5 on: April 18, 2011, 02:05:59 PM »
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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Re: avast! wants to auto sandbox popular screensavers in Win7
« Reply #6 on: April 18, 2011, 02:41:33 PM »
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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Re: avast! wants to auto sandbox popular screensavers in Win7
« Reply #7 on: April 18, 2011, 10:40:59 PM »
Guys, I didn't download it from the internet. It comes with Win7 screensavers.

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Re: avast! wants to auto sandbox popular screensavers in Win7
« Reply #8 on: April 18, 2011, 10:54:02 PM »
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....
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Re: avast! wants to auto sandbox popular screensavers in Win7
« Reply #9 on: April 18, 2011, 10:55:49 PM »
I'm updating...

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Re: avast! wants to auto sandbox popular screensavers in Win7
« Reply #10 on: April 18, 2011, 10:57:19 PM »
I'm updating...

Ok, please report back.
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Re: avast! wants to auto sandbox popular screensavers in Win7
« Reply #11 on: April 18, 2011, 10:58:17 PM »
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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Re: avast! wants to auto sandbox popular screensavers in Win7
« Reply #12 on: April 18, 2011, 11:06:23 PM »
Popular Screensavers.

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Re: avast! wants to auto sandbox popular screensavers in Win7
« Reply #13 on: April 18, 2011, 11:07:19 PM »
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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Re: avast! wants to auto sandbox popular screensavers in Win7
« Reply #14 on: April 18, 2011, 11:18:01 PM »
Update success, by the way.
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