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McAfee showing Hijackthis as virus
Name: goki Date: April 4, 2005 at 17:47:57 Pacific OS: win xp p4 CPU/Ram: 512
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Im trying to fix a problem with my comp, but when i dowload Hijackthis after 3 minutes mcafee cleans it and says its a virus. Why is it doing that isnt Hijackthis a virus free program?
Name: Paul Fahrenbach Date: April 4, 2005 at 18:04:54 Pacific
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McAfee 8.0i also removed Spybot S&D. What Ver. of McAfee are you useing ?
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Response Number 2
Name: goki Date: April 4, 2005 at 18:08:18 Pacific
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i got 9.0 just got it.
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Response Number 3
Name: HiJinx Date: April 4, 2005 at 18:22:52 Pacific
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Have you updated your McAfee yet? Also make sure you're using the latest version of HijackThis (1.99.1). The following is a quote from the author... [Update] It seems McAfee is detecting the new HijackThis version as W32/Generic.worm!p2p. It is not the first time this happened and probably not the last time either. There is no virus in HijackThis. McAfee incorrectly detects the PE compression method I use on all of my programs as a generic Kazaa worm. I will try to contact McAfee about this and see if the incorrect detection can be removed in their next update. [Update 2] Success! McAfee has put out new definitions that no longer detect HijackThis 1.99.1 as a virus. ^_^
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Response Number 4
Name: goki Date: April 4, 2005 at 18:32:27 Pacific
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I dowloaded the 1.99.1 version but still it detects it as a virus.\=
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Response Number 5
Name: HiJinx Date: April 4, 2005 at 19:08:45 Pacific
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You didn't say if you updated the virus definitions or not. If you have, and it's still getting flagged, McAfee may have an option to ignore the file.
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