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My Antivirus warned me of a virus after I downloaded the demo project at http://www.codeproject.com/KB/applications/opensrcprot.aspx[^]

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rubenc

Posted 8-Nov-10 4:23am

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PSK_ 8-Nov-10 10:28am

You should post this in the dedicated forum present for that particular article you can find that in in the bottom section.

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2010-11-08T04:36:00

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Yep, mine says there is a trojan (Win32/Bumat!rts) in the .EXE file in the zip file too. I sugest that you also report this via the Site Bugs and Suggestions[^] forum so they can remove the offender.

Posted 8-Nov-10 4:36am

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Kythen · Answer 2 · 2010-11-08T08:54:00

Normally you would be absolutely correct in raising the alarm. However, in this case I suspect the anti-virus programs are being over-eager with their heuristics. Software protectors often use techniques to encrypt your program and prevent the use of debuggers. As you can imagine, viruses and malware want to achieve the same thing, so they use the same techniques. This results in anti-virus programs incorrectly flagging valid protection software as malicious. The download should be reviewed by more than just an anti-virus scan before being removed.

Thanks for keeping an eye out for everyone though! :)