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carbonize · **Posted:** Mon Apr 15, 2013 10:23 pm

At least according to the McAfee crap that got installed when I reinstalled Flash. What a crock.

guinness · **Joined:** Mon Aug 27, 2007 2:00 am **Posts:** 3720

Maybe a good example of what irony is perhaps?

joby_toss · **Posted:** Mon Apr 15, 2013 11:00 pm

http://safeweb.norton.com/report/show?u ... eeware.com

joby_toss · **Posted:** Mon Apr 15, 2013 11:08 pm

And here is their own quote:

Quote:

In our tests, we found a small fraction of downloads on this site that some people consider adware or other potentially unwanted programs.

http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/http%3 ... eeware.com

Don't trust security companies that give verdicts containing words like those bold ones from above!

And the file questioned by them is "ethereal.zip" http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/portab ... startat30/
@Andrew: please, check what's up with this.

carbonize · **Posted:** Mon Apr 15, 2013 11:24 pm

I'm just pissed that it didn't even warn me that it also installed this rubbish or even give me an option to not install it.

SYSTEM · **Posted:** Tue Apr 16, 2013 12:26 am

joby_toss wrote:

And here is their own quote:

Quote:

In our tests, we found a small fraction of downloads on this site that some people consider adware or other potentially unwanted programs.

http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/http%3 ... eeware.com

Don't trust security companies that give verdicts containing words like those bold ones from above!

And the file questioned by them is "ethereal.zip" http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/portab ... startat30/
@Andrew: please, check what's up with this.

I see McAfee complains about Ethereal. Ethereal is a PUP, because if the user doesn't know it's there, it might be used to sniff sensitive information.

However:

Hosting a PUP is not wrong. McAfee shouldn't flag an entire site for that.
Apparently Andrew removed ethereal.zip on August.

guinness · **Joined:** Mon Aug 27, 2007 2:00 am **Posts:** 3720

First time I have seen or heard of the term PUP!

Magibon · **Joined:** Thu Feb 24, 2011 4:24 pm **Posts:** 165

this is why i find Norton, McAfee and other AntiVirus Companies bogus.

instead of worrying about viruses, they have now gotten into the business of copyright.

i use many products that are 100% clean, but AntiViruses say otherwise.

Noobs may fall for it.. but only drive away experienced customers.

tproli · **Posted:** Tue Apr 16, 2013 1:10 am

But you're backed up with a hero

Midas · **Posted:** Tue Apr 16, 2013 2:35 am

Looks like the people at McAfee are just trying to keep themselves in business -- O, and it's sad to watch how low they've stooped... :evil:

I am Baas · **Joined:** Thu Aug 07, 2008 4:51 am **Posts:** 2583

tproli wrote:

But you're backed up with a hero

L0L

freakazoid · **Joined:** Wed Jul 18, 2007 5:45 pm **Posts:** 597

carbonize wrote:

At least according to the McAfee crap that got installed when I reinstalled Flash. What a crock.

McAfee has one of the worst UIs I've ever used. If you need to configure something, you have to drill through multiple screens in order to toggle a setting.

Quickly uninstalled. Am testing BitDefender at the moment. It's not too bad.

Banshee · **Joined:** Thu Jan 25, 2007 2:20 am **Posts:** 15

checking the report from mcafee site advisor:

"How does it modify my system?

In our tests, ethereal.zip did not make any changes to the system registry."

COOL, so now they are doing the stealth tests for us!

we should thank them for their help

joby_toss · **Posted:** Wed Apr 17, 2013 9:30 am

Nice one!

TenaciousD · **Joined:** Thu Nov 15, 2012 11:38 pm **Posts:** 31

Ethereal should be described as dangerous at all. It shouldn't even be a potentially unwanted program( PUP). Its the predecessor to the one of the most common network protocol analyzers or sniffers called Wireshark. Its more likely the user installed the program rather than some bad guy.
http://www.wireshark.org/

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