OpenAL + Kaspersky Anti-Virus = riskware

sygnus21

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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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Its doubtful openal would have anything. Add it to your excempts.
 

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Thanks,

That's exactly what I did.
 

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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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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.
 
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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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Ok...
 

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    Graphics Card(s)
    ATI Radeon HD 4890 (1GHz)
    Sound Card
    X-Fi Titanium - Fatality Pro Series
    Monitor(s) Displays
    hp w2207h (22" widescreen)
    Screen Resolution
    1680 x 1050
    Hard Drives
    One 750GB, 2x500GB Western Digital Caviar Black Hard Drives (32meg)
    PSU
    Antec Neo HE 550
    Case
    Antec P182
    Cooling
    Zalman CNPS9500 AT
    Keyboard
    Logitech Wireless Wave
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    Logitech MX Revolution
    Internet Speed
    "High" Speed DSL? Is that like low speed FIOS?
    Other Info
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