Dave T. wrote:
> TeddyBare wrote:
>>
>>
>> "Dave T." <davey@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>> news:16fMj.1327$7Z2.1181@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> I just bought phone tools v. 5.0 to use with my Razr v3, and prior to
>>> installation I scanned the disk and found that a worm named
>>> "worm.win32.autorun.k" was on the disk. Obviously, I didn't install
>>> the program. Kaspersky calls this a "High Risk" item.
>>>
>>> Anyone know how or why this would be there, or is this a
false-positive?
>>> --
>>> Dave T.
>>>
>>>
>>> "Your attitude serves as a lens through which you see life, and it's
>>> best when that lens is focused on the positive possibilities." -
>>> Ralph Marston
>>
>>
>> The Best Buy in Ogden, UT has been notified and they are looking into
it.
>>
>> Have you contacted the store you bought it from about it as they will
>> want to know so they can take action.
>
> Not certain at this point what to do. I get absolutely no response from
> Motorola, but they are famous for that.
>
> I scanned the file at Virusscan.jotti and virustotal, and only one or
> two engines threw up a flag on each of them, and they all warned of a
> different piece of malware. I am beginning to feel that it is a
> false-positive, but paranoia has me in it's grip. d8(>
>
> What I find REALLY odd is that on the Motorola forum no one has ever
> heard of Version 5.
>
Dave;
I took a look at my MPT (version 4.5.6a August 07) and found a file
named MPT_TEST_info.exe (marked as version 3.1.1.0). I submitted it to
jotti and it came back clean, no malware alerts whatsoever. The md5
hash on the file is: c9345168269bf47b722a92f22f321beb.
Interestingly, MPT_TEST_info is compiled by AutoIt
<http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/compiled.html>.
The author of
autoit talks about getting false positives pretty regularly. He's
asked that anyone who gets a false positive to follow up w/the developer
and to feel free to drop him a line as well...
<http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/compiled.html>
(the contact linky
is busted but here's one that works:
<http://www.autoitscript.com/email_us.shtml>
Fwiw, I've used bvrp's MPT for a few years now and find the quality &
flexibility of the s/w to be seriously lacking. I don't use Outlook nor
Lotus Notes so the whole experience has been... kludgy. The sup****t's
been ok for me but it just adds to this feeling that my data is being
managed by a black box. Because of my experience w/MPT, my next choice
of phones will depend on an open source project being available to
sup****t it. Either that or, at the very least the "semi-open" S60 OS.
g'luck & please keep us up-to-date
-Craig
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