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Trojan:Win32/Critet.BS - False positive from Defender?
Boggin:
@ fabrikator - I'll pass this on about 4.0.14 not being affected by this.
ergo:
I would have thought that that shouldn't be our job, we just purchased the license. I had the impression that the program is supposed was developed with Microsoft's blessing. It's not right for every user to have to struggle with Microsoft to make sense of it. I thought the idea was you do the work and we pay for the license. So now we're supposed to multiply efforts between us all when we have no idea what is going on.
I don't want to whitelist it because maybe how do I know the program doesn't actually have a Trojan in it? As it is I'm getting paranoid with all this cyber hacking. E.g., from what I read I'm pretty sure Kaspersky virus checker seems to have been hacking user's computers on behalf of Putin (the US govt is barring its use)
I just got the trojan message from Microsoft Defender today, I bet there will be lots more than already reported it. Isn't it Tweaking.com's job to make sure that we are safe?
Rani
Boggin:
Read Reply #1 and Reply #2.
I've passed on what fabrikator had found to my Support which will be passed onto Shane.
As you will see from my Reply #1 I've also once experienced an AV program conflict which eventually went.
coover:
After much consternation while trying to place the portable version of 4.0.0.15 onto my hard drive and then pinning a shortcut on the taskbar, my preferred method of installation, I did this ... 1. I turned off Defender "Real-Time Protection" 2. Downloaded the portable version of 4.0.0.15, 3. Extracted the download, 4. Placed the extracted file in the location I prefer, 6. Pinned the .exe onto the taskbar, and 7. Excluded the 4.0.0.15 folder in the location where I placed it.
But I agree with ergo (above) who said that the user should not have to go through all this hassle in order to use the software. Tweaking.com should have tested the software against all the major AV applications before releasing it. That said, however, fabrikator mentioned that defender did not catch the (in this case) false positive at the time it was released. It was only after an Defender update that the false positive was reported. So, in this case, the problem was not with Tweaking.com. But the problem did become tweaking.com's when the false reports started coming, and they must fix the problem as soon as possible. I expect a new version, 4.0.0.16 with the fix out soon.
Boggin:
I disagree - the problem is with WD and MSE Definition updates and MS should be fixing it.
When an AV program starts blocking a legit program then the protocol is to report that to the AV vendor as I did when I had problems with Norton kicking it out.
Norton has also blocked AdwCleaner for me but that soon passed as the Definitions were updated, which may be the case after the next WD and MSE updates.
However, I have passed this on.
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