False Positives
Don’t worry, this has nothing to do with Autorun Eater’s performance. Since Autorun Eater 1.0, it has been tagged by a few anti-virus softwares as a malware. But these are of course false positive results.
The following AVs detects Autorun Eater as a malware:
eSafe
7.0.15.0 2007.10.10 suspicious Trojan/Worm
Panda
9.0.0.4 2007.10.13 suspicious file
VBA32
3.12.2.4 2007.10.14 Trojan.Win32.Agent.bop
Webwasher-Gateway
6.0.1 2007.10.13 Worm.Win32.ModifiedUPX.gen!90 (suspicious)
Avast!
Win32:Agent-OBU
I’ve contacted all the tech support of all the affected AVs and they’ve fixed it.
Old McDonald’s Farm would like to assure you that no personal information is collected through this software nor does it contain any spyware, adware or viruses.
Tags: application, autorun eater, false positives, issues, security, software
December 6, 2007 at 11:46 pm
Avast disallows execution of oldmcdonald.exe , Win32:Agent-OBU [Trj].
December 6, 2007 at 11:50 pm
Free the source code.
December 16, 2007 at 3:38 am
Sigh, another classic case of false positives by AV companies. For everyone’s info and sake, Autorun Eater was created using the AutoIt v3 language which can be found at http://www.autoitscript.com .
It is most regretted that a number of new worms in the wild are made using the very same language. So it isn’t suprising at all if some AV decides to flag Autorun Eater as a malware.
I’ll report this matter to Avast ASAP. Be rest assured that Autorun Eater is not a malware of any kind.