ME Consultant with a virus?!?!

[Billet Sean]

I just got AVG antivirus and it's telling me there's 2 trojan virus' with it. So I deleted it and redownloaded it again and it gets flagged as having 2 virus'. Anyone else get this? And is it just something in the program that the AVG thinks is a Virus?

[mrainey]

This is a false positive. A few antivirus programs throw up an alert because I use encryption software (EXECryptor) to discourage reverse engineering. This is a common problem when using encryption and/or compression software.

Tonight I submitted a copy of MEPro to www.virustotal.com for analysis by thirty-seven different antivirus programs. The results are contained in the attached pdf.


I have never had a verified report of a virus in my software. It's bad enough that users have to worry so much about a virus infection - but the developer also has to worry about crackers and false positives!


I'll submit the file to AVG so they can fix their definitions.


Mike

[mrainey]

I received the following message back from AVG (they're fast!). The file I sent them for analysis was a copy of the currently-available trial version of ME Consultant Professional. This is the one that's currently downloadable from my website.



"Dear Sir/Madam,

thank you for your email.

Please let us inform you that all the samples attached to your
previous e-mail are virus-free based on the analysis and AVG with
latest anti-virus database is not detecting these files.

Thank you for sending and your cooperation.

Best regards,

Tomas Kuba
AVG Technical Support"