Posts by Jakob

1) Message boards : BOINC Manager : BOINC 5.4.11 is released (Message 5255)
Posted 9 Aug 2006 by Jakob
Post:
To my surprise my spyware-checker (Lavasofts Ad-Aware) reported that the file contained the adware "DesktopMedia".

I just checked with Ad-Aware SE Personal, Build 1.06R1 with latest updates and didn't find a thing. Can you recheck and post the log, please?


Very strange - when scanning with Ad-Aware SE Plus 1.06R1 (newest updates) nothing comes up.

But when I try to start the BOINC setup-file, Ad-Watch (the on-the-fly scanner) gives this:

--start log--
09-08-2006 07:11:52> Harmful process identified(PID:1380)
09-08-2006 07:11:52> This object was found active in memory (Blocked)
09-08-2006 07:11:52> Object:boinc_5.4.11_windows_intelx86[1].exe
09-08-2006 07:11:52> Path:C:\\test\\
09-08-2006 07:11:52> Category:Adware
09-08-2006 07:11:52> Vendor:Adware.DesktopMedia
09-08-2006 07:11:52> Comment:desktopmediasetup.exe
--end log--

It may be relevant that I download from this site - in case there are several mirrors: http://einstein.aei.mpg.de/download/boinc/dl/boinc_5.4.11_windows_intelx86.exe

Regards

Jakob
2) Message boards : BOINC Manager : BOINC 5.4.11 is released (Message 5241)
Posted 8 Aug 2006 by Jakob
Post:
Download the new 5.4.11 from http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php


While I don't have the problem with McAfee I still downloaded the new version.

To my surprise my spyware-checker (Lavasofts Ad-Aware) reported that the file contained the adware "DesktopMedia".

I expect (and hope :-) ) that this is a false positive, but someone at BOINC should probably check into this.

Regards

Jakob from Denmark



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