Antivirus Pgm and massdown

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whodunit

I was given an AV program for my antiquated laptop for which few AV
programs will run.

An AV scan with sophos determines it contains massdown.exe which is not
classified as a virus but "malware"

Can I install this safely on my little laptop and if so, what, if any
bad effects might await me?

Thanks for any nice, useful answers to my question.
 
whodunit said:
I was given an AV program for my antiquated laptop for which few AV
programs will run.
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Does this AV have a name - or is it a secret AV program?
An AV scan with sophos determines it contains massdown.exe which is not
classified as a virus but "malware"
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You scanned the mystery AV with Sophos and it found a potentially
malicious program (hacktool).
Can I install this safely on my little laptop and if so, what, if any
bad effects might await me?
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Sounds to me like the mystery AV is a trojan form of the massdown.exe
hacktool. I'm not sure, but it might be a downloader trojan in which case
*anything* can happen - it depends on just what gets downloaded and
executed.
Thanks for any nice, useful answers to my question.
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Submit the file to virustotal.com or jotti.org to see what opinions some
other AVs have about the file. I don't think you want to execute that
program.
 
Does this AV have a name - or is it a secret AV program?

You scanned the mystery AV with Sophos and it found a potentially
malicious program (hacktool).


Sounds to me like the mystery AV is a trojan form of the massdown.exe
hacktool. I'm not sure, but it might be a downloader trojan in which
case *anything* can happen - it depends on just what gets downloaded
and executed.
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thanks for the site names. what type of analysis do they generall give?
it's a downloader but it might be to register the program, not sure
 
whodunit said:
thanks for the site names. what type of analysis do they generall give?
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They identify most known malware. Several AV's and AM detection
engines are used.
it's a downloader but it might be to register the program, not sure
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Not likely, Sophos is seldom wrong about what it detects.

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