avast! wants to auto sandbox popular screensavers in Win7

[Dieselman]

There is no such thing as Popular Screensavers that come with stock Windows 7. Either someone download it and installed it or it came pre-installed with your computer.

[ArtemisF0wl]

Here are the files it said it opened with:

File C:\Windows\SysWOW64\f3PSS


Opened by: C:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe

i have no such file on my pc...  a search for that file name turns up as mywebsearch, although its running from a different location


i think your username may be a bit of a misnomer

[Dieselman]

Go to xww.popularscreensavers.com . It's an adware infected site.

[Lisandro]

Go to www . popularscreensavers . com . It's an adware infected site.

If so, please, break the link! Do not post live url of malware.

[Dieselman]

Tech please think for a minute. I said adware. Not malware. I typed that in on my phone. The site is not maliciously linked but any site such as this is always packed with adware. Usually toolbar stuff.

[Lisandro]

Adware, for me, is a kind of malware. No live links either imho.

[Dieselman]

For anyone that doubts me. Popular screensavers will install "My Web Search Toolbar". Its adaware. So Avast was not wrong telling this person that. These screen savers did not come preinstalled either. See my screen shot.Sorry for using ImageShack. Its just easier and quicker.

[Dieselman]

http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/www.popularscreensavers.com