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Re: likely false positive (?)



The more immediate issue seems to be getting a download of the archive that is not corrupt.  This happened not only on the desktop rig that I mentioned (which has both Avast and Malwarebytes on it), but on a brand new one that just has MS Security Essentials.  In both cases, neither PKZip, 7-Zip, nor WinRar could could open the XyWeb120 archive.  Can you open yours ? 

There have been times where either Avast or MBam munged downloads they objected to.  The result is typically a truncated file.  My download of 120 ran a shade over 4 Mb.  Editing their site or file whitelists generally cured this.  As an experiment, I'm going to download the file again using an older laptop that runs XP and has *no* AV on it any longer, or if necessary also a laptop that runs eCS and has no AV program.  Should I keep getting the same result, something is indeed wrong here.

Of course, if Carl is close to releasing a revised U2 collection, this may all soon be moot.


   Jordan


From: Paul Breeze
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2015 2:55 AM
Subject: Re: likely false positive (?)

Dear Jordan

I use Avast and it didn't blink when I downloaded XYweb120.

Maybe it is possible to be TOO cautious?

Best wishes

Paul



On 30/01/2015 04:25, J R FOX wrote:
> Here is the VirusTotal scan on XyWeb120, which I had to download
> elsewhere.  I probably can't even open the archive on this system,
> without first disabling Avast! AV.  There seem to be 4 or 5 out of the
> 57 AV products in agreement on this, but I'm still kind of skeptical.
>
> Does anyone know if MS Security Essentials is any good ?  (Win Defender
> does not have all that good a reputation.)
>
> btw, I did run Winprint from the Japanese Sourceforge through this, and
> it was not flagged.
>
>
>
>    Jordan
>