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BEWARE- Essential PIM Freeware - Contains a TROJAN

May 25, 2010 9:17PM PDT

I downloaded the above after reading the reviews and because it was an editor's choice, I found it to be a excellent piece of software,just what I was looking for and it was also free, what a bonus, but sadly it contained the Trojan BackDoor.Hupigon5.ARZS. Needless to say, it has now been uninstalled.

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Thanks for the info, I will have the CNET Download.com team
May 26, 2010 7:34AM PDT

investigate to see what they find.

Thanks!
-Lee

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Update: The download team scanned the title and it's clean.
May 27, 2010 6:39AM PDT

The title came clean as none of their tools red flagged it. They said it is a false positive.

Hope this helps.

Thanks again for reporting it.

Cheers!
-Lee

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Essential PIM Software - False Positive
May 27, 2010 11:37PM PDT

Thanks for the speedy reply Lee, re the above piece of software. The back door trojan cropped up after AVG security scanned my system, it also found 13 other trojans which got me worried enough to remove the said software from my computer system. Is AVG noted for giving false positive's?

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The team didn't give me details, but they ususally run....
May 28, 2010 12:20AM PDT

them through all the major AVs utilties and I'm pretty certain AVG is one of them.

I'll see what they say about AVG. It may take sometime for them to get back to me on this.

Thanks!
-Lee

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They got back to sooner than I thought...
May 28, 2010 12:46AM PDT

It is a false positive given by AVG.

I also ran a scan of that download and used this handy tool (http://www.virustotal.com/) that some of the mods use here and it came back clean. Give it try yourself.

Cheers!
-Lee

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Essential PIM Software - False Positive
May 29, 2010 4:09AM PDT

Thanks once again Lee for the speedy reply and the information you have provided, very useful. I will use it to check out the other software that AVG said contained Trojans, as a cross check.

Kind regards.