Like I said VCatch is crap if it identifies McAfee's Stinger as a virus.
Let's be certain. You obtained Stinger from McAfee {
http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/ } or
from somewhere else ?
Since you already tried Avast...try one of the following.
AVG -
http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl_free.php - FREE
CA eTrust -
http://www.my-etrust.com/microsoft/index.cfm - FREE for one year.
Dave
| In message <
[email protected]>, David H. Lipman
| >Basically -- VCatch basic is crap "IF" you are talking about
| >STINGER.EXE from mcAfee as this
| >removal tool is NOT a virus. However, we don't know what you are doing
| >and *maybe* you did
| >something that actually got STINGER.EXE infected...
| >
| >In any case,
| >Please go to one or more of the below online scanners and perform a
| >scan of your platform
| >then report back your results.
| >
| >Trend:
| >
http://housecall.antivirus.com
| >
http://housecall.trendmicro.com
| >
| >McAfee:
| >
http://www.mcafee.com/myapps/mfs/default.asp
| >
| >Panda:
| >
http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/
| >
| >Symantec:
| >
http://security.symantec.com/
| >
| >Dave
| >
| >
| >
| >| >| Hi everyone,
| >|
| >| I was d/l Sting.exe as someone suggested [can't remember who, sorry] and
| >| my existing Virus Checker [VCatch basic] came up with the following:
| >|
| >| Advanced Malicious Application Detection -
| >| Suspicious characteristics in file stinger.exe
| >| Malicious probability: 97%
| >| do you want to delete this virus?
| >|
| >| I *did* delete it!
| >|
| >| Just found it a bit odd that a virus checker would have a virus!
| >|
| >| I am new to this newsgroup so any comments would be much appreciated.
| >|
| >| TIA
| >| --
| >| Jeni
| >
| >
|
| Thankyou for all your replies. Yes, it *was*
| Stinger.exe...sorry, my mistake.
|
| What was I doing at the time VCatch found "the virus"?
| I was simply downloading Stinger.exe! Nothing else.
|
| I have since visited Trend Micro as suggested and the result
| of the Housecall scan was:
|
| Congratulations! Housecall did not find any viruses etc.
|
| BTW last week I downloaded Avast! Which I thought looked
| very good and lots of you people had recommended it.
| Unfortunately, it didn't work with my Email Client,
| Turnpike, so I had to uninstall it. Although the Avast!
| People said I should alter certain things in the Registry, I
| feel this is an area I know nothing about, so didn't even
| attempt that!
|
| So what's the best thing to do now? Any suggestions
| please? Hope I've made myself clear. Thanks again for
| any help.
| --
| Jeni
