On Boxing Day, WinXDVDRipperPlatinum was announced as a free download. It's now being flagged as having a virus.
I'm not sure what is going on as I had just downloaded the Zip file, but I hadn't actually installed it. Nether the less, my virus scanner reported a virus not only in the Zip file, but also infecting a System Restore files.
If you downloaded this file, even if you didn't install it, you consider your machine infected.
It shows as a heuristic virus (so it could be a false positive) …. but its shows up under both Comodo and Onecare.
That's a bit strange, i've installed it and have been using it for a while - McAffee did not report a virus.
I'm using VirusScan version 13.15
The problem is that virus writers test their malware against all the common AV scanners regularly. So its actually rare for Norton or McAffee to detect a virus early on.
For free software like this just head to www.cnetdownload.com. You can be very positive that it won't have any malware/virus… and it could be telling that winxdvd seems to be absent from there.
Just be sure to click Free in the narrow search options on the left.
hmmm probably better safe than sorry, ill remove when im home and run a scan. thx
That's "bonus" software we could do without! Will have to scan my copy…
Thats not good news, sorry to hear that , hve you got a link containing the info and anything to confirm it is not a false positive?
Also what AV are you using ?