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Universal Extractor 1.6.1 build 66 by Gora; virus ?!?

Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 10:00 am
by smallhagrid
I got the latest version from:
http://forum.oszone.net/post-1868252.html
And fooled it into extracting elsewhere than C: .
Since Gora apparently uses Autoit for this, NOD32 had a fit and wants to delete his newer Uextract.exe .
Does anyone here know for sure that it is harmless ?!?
If so I can exclude it (I hope...) and just FYI, I checked Virustotal and it says this about it:
https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/913e ... /analysis/

This worries me a little bit so I'm going to keep using the older version for now.

Thanks.

Re: Universal Extractor 1.6.1 build 66 by Gora; virus ?!?

Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 11:23 am
by Midas
I've been using the latest (updated) versions with both Sentinel/ClamAV an MS Security Essentials, complemented with the freeware WinPatrol and never ever had any trouble. I guess it's yet another hit of the age old AutoIt script false positives, since the only reputable anti-malware flagging it is precisely Nod, and two out of the four VirusTotal positives mention it expressly...

Re: Universal Extractor 1.6.1 build 66 by Gora; virus ?!?

Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 12:06 pm
by guinness
Other coding languages can create exes that are flagged as Viruses too.