I have NIS 2009 installed on my computer and for some reason (after downloading the latest antivirus signatures, I guess), it started recognizing MD v3.7 as a virus (Win32.Induc.A) and deleting it every time I tried to install or use it.
NIS 2009 is very light on system resources, but it is also one hell of a job to configure it and I have not been able to find out how to add the executable of MD to the exceptions...
Please, help!
Yours sincerely,
PTs
Not only NIS, but AVG and Avast too. It seems that there is a new heuristc being used by AV programs that identifies mass downloader as a virus.
A fix should be really nice, I had to uninstall MD from my home and work computer, since AVG (at work) and Avast (at home) were being really annoying about this.
Regards,
Thiago Souza
> Dear Sirs,
>
> I have NIS 2009 installed on my computer and for some reason (after downloading the latest antivirus signatures, I guess), it started recognizing MD v3.7 as a virus (Win32.Induc.A) and deleting it every time I tried to install or use it.
>
> NIS 2009 is very light on system resources, but it is also one hell of a job to configure it and I have not been able to find out how to add the executable of MD to the exceptions...
>
> Please, help!
>
> Yours sincerely,
> PTs
The current version of Mass Downloader published at our site is virus-free. Please download it from our site and install.
Best regards,
Alexander Bednyakov
MP Staff
That ain''t the problem, at least with me. I installed MD and had been using it for months. And than suddenly, after recent AV program updates (AVG and Avast), it became a virus. This is obviously a false-positive. To double-check this, I uninstalled it, downloaded from official metaproducts site and reinstalled. But this didn''t solve the problema.
Rergads,
Thiago Souza
> Thank you for writing us.
>
> The current version of Mass Downloader published at our site is virus-free. Please download it from our site and install.
>
> Best regards,
> Alexander Bednyakov
> MP Staff
Please download Mass Downloader from our site. It is clean.
Regards,
Alexander
http://www.avira.de/en/threats/section/fulldetails/id_vir/4524/w32_induc.a.html
After doing a clean re-install of Massdownloader. Avira AV still identified 'massdown.exe' as being infected with virus W32/Induc.A, so this is certainly a false positive.
In any version of Avira AV, there is an option to exclude any file or directory from scanning:
In the main window of Avira AV, go to "Extras" - "Preferences (F8)" - activate "Expert Mode" - select "Scanner" - select "Exceptions" - navigate to "Program Files\MassDownloader\massdown.exe" - accept this into "Exceptions" and repeat the same procedure for "Guard", and that's it.
AlexanderBa,
MP Staff.