BetaNews download worm

[Mike89]

Just tried to download the newest Imgburn. Used the BetaNews link. Norton antiviris picked up a trojan called "Downloader" and got rid of it. Thought someone would like to know. From now on I'm just going to use the Imgburn link.

[Cynthia]

No problems with AVG or Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware on the file from BetaNews.

[Mike89]

Dunno. All I know is I went there and NAV 2008 auto protect picked it right up (called it Downloader Virus) and gave quite a bit of info on it, then said it got rid of it. Must have been something for it to do all that.

 

AVG is known for giving a lot of false positives. Dunno how well it detects. NAV 2008 is among the lowest for false positives.

[volvofl10]

no problem with kaspersky AV

[Altercuno]

Avira AV personal picked nothing up...

[LIGHTNING UK!]

It's got exactly the same file hash as the ImgBurn.com mirror one - so basically it's 100% fine.

[LOCOENG]

NAV 2008 auto protect picked it right up (called it Downloader Virus) and gave quite a bit of info on it

 

Should've posted all that information

[Mike89]

Ok, it looks like all is well then. I was just reporting my experience. Dunno if that came from another webpage that was open even though I wasn't viewing it at the time or what.

[volvofl10]

No problem Mike , better to report anything unusual than to not say anything at all

[LIGHTNING UK!]

NSIS based installers are forever falsely getting picked up as viruses, it just means the AV people haven't gotten round to tweaking their definitions after a new version was released (in this case, NSIS 2.38).