M
Mark H
My up-to-date version of AntiSpyware is incorrectly
identifying a file as a
Trojan downloader (Trojan.Downloader.NSISdl).
The file it identified is NSISDL.DLL, which is a part of
the Nullsoft
Install System program available at
nsis.sourceforge.netand is *not* any kind
of trojan. The source code for this product is available
for inspection on
the site, and it contains no Trojan or other unsavory
code. The author of
the software has a statement at
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/index.php?
id=2&backPID=2&tt_news=24 for review.
Based on web searches, it appears that both Symantec and
McAfee have at one
time or another also misidentified this file as a
problem, but have since
corrected their virus signature updates to correct this
misidentification.
identifying a file as a
Trojan downloader (Trojan.Downloader.NSISdl).
The file it identified is NSISDL.DLL, which is a part of
the Nullsoft
Install System program available at
nsis.sourceforge.netand is *not* any kind
of trojan. The source code for this product is available
for inspection on
the site, and it contains no Trojan or other unsavory
code. The author of
the software has a statement at
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/index.php?
id=2&backPID=2&tt_news=24 for review.
Based on web searches, it appears that both Symantec and
McAfee have at one
time or another also misidentified this file as a
problem, but have since
corrected their virus signature updates to correct this
misidentification.