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I think I got a trojan from a freeware...

Postby AirForcePi1o7 » Sat Aug 28, 2010 1:51 pm

In the "FSX - Military" Section, I think I got a trojan from
http://www.simviation.com/simviation/?t ... 64&page=45
The KC-135...
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Re: I think I got a trojan from a freeware...

Postby JBaymore » Sat Aug 28, 2010 9:51 pm

All files are checked before placing them into the file library.  Past history says there have been about zero occurances of this kind of situation........ but we'll take a look again anyway.  Unlikely to a very high degree.  I've alerted the webmaster.

It is possible that you might have had a false positive. 

What antivirus are you running?  What trojan did it say you had?

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Re: I think I got a trojan from a freeware...

Postby BigTruck » Sat Aug 28, 2010 10:26 pm

I have downloaded and installed the KC-135 with no issues here.  Like John said it was likely a false positive.  I am running the newest version of McAfee and nothing has shown up after two scans.  What antivirus are you running and when was the last update you did?
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Re: I think I got a trojan from a freeware...

Postby Hagar » Sun Aug 29, 2010 2:00 am

Just to confirm what the others have said. I downloaded the file & scanned it with Avira & Malwarebytes. No virus or malicious items detected.
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Re: I think I got a trojan from a freeware...

Postby AirForcePi1o7 » Sun Aug 29, 2010 4:35 pm

I was using AVG Free... I'm not sure what else would have the trojan... Because It said it found it inside the KC-135. I was not downloading anything else, except for some B-52s from this website. But I know it wasn't a failure due to my AVG Free, because as I said, I got a trojan then I had to restore it then scanned before... Not sure then.
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Re: I think I got a trojan from a freeware...

Postby AirForcePi1o7 » Sun Aug 29, 2010 4:37 pm

Also Not sure of the types of Trojan Installers. I just knew it installed fake Anti Viruses and tried to make me buy them and infected everything. Oh and it said it had 3 Trojan Installers.
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Re: I think I got a trojan from a freeware...

Postby Sir_Crashalot » Sun Aug 29, 2010 4:47 pm

Just scanned the file with the latest AVG Free version 9. No infections found.

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Re: I think I got a trojan from a freeware...

Postby AirForcePi1o7 » Sun Aug 29, 2010 4:51 pm

Then I'm clueless where the trojan came from... Maybe an infected download server? Or maybe I accidentally went to a site and it put it there? I dont know. I was on my normal websites...
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Re: I think I got a trojan from a freeware...

Postby Steve M » Sun Aug 29, 2010 6:32 pm

I just scanned with Vipre, the best payware I've ever had. Scanned twice zipped and twice unzipped. No negative
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Re: I think I got a trojan from a freeware...

Postby AirForcePi1o7 » Sun Aug 29, 2010 7:46 pm

As I said, it said it came from that file. It wasn't malware either... but Yeah, not sure how it got there then.
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Re: I think I got a trojan from a freeware...

Postby DarkOdius » Mon Aug 30, 2010 6:47 pm

Downloaded and scanned with Both AVG, & Eset security suite, No virus's or trojans hidden in the zip file...
The only other thing that I can thing of is that its from something that you have downloaded from somewhere else, As I have downloaded from here for numerous years now and have never once had a problem!
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Re: I think I got a trojan from a freeware...

Postby JBaymore » Mon Aug 30, 2010 10:06 pm

Also Not sure of the types of Trojan Installers. I just knew it installed fake Anti Viruses and tried to make me buy them and infected everything. Oh and it said it had 3 Trojan Installers.


This description is a well known classic virus infection........ and a darn BAD one.
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Re: I think I got a trojan from a freeware...

Postby AirForcePi1o7 » Tue Aug 31, 2010 1:44 pm

Um, Yeah.. How would I get rid of it? Im sure its not on there, since I think AVG is one of the best, isnt it? (free atleasT)
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Re: I think I got a trojan from a freeware...

Postby AirForcePi1o7 » Tue Aug 31, 2010 3:36 pm

I just rescanned (While putting the lever thingy for the internet to "OFF") And I found 2 trojans (Generic) and 2 adware. Deleted them, Rescanned... Found nothing...
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Re: I think I got a trojan from a freeware...

Postby alrot » Tue Aug 31, 2010 4:00 pm

Hey THAT's False!!

I have check all the hidden files there are
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