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Old 11-26-2008   #1 (permalink)


Vista Ultimate x64 SP1
 
 

OpenAL + Kaspersky Anti-Virus = riskware

Anyone know why Kaspersky Anti-Virus sees the lastest version of Creative Labs' OpenAL (oalinst.exe) as malware/riskware?

I had on old copy of openal and it was detected as malware/riskware, so I re-downloaded it from Creative Labs' website here: Home - OpenAL, and it too gives the same warning under Kaspersky Anti-Virus 7.

I use 3DMark06 under vista64 and it requires the latest version of OpenAL to run.

Anyone else seen this? Is it cause for concern?

Thanks

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Old 11-27-2008   #2 (permalink)


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Re: OpenAL + Kaspersky Anti-Virus = riskware

Its doubtful openal would have anything. Add it to your excempts.
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Old 11-27-2008   #3 (permalink)


Vista Ultimate x64 SP1
 
 

Re: OpenAL + Kaspersky Anti-Virus = riskware

Thanks,

That's exactly what I did.
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Old 11-28-2008   #4 (permalink)


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Re: OpenAL + Kaspersky Anti-Virus = riskware

Can you please post a picture of the alert that pops up near the clock. It would be much more useful to find out why Kaspersky detected it as malicious... I personally am interested.
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Old 11-28-2008   #5 (permalink)


Vista Ultimate x64 SP1
 
 

Re: OpenAL + Kaspersky Anti-Virus = riskware

Quote  Quote: Originally Posted by Zyonix View Post
Can you please post a picture of the alert that pops up near the clock. It would be much more useful to find out why Kaspersky detected it as malicious... I personally am interested.
kaspersky-notification.jpg

Here you go. The warnings by the red arrow are are the same and listed below:

"11/26/2008 12:43:20 PM Running process E:\BENCHMARKS\OALINST.EXE: detected modification of riskware 'Worm.P2P.generic'."

The locations are where the file was downloaded to and exercuted from.

I basically added it to my safe zone.

Last edited by sygnus21; 11-28-2008 at 01:12 PM..
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Old 11-28-2008   #6 (permalink)


Microsoft® Windows Vista® Ultimate x64 SP1
 
 

Re: OpenAL + Kaspersky Anti-Virus = riskware

Have you ran full scan lately...

Remember, certain worms can infect the mot innocent files during the transfer... Any P2P worm is extremely dangerous... so now I'm worried.
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Old 11-29-2008   #7 (permalink)


Vista Ultimate x64 SP1
 
 

Re: OpenAL + Kaspersky Anti-Virus = riskware

Ok...
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