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I just recently updated my Beta and Scite 3/4 days ago and since then my virus scan has deleted all my compiled scripts... ( normal... even the older exe's ), however this time it is after the SciTE Updatedefs.exe

AVG Antivirus V

File Ver 7.1.0.394 6/12/2006

Autoit Beta Ver 3.1.1.126

SciTE Ver 1.69

6/2/2006

*** Updated installer with SciTE v1.69.

*** Updated Beta definitions to AutoIt3 v 3.1.1.125.

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I just recently updated my Beta and Scite 3/4 days ago and since then my virus scan has deleted all my compiled scripts... ( normal... even the older exe's ), however this time it is after the SciTE Updatedefs.exe

AVG Antivirus V

File Ver 7.1.0.394 6/12/2006

Autoit Beta Ver 3.1.1.126

SciTE Ver 1.69

always fun

8)

wow, I was just talking to a friend about something like this. Does this mean that someone use autoit to write a virus/Trogen and antivirus companies see it to be autoit not the individual exe?

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All of your compiled scripts? That must be very annoying!

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avast! says to is no viruses at AutoIt.exe, I checked yesterday whole PC.

What is virus name?

i542

I use avast! and ClamWin no issues so far.

I have had one instance with avast, but it was quickly taken care of and it didnt delete all my files.

wow, I was just talking to a friend about something like this. Does this mean that someone use autoit to write a virus/Trogen and antivirus companies see it to be autoit not the individual exe?

Yes that is the case. Or they are just blocking the UPX part of an autoit exe.

JS

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I just finished a full scan of my computer. I also use AVG. I am completely up to date on everything. UpdateDefs.exe was flagged as being a generic trojan horse just like for Valuator. Looks like this could be the beginning of the end...

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I just finished a full scan of my computer. I also use AVG. I am completely up to date on everything. UpdateDefs.exe was flagged as being a generic trojan horse just like for Valuator. Looks like this could be the beginning of the end...

Pessimism is as non-healthy for a community as actually writing some of those apps that cause this type of stuff.

Common sense plays a role in the basics of understanding AutoIt... If you're lacking in that, do us all a favor, and step away from the computer.

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Will recompile it with the latest version for the next release......

You can do the same with the au3 file in the Defs subdir if you need to update the files to the latest Beta defs...

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Pessimism is as non-healthy for a community as actually writing some of those apps that cause this type of stuff.

Then could you tell me what the optimistic side of this would be? Because I don't see it. All I see is that my programs are potentially going to start getting flagged as a virus, and it pisses me off. :D

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Then could you tell me what the optimistic side of this would be? Because I don't see it. All I see is that my programs are potentially going to start getting flagged as a virus, and it pisses me off. :P

Well, I think you know my standing on those types of issues, I'm none the happier than you. But, If you notice that just a bit after you posted the pessimistic post, that Jdeb had a solution (as I knew he would... is why I posted it... He's always on top of SciTe). I'm just saying that you've posted some good posts/help/scripts, and that tends to have people look up to you, then unbeknownst (<< did I spell that right? :D ) to you, now you have a forum responsibility you didn't ask for or maybe even want. And when you talk negative like that, some could take it literally. We all can only do "our" part to keep the integrity of AutoIt/SciTe safe from harms way, but that part could have massive results positive or negative. That's all I meant (all I meant, I typed a damn dissertation :D ).

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My grammar sucks!

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Then could you tell me what the optimistic side of this would be? Because I don't see it. All I see is that my programs are potentially going to start getting flagged as a virus, and it pisses me off. :D

One lesson I've learned over time is to try not to worry/"get frustrated"/"get mad" about stuff that is out of your control and not really personal to you. Just work around it and move on ....

Its not always simple but in this case its part of today's IT world were we have ppl that find pleasure to screw others with their weird ideas put into programs. You could have some respect for the early virus writers since they were REAL programmer. These days is so simple with all the macro languages, that any scriptkiddy, just relieved from his diapers, can write one...

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Yeah, you guys are right. I just really enjoy using AutoIt and so I take things a little too personally sometimes. I'll try to keep the negativity to a minimum about these issues. Thanks for the adjustment. :D

Nomad :D

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ewido tried this a month ago, i have norton but never any problem, except some c++ files . i hardly ever compile scripts anyways, but ewido goes crazy when i scan my computer especially with vb files, the trick is to password protect the files, or put them in exclude lists.. or not scan as much as you should :D

it's rediculous to blacklist autoit since most viruses are made in vb/c#/asm.. might as well blacklist anything that moves..

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This is why everyone should refuse to help any potential malicious coders. :D

I see that a bit later in this thread you had an "adjustment"... that's probably best for your blood pressure. :-)

I wanted to make sure that you took note of the post where JSThePatriot mentions, "Or they are just blocking the UPX part of an autoit exe".

As I understand it, AVG (and a few other AV companies) find a virus/trojan/whatever that was packed with UPX... then they mark all files touched by this tool regardless of what the actual script does. So, you could have a compiled script with just one line: Sleep(111) and when compiled, it would be marked as bad. [i've actually done that.]

I've spent some time in the AVG forums (before I abandoned AVG in favor of avast). I cannot be sure, but it seems that whenever AVG finds any bad file that was packed with UPX - it marks all files packed with that version of UPX. In other words, a file written in a "language" other than AutoIt, but packed with UPX can trigger false positives for all AutoIt files.

http://forum.grisoft.cz/freeforum/read.php...24757#msg-24757

http://forum.grisoft.cz/freeforum/read.php...70252#msg-70252

If you jump thru all of the hoops that AVG requires for submitting a "false positive" then they will respond quickly... but, if my assumptions stated above are correct, then they way that they mark files as bad is - well - bad.

None of this is directed at you per se - it is just that you mentioned "malicious coders" and I wanted you (and others) to see that even if you cleaned the entire forum of all code - good and bad - this problem will still happen until AVG changes its detection methods.

Caveat to all of the above - I could be wrong about AVG's detection method... I did not get an answer from them when I posed this question to them directly some time back. Perhaps they don't discuss such things with parties unkown to them.

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I see that a bit later in this thread you had an "adjustment"... that's probably best for your blood pressure. :-)

I wanted to make sure that you took note of the post where JSThePatriot mentions, "Or they are just blocking the UPX part of an autoit exe".

As I understand it, AVG (and a few other AV companies) find a virus/trojan/whatever that was packed with UPX... then they mark all files touched by this tool regardless of what the actual script does. So, you could have a compiled script with just one line: Sleep(111) and when compiled, it would be marked as bad. [i've actually done that.]

I've spent some time in the AVG forums (before I abandoned AVG in favor of avast). I cannot be sure, but it seems that whenever AVG finds any bad file that was packed with UPX - it marks all files packed with that version of UPX. In other words, a file written in a "language" other than AutoIt, but packed with UPX can trigger false positives for all AutoIt files.

http://forum.grisoft.cz/freeforum/read.php...24757#msg-24757

http://forum.grisoft.cz/freeforum/read.php...70252#msg-70252

If you jump thru all of the hoops that AVG requires for submitting a "false positive" then they will respond quickly... but, if my assumptions stated above are correct, then they way that they mark files as bad is - well - bad.

None of this is directed at you per se - it is just that you mentioned "malicious coders" and I wanted you (and others) to see that even if you cleaned the entire forum of all code - good and bad - this problem will still happen until AVG changes its detection methods.

Caveat to all of the above - I could be wrong about AVG's detection method... I did not get an answer from them when I posed this question to them directly some time back. Perhaps they don't discuss such things with parties unkown to them.

Sorry, I've been offline. I'm not saying that you are wrong, but I have a question in regards to your post. The file that has been detected as a trojan was installed by SciTe. So it's been there since my last SciTe update. If it were packed with UPX and that's why it's being flagged, then why wouldn't it have flagged a false positive at the first scan I did after a fresh install instead of waiting until now?

This is a serious question, I'd really like to know.

Nomad :D

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From what ive noticed its in the exe compiler of scite.

:D there is no "Exe compiler" in SciTE... SciTE is an Editor that is used as a shell around the available utilities. If you mean aut2exe.exe, that comes with the AutoIt3 installer ..... Edited by JdeB

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