Comments on: uTorrent Marked as Trojan by Avast Antivirus

By: Masta

Masta — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 14:01:55 +0000

CA anti_Spy say UTorrent 1.81 has trojan too

By: Shroomey

Shroomey — Sun, 25 May 2008 03:18:24 +0000

I’ll stick to the utorrent 5.0 . I f I remember right BitTorrent Inc. owns uTorrent and hasn’t BitTorrent Inc. been cosey with RIAA. I’m good

By: ForYouToEnvy

ForYouToEnvy — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:19:22 +0000

AVG??? Iv tried AVG and and spybot S&D found loads of crap AVG missed…. not had any probs since i started using avast

By: » Avast detecta como troyano a uTorrent Software P2P Programas P2P Descargas P2P Gratis

Tue, 06 May 2008 21:47:27 +0000

[...] Avast detecta como troyano a uTorrent Muchos usuarios del mÃ¡s popular cliente torrent y a la par usuarios del antivirus gratuito Avast se veÃan sorprendidos porque Ã©ste lanzaba el falso positivo de catalogar a uTorrent como troyano de la categorÃa Win32-Poison-DU (Trj). Evidentemente dicho mensaje estÃ¡ muy lejos de la realizadad y los desarrolladores de uTorrent comunicaron a torrentfreak que se trata de un falso positivo de dicho antivirus y que uTorrent estÃ¡ lÃmpio y es seguro. Â En un principio la versiÃ³n de uTorrent afectada por dicho mensaje ha sido la 1.7.7. y afectÃ³ a muchos usuarios. Los desarrolladores comunicaron a Avast! el falso positivo y en menos de 5 horas estuvo corregido. El mensaje lanzado por Avast!, lo mostramos a continuaciÃ³n: Indudablemente este tipo de mensajes perjudican notoriamente a un programa, ya que se suele hacer caso a estos mensajes y genera desconfianza sobre el software que da el mensaje. AsÃ mismo, no cabe desconfiar el funcionamiento de Avast! ya que sigue tratÃ¡ndose de uno de los mejores antivirus gratuitos que hay en este gremio. En resumidas cuentas, si os habÃ©is visto afectados por dicho mensaje, no os preocupÃ©is y seguid usando tranquilamente uTorrent ya que es perfectamente seguroy estÃ¡ lÃmpio. Fuente: torrentfreak [...]

By: da fank

da fank — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:18:39 +0000

works fine here :)

By: YABRI

YABRI — Fri, 02 May 2008 14:50:14 +0000

Avira antivirus is THE BEST!!!!!!

By: SoftwareZone : Blog sobre Software con tutoriales de ayuda y noticias » Blog Archive Avast detecta como troyano a uTorrent »

Thu, 01 May 2008 04:49:16 +0000

[...] Fuente: torrentfreak [...]

By: in.cog.nito

in.cog.nito — Thu, 01 May 2008 02:45:55 +0000

@2 “Bob”
only faggots claim ‘first’

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:52:48 +0000

And they called me crazy for switching to Linux and using nTorrent.

By: Alley

Alley — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:03:26 +0000

Oh, right, and then AVG has tons of false positives lmao :P

By: xxx

xxx — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:27:57 +0000

[quote comment="362152"]Lol only fags use Avast[/quote]
yeah only fags, lames, BTW? AVAST SUCK!

By: Erevos

Erevos — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:51:59 +0000

Maybe the so called “trojan” is the web service interface capabilities?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:44:39 +0000

use bitlord smart asses

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:43:59 +0000

Fuck you all, avast is great.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:41:14 +0000

[quote comment="362191"]
avast – sucks hard

AVG – f=-ound my keylogger , medium resources , and blah blah .. it rocks.[/quote]

You’re reasoning for Avast! is vastly descriptive… In my experience, Avast! is the only AV client that can be effectively used as active protection, as it’s resource requirements are very minimal. Never had any false positives with it, never had anything get by it.

I’d like to see the system you run AVG on… I’ve tried AVG on several systems, and it can make a dual-core with 2GB RAM crawl…

By: great googley moogley

great googley moogley — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:02:33 +0000

should have been on a mac..

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:44:44 +0000

[quote comment="362088"]Yay, first.

I really have nothing to add to the article though. Glad the problem was fixed.[/quote]

no your second …

By: ejonesss

ejonesss — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:44:07 +0000

this may be the work of the aa’s since to the aa’s utorrent is a piracy tool and it is possible that avast is reading an older virus revived in a legit file.

remember the sony cd copy protection bit?

in the sony cd copy protection a file was written that masked it’s self as a cd rom driver and attempting to remove it disabled the drive or something like it.

well it looks like the aa’s may be up to a similar trick by they released a virus a while back and called it by the same name as one of the dll’s or something from the utorrrent resources praying on user’s fears in hopes that anti virus programs will delete the program in an attempt to stop piracy.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:17:59 +0000

#45 LLLLOOOLLL, pure gold!

By: Restero

Restero — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:29:06 +0000

Why is it always Ernesto who blows unprocessed sugar up uTorrents ass?
Reference: http://torrentfreak.com/p2p-statistics-080426/

Something is wacky with this guy. First he argues: “obviously uTorrent is the most popular Bittorrent Client”

now he says: “Of course, there is nothing wrong with uTorrent.”

Angain without any proof whatsoever. In case you want to create a Torjan Horse without given proof that you did, you simply introduce a vulnerability that allows a 3rd party to get information useable in a court of what you have on your computer :)

Please Ernesto, you are getting more and more ridiculous. You didn’t question once if there may be a problem. I cannot believe this is happening.

TorrentFreak is infiltrated by RIAA and the movie industry?

By: Wired

Wired — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:23:31 +0000

@14yearold
LOL you think AVG is a good antivirus program and NOD32 sucks? Pull your head out of your ass.

By: pja4008

pja4008 — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:50:03 +0000

There tests were based on virus detection,system resources,and how fast they update.

By: pja4008

pja4008 — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:46:34 +0000

Consumer reports rated Kaspersky zone alarm and trend micro the best and avg was at the end of the list I’ll go with a non-profit org. that does extensive testing

By: RIAA CEO

RIAA CEO — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:40:06 +0000

HAHA my email of concern to Avast worked. They believed me and accepted my generous donation.

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:39:44 +0000

[quote comment="362123"]@bob
ur second u dick.[/quote]
Yeah… I got all excited when there was a brand-new article and didn’t refresh.

By: dimwittedconsumer

dimwittedconsumer — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:17:09 +0000

Best way to avoid viruses? Buy shit.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:13:52 +0000

[quote comment="362207"]you are all overweight windows users. get lives, put down the sandwich and get a mac.[/quote]

yes, we should all buy an overpriced, un-upgradable, dumbed-down, wanna-be pc with bloated software only available at a special overpriced store.

By: SID

SID — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:08:32 +0000

Comodo AV said the Fraps.exe has a trojan, no matter what version, I dl’d a couple of diferent versionce from diferent cources.

Sorry for the crap spelling!

By: anon

anon — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:05:39 +0000

[quote comment="362152"]Lol only fags use Avast[/quote]
so true nod32 ftw

By: Oops

Oops — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:42:10 +0000

[quote comment="362422"]WTF flagging the most used bittorrent client as a trojan LOL. Minus sales for the AVAST turds ![/quote]

Problem! Avast home edition is free.

By: uTorrent Marked as Trojan by Avast Antivirus | Don't Copy That Floppy

uTorrent Marked as Trojan by Avast Antivirus | Don't Copy That Floppy — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:32:39 +0000

[...] Source: TorrentFreak [...]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:03:11 +0000

[quote comment="362330"][quote comment="362152"]Lol only fags use Avast[/quote]
Only fags download copyrightin material.[/quote]

ok, i will responde, in anger, brainless, to some wannabe weekend internet warrior…..or not. long live the pirate bay.

By: SID

SID — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:01:06 +0000

False positives happenes (sp?) all the time.

Comodo
Icesword
Gmer
Avast
Etc, etc.

By: Hello!

Hello! — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:49:05 +0000

WTF flagging the most used bittorrent client as a trojan LOL. Minus sales for the AVAST turds !

By: SID

SID — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:28:39 +0000

Meh, just a false positive.

By: tux

tux — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:09:36 +0000

lol get better anti virus.. avg or nothing….!!!! who ever made that antivirus should maybe fix it!

By: Android

Android — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:56:27 +0000

[quote comment="362152"]Lol only fags use Avast[/quote]
Only fags download copyrightin material.

By: zarathustra

zarathustra — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:32:49 +0000

+1 for AVG ;)

By: someone

someone — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:04:47 +0000

fix the typo, form to from :D

By: Lachtan

Lachtan — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:56:14 +0000

Avast sucks, but I’m still using it.
You just gotta know what kind of file you just scanned and also download source of that file.
When you are aware of these you can stay calm…

By: stuckmoto

stuckmoto — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:51:34 +0000

You can get version 1.6.1 @ filehippo.com.

AVG will spot some apps as trojans, but I think it’s the best free one.
McAfee – Norton – NOD32 – AVAST = tried them all -
YES they do suck!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:38:57 +0000

Thanks for the non-news.

By: Rycon

Rycon — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:25:18 +0000

best antivirus is no antivirus.. only noobs get viruses.

seriously im not kidding.

if your comp gets fucked then its useless to try and repair it anyway, its still always going to be fucked up in some weird way. Sure alot of viruses can be fixed and cleaned, but sooner or later it just gets fucked up and its faster to reformat then figure out what the hell is wrong.

sadly, with windows systems, reformat is always the best choice. you can get it so fast now you can reformat a computer to a complete backup in under 10 mins.

Hirens + fast USB + ghost image = fast recovery

By: Tard SPNAKer!

Tard SPNAKer! — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:13:21 +0000

[quote comment="362217"][quote comment="362204"][quote comment="362178"]NOD32 is so much better and it doesnt hog your resources like a lot of others…[/quote]
Yeah, NOD32 is also the best to use with uTorrent. I’ve used AVG and I never got a good connection; DHT also made a lot of trouble. Since I’m using NOD32, my connection is always green and the download speed is improved :)[/quote]

avg doesnt manage your firewall so whats that gotta do with your connect?[/quote]

Nothing. He’s a tard…

By: Merkin

Merkin — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:12:24 +0000

[quote comment="362177"]
[...]all the Bittorrent’s clients are pure shit.
[...] I prefer Azureus.[/quote]

… which you yourself have just called “pure shit” – congratulations.

Autolame Grade: B-

(What is this – fuckhead day on TF?)

By: Dubya Doofus

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Fuck off with the spam, cunter…

By: Strontium Dog

Strontium Dog — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:08:54 +0000

[quote comment="362088"]Yay, first.

I really have nothing to add to the article though. Glad the problem was fixed.[/quote]

Dimbulb wanker…

By: SEAKING

SEAKING — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:59:19 +0000

You would think a program named Avast would not be AGAINST piracy.

i mean srsly.

Isnt that leik the only thing pirates say??

AVAST YE MAITEE!!!

By: Yatti

Yatti — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:49:54 +0000

I doubt ÂµTorrent has any type of malware\spyware.. Spybot certainly doesn’t pick it up..

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