False positive with Ewido, or built in virus with Spamnix?

[jlockley]

After picking up something nasty I followed the spyware faq and downloaded a couple of programs including EWIDO. Ewido picked out quite a few cookies, a reg entry or two, one minor worm in an unused email box and supposedly not_a_virus.joker.something in spamnix.exe.

I erased spamnix, causing an error or two, then went to reinstall it over original program, so as not to change the filters already built in. Immediately Ewido identifies not_a_virus etc in Spamnix.exe again. While it is possible that spamnix.exe contains a virus, I find it doubtful. Other experience with this?

 

[BadBigBen]

Hi there,

I am not familiar with Spamnix, but it could be that Ewido recognizes the 'not_a_Virus.joke' definition in Spamnix and thus reports it as a possible problem... had something similiar happen on another machine with a totally diff OS and two Virus Checkers (one which kept copies of the Viruses in a quaranteen folder)...



Ben

If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer...

 

[jlockley]

That makes sense. Dumb sense, but sense. Thanks. Norton doesn't miss much. Ewido is toast. Thank you very much.

 

[devastator]

Makes sense for false positives. Ad-Aware use to do the same thing to Spybot Search and Destroy.